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Immediate dispatch from Somerset. Nice book in great condition. Pages in excellent unused condition. No notes or highlighting. Box has some wear and marking. See images. Fantastic book.

About the book >.>.> Although my initial question has escaped an answer the interest of the period itself – a violent tormented bewildered suffering and disintegrat- ing age a time as many thought of Satan triumphant – was compelling and as it seemed to me consoling in a period of similar disarray. If our last decade or two of collapsing assumptions has been a period of unusual dis- comfort it is reassuring to know that the human species has lived through worse before. Curiously the ‘phenomenal parallels’ have been applied by another historian to earlier years of this century. Comparing the aftermaths of the Black Death and of World War I James Westfall Thompson found all the same complaints: economic chaos social unrest high prices profiteering. depraved morals lack of production industrial indolence frenetic gaiety wild expenditure luxury debauchery social and religious hysteria greed. avarice maladministration decay of manners. ‘History never repeats itself’ said Voltaire; ‘man always does. (OS)