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From the bestselling author of Modern Times, A History of the Jews, and Intellectuals, a provocative, challenging, and readable history of 15 years that laid the foundations of the modern world. The period after Waterloo (1815-1830), traditionally viewed as an Age of Reaction,... Read Full Overview

Distinguished historian Paul Johnson--author of the bestselling and critically hailed Modern Times and A History of the Jews--offers his provocative view that the so-called "Age of Reaction" was actually a period of new ideas, inventions, and great technological advances, and... Read Full Overview