The Age of Cultural Revolutions

A collection of essays by leading figures in history and literature on a key period in the making of the modern West.

Colin Jones, Professor of History at Warwick University, is author most recently of France (1999) and coauthor of The Medical World of Early Modern France (with Laurence Brockliss, 1997). Dror Wahrman is Associate Professor of History at Indiana University, Associate Editor of the American Historical Review, and author of Imagining the Middle Class: The Political Representation of Class in Britain, c. 1780-1840 (1995) and the forthcoming A Cultural History of the Modern Self.