In 1660, England was a cultural wasteland. Historian John Brewer charts the growth of the literary and artistic milieus later amplified in cofeehouses, libraries, pleasure gardens, and theaters. Brewer offers a radical reconsideration of the roots of modernity in a crucial century poised between the old ways and the new world to come. of color plates. 240 b&w illustrations.
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In 1660, England was a cultural wasteland. Historian John Brewer charts the growth of the literary and artistic milieus later amplified in cofeehouses, libraries, pleasure gardens, and theaters. Brewer offers a radical reconsideration of the roots of modernity in a crucial century poised between the old ways and the new world to come. of color plates. 240 b&w illustrations.
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