{"product_id":"the-golden-thread-vol-2-part-2-9781641775922","title":"The Golden Thread Vol 2 Part 2","description":"As the Renaissance ended in Europe, the Western\nworld experienced a long series of cataclysmic\nevents that still reverberate in modern\nsociety. The Golden Thread, Volume II: The Modern and\nContemporary West, by Allen C. Guelzo, explores those\nevents and traces their consequences up through the\ntwentieth century.\nThe volume begins in 1500 when the Protestant\nReformation ended the Roman Catholic Church’s\ndominance over European states. It then turns to the\nswift rise of European imperial powers and to the\nexplosion of the intellectual, economic, and technological\nadvancements of the Enlightenment.\nThese were moments of flourishing in Western\ncivilization, but also moments of uncertainty. They\nportended the violent upheavals that shook continental\nEurope and the Americas during the American, French,\nand Bolívarian Revolutions as well as the Napoleonic\nWars. The Industrial Revolution, the Romantic revolt\nagainst the Enlightenment, and a second wave of scientific\nadvancement in the nineteenth century all challenged any\nattempt to restore the classical unity of the West. A\nradically redrawn world emerged from these developments,\none that was ill-prepared for the colossal physical\nand moral shocks of the First and Second World Wars.\nIn closing, the volume examines how Western\ncivilization has, in our own time, remained remarkably\nresilient in the face of secular totalitarianisms, laying the\nfoundations for material prosperity around the globe.\nVolume II engages with the most significant questions\nfacing the West today.\nThe Golden Thread is a two-volume history of the\nWestern tradition. Volume I is authored by James Hankins;\nVolume II, covering the modern and contemporary West,\nis authored by Allen C. Guelzo.\nAllen C. Guelzo is the Thomas W. Smith Distinguished\nResearch Scholar in the James Madison Program\nat Princeton University. He is the best-selling author,\nmost recently, of Our Ancient Faith: Lincoln, Democracy,\nand the American Experiment. He is a three-time winner\nof the Lincoln Prize.","brand":"Allen C. Guelzo","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":68287793627387,"sku":"9781641775922","price":80.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/indiepubs.com\/products\/the-golden-thread-vol-2-part-2-9781641775922","provider":"IndiePubs","version":"1.0","type":"link"}