Modern Age : Ideas of Western Civililization

by Arthur Haberman

Paperback

Published January 1, 1987

About the author

Arthur Haberman is University Professor Emeritus of History and Humanities at York University. He is the author of The Making of the Modern Age, and the co-author of Private Lives/Impressionism and Post-Impressionism and The West and the World: Contacts, Conflicts, Connections. He is also the editor and senior author of Civilizations: A Cultural Atlas and the editor or co-editor of three anthologies. Most recently, he is the author of 1930: Europe in the Shadow of the Beast, published in September 2018.

Arthur Haberman has done extensive work for the National Humanities Faculty in the United States and for the Advanced Placement Program in European History. He is the recipient of a number of teaching awards, including from York University, the Ontario Confederation of University Teaching Associations, and the 3M Award from the Society for Teaching and Learning in Higher Education in Canada. In 1998 Now Magazine designated him the Best Professor in Toronto.

In retirement, in addition to continuing his scholarly work, Arthur Haberman began writing mysteries set in contemporary Toronto. The first, Wild Justice, was published in 2018. A sequel, Social Justice,
will be published in March, 2019.