Strangers nowhere in the world : the rise of cosmopolitanism in early modern Europe / Margaret C. Ja...
Strangers nowhere in the world : the rise of cosmopolitanism in early modern Europe / Margaret C. Ja...
Strangers nowhere in the world : the rise of cosmopolitanism in early modern Europe / Margaret C. Jacob.
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Publisher
Philadelphia, Pa. : University of Pennsylvania Press ; Bristol : University Presses Marketing [distributor], 2006.
Date
2006.
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N306.09409/ 1
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Language
English
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Physical content
187 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Contents
1. Censors, inquisitors, and cosmopolites -- 2. Alchemy, science, and a universalist language -- 3. Markets not so free -- 4. Secrecy and the paradox at the heart of modernity (the Masonic moment) -- 5. Liberals, radicals, and bohemians.
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Publisher
Philadelphia, Pa. : University of Pennsylvania Press ; Bristol : University Presses Marketing [distributor], 2006.
Place of Publication
Pennsylvania
Date Published
2006.
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"Drawing upon sources as various as Inquisition records and spy reports, minutes of scientific societies and the writings of political revolutionaries, Strangers Nowhere in the World reveals a moment in European history when an ideal of cultural openness came to seem strong enough to counter centuries of prevailing chauvinism and xenophobia. Perhap...
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Strangers nowhere in the world : the rise of cosmopolitanism in early modern Europe / Margaret C. Jacob.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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N306.09409/ 1
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74VKvbjgGj0X
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0812239334 (hbk.) :
9780812239331 (hbk.) :
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306.0940903
MMS ID
991021652059702626
