TY - BOOK AU - Zakaria, Fareed. TI - Age of Revolutions: progress and backlash from 1600 to the present SN - 9780393239232 U1 - 303.64 PY - 2024/// CY - New York PB - Norton and Company KW - Revolutions N1 - Includes index N2 - In this major work, Fareed Zakaria masterfully investigates the eras and movements that have shaken norms while shaping the modern world. Three such periods hold profound lessons for today. First, in the seventeenth-century Netherlands, a fascinating series of transformations made that tiny land the richest in the world―and created politics as we know it today. Next, the French Revolution, an explosive era that devoured its ideological children and left a bloody legacy that haunts us today. Finally, the mother of all revolutions, the Industrial Revolution, which catapulted Great Britain and the US to global dominance and created the modern world ER -