The Age of Reason Begins is the seventh volume of The Story of Civilization and the first to name Ariel Durant beside her husband on the title page. Published in 1961, it is subtitled A History of European Civilization in the Period of Shakespeare, Bacon, Montaigne, Rembrandt, Galileo, and Descartes: 1558-1648, and it spans the ninety years between Elizabeth I's accession and the Peace of Westphalia.
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The Age of Louis XIV is the eighth volume of The Story of Civilization and the second to carry Ariel Durant's name on the title page beside her husband's. Published in 1963, it covers Europe from the Peace of Westphalia in 1648 to the death of Louis XIV in 1715, and its subtitle names the figures around whom the Durants organize the period: Pascal, Molière, Cromwell, Milton, Peter the Great, Newton and Spinoza.
The Age of Voltaire is the ninth volume of The Story of Civilization, written by Will and Ariel Durant and published in 1965. Its subtitle, A History of Civilization in Western Europe from 1715 to 1756, with Special Emphasis on the Conflict between Religion and Philosophy, states both its span and its organizing theme.
Rousseau and Revolution is the tenth volume of The Story of Civilization, published in 1967 by Will and Ariel Durant and awarded the Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction in 1968. Its subtitle describes an unusual double frame: the history of France, England and Germany from 1756, and of the rest of Europe from 1715, to 1789.
The Age of Napoleon, published in 1975, is the eleventh and last volume of The Story of Civilization by Will and Ariel Durant. Subtitled A History of European Civilization from 1789 to 1815, it covers the French Revolution, the career of Napoleon Bonaparte, and the culture of Europe during the quarter century of war that ended at Waterloo.