Originally published by Houghton Mifflin in 1977, this provocative study is based on the idea that current Third World problems of modernization may be able to shed light on the period of European history from roughly 1770 to 1870. Includes extensive charts and maps. An indispensable teaching book. There is no comparable treatment of both social and intellectual in the period.>>>> (Joseph L. Walsh) ...lucid, informative, and new in perspective.>>>> (Allen Howard) ...lucid, informative, and new in perspective. (Allen Howard) An indispensable teaching book. There is no comparable treatment of both social and intellectual in the period. (Joseph L. Walsh) John R. Gillis is Professor of History at Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, in New Brunswick. Used Book in Good Condition