Table of Contents:
“…Introduction -- A civil servant -- The summer time of wit -- An uncivil rebel -- The modern Tacitus -- The Deane Affair -- State clerk and diplomatic agent -- A bonus, a bank, and a bridge -- A political bridge -- The rights of man -- A republican manifesto for France -- The revolution of the world -- Continuation of the rights of man -- Where liberty is not -- The rights of man on trial -- A king on trial -- A firebrand on trial -- In Luxembourg Prison -- Return to the convention -- The age of reason -- Friendship with Monroe -- Amateur diplomat once more -- Relations with the directory -- Baltimore and Washington -- New Rochelle and New York -- Jarvis and Carpenter -- The defense of New York -- Feud with Cheetham -- Last days -- Recapitulation.…”
London : Phaidon Press Limited, 1995 Sixteenth edition (revised expanded and redesigned).
Table of Contents:
“…Introduction: On arts and artists -- Strange beginnings : prehistoric and primitive peoples; Ancient America -- Art for eternity : Egypt, Mesopotamia, Crete -- The great awakening : Greece, seventh to fifth century BC -- The realm of beauty : Greece and the Greek world, fourth century BC to first century AD -- World conquerors : Romans, Buddhists, Jews and Christians, first to fourth century AD -- A parting of ways : Rome and Byzantium, fifth to thirteenth century -- Looking eastwards : Islam, China, second to thirteenth century -- Western art in the melting pot : Europe, sixth to eleventh century -- The church militant : the twelfth century -- The church triumphant : the thirteenth century -- Courtiers and burghers : the fourteenth century -- The conquest of reality : the early fifteenth century -- Tradition and innovation I : the later fifteenth century in Italy -- Traditions and innovation II : the fifteenth century in the North -- Harmony attained : Tuscany and Rome, early sixteenth century -- Light and colour : Venice and northern Italy, early sixteenth century -- The new learning spreads : Germany and the Netherlands, early sixteenth century -- A crisis of art : Europe, later sixteenth century -- Vision and visions : Catholic Europe, first half of the seventeenth century -- The mirror of nature : Holland, seventeenth century -- Power and glory I : Italy, later seventeenth and eighteenth centuries -- Power and glory II : France, Germany and Austria, late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries -- The age of reason : England and France, eighteenth century -- The break in tradition : England, America and France, late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries -- Permanent revolution : the nineteenth century -- In search of new standards : the late nineteenth century -- Experimental art : the first half of the twentieth century -- A story without end: The triumph of modernism ; Another turning of the tide ; The changing past.…”