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020			_a9780060175863 (hardcover)
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040			_aDLC _cDLC _beng _dAE-DuAU
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050	0	0	_aCB245.B365 2000
090			_aCB 245 .B365 2000
100	1		_aBarzun, Jacques, _d1907- _969804 _eauthor.
245	1	0	_aFrom dawn to decadence : _b500 years of western cultural triumph and defeat, 1500 to the present / _cby Jacques Barzun.
250			_aFirst edition.
264			_aNew York : _bHarperCollins, _c2000
300			_axviii , 877 pages : _billustrations ; _c23 cm.
336			_2rdacontent _atext _btxt
337			_2rdamedia _aunmediated _bn
338			_2rdacarrier _avolume _bnc
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
520			_aHighly regarded here and abroad for some thirty works of cultural history and criticism, master historian Jacques Barzun has now set down in one continuous narrative the sum of his discoveries and conclusions about the whole of Western culture since 1500.In this account, Barzun describes what Western Man wrought from the Renaissance and Reformation down to the present in the double light of its own time and our pressing concerns. He introduces characters and incidents with his usual literary style and grace, bringing to the fore those that have been forgotten or obscured. His compelling chapters--such as "Puritans as Democrats," "The Monarchs' Revolution," "The Artist Prophet and Jester"--show the recurrent role of great themes throughout the eras.
520	8		_aThe triumphs and defeats of five hundred years form an inspiring saga that modifies the current impression of one long tale of oppression by white European males. Women and their deeds are prominent, and freedom (even in sexual matters) is not an invention of the last decades. And when Barzun rates the present not as a culmination but a decline, he is in no way a prophet of doom. Instead, he shows decadence as the normal close of great periods and a necessary condition of the creative novelty that will burst forth--tomorrow or the next day.
520	8		_aOnly after a lifetime of separate studies covering a broad territory could a writer create with such ease the synthesis displayed in this magnificent volume.
650		0	_aCivilization, Western. _969805
650		0	_aLearning and scholarship _xHistory. _969806
651		0	_aEurope _xIntellectual life. _969807
651		0	_aEurope _xCivilization. _969808
942			_cBOOK _2lcc
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