Download or read book Apocalypse Then written by Arthur Williamson and published by Praeger. This book was released on 2008-03-30 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why is the Apocalypse - so alien to most people today - so pivotal to the creation of our culture and to what we are? Williamson explores this question, offering an introduction to why many of Europe and America's most creative minds believed that they were living in the latter days of the world between 1500 and 1800.