The enlightenment

"New Approaches to European History is an important textbook series, which provides concise but authoritative surveys of major themes and problems in European history since the Renaissance. Written at a level and length accessible to advanced school students and undergraduates, each book in the...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Outram, Dorinda (-)
Formato: Libro
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press 2019
Edición:4th ed
Colección:New approaches to European history
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  • What is enlightenment?
  • Coffee houses and consumers: the social context of enlightenment
  • Enlightenment and government: new departure or business as usual?
  • Political economy: profit, trade, empire and an enlightenment science
  • Exploration, cross-cultural contact, and the ambivalence of the enlightenment
  • When people are property: the problem of slavery in the enlightenment
  • enlightenment thinking about gender
  • Science and the enlightenment: God's order and man's understanding
  • The rise of modern paganism? Religion and the enlightenment
  • The end of the enlightenment: conspiracy and revolution?