A History of Private Life, Vol. 4: From the Fires of Revolution to the Great War

This anthology of images depicting the nineteenth century's movement into the "golden age of private life," is one of a series on the history of private life, the notion of the individual, with political, scientific and existential values. This book chronicles this development from the tumult of the French Revolution to the outbreak of World War I, with three chapters of historical background and numerous images of the time in question.