...an online chronicle of our journey through the Age of Absolutism, the Age of Revolution and the Age of Imperialism --and the key social, cultural, technical and political developments that shaped the modern world...
Picture: Topsy-turvy world, Jan Steen (Dutch Baroque painter, ca, 1625-1679)
France ranks 46th in theWorld Economic Forum’s 2010 gender equality report, trailing the United States, most of Europe, but also Kazakhstan and Jamaica.