A History of Private Life, Volume IV: From the Fires of Revolution to the Great WarThe nineteenth century was the golden age of private life, a time when the tentative self consciousness of the Renaissance and earlier eras took recognizable form, and the supreme individual, with a political, scientific, and above all existential value, emerged. The present book, fourth in the popular series, chronicles this development from the tumult of the French Revolution to the outbreak of World War I a century and a quarter of rapid,