Fire and light : how the Enlightenment transformed our world / James MacGregor Burns.
Fire and light : how the Enlightenment transformed our world / James MacGregor Burns.
Fire and light : how the Enlightenment transformed our world / James MacGregor Burns.
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Publisher
New York : Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's Press, 2013.
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G 2014/3041
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Language
English
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Physical content
ix, 388 pages ; 25 cm.
Content type
text
Media type
unmediated
Carrier type
volume
Contents
Introduction: Enlightenment as revolution? -- The revolution in ideas. The state of nature -- The triumph of reason -- The freedom of thought -- The light of experience -- Rule Britannia? The widening gap -- Imperial rulership -- The Scottish enlightenment -- Revolutionary Americans. An American enl...
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Publisher
New York : Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's Press, 2013.
Edition
First edition.
Place of Publication
New York (State)
Date Published
2013.
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Summary
Pulitzer Prize-winning and bestselling historian James MacGregor Burns explores the most daring and transformational intellectual movement in history, the European and American Enlightenment In this engaging, provocative history, James MacGregor Burns brilliantly illuminates the two-hundred-year conflagration of the Enlightenment, when audacious qu...
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Fire and light : how the Enlightenment transformed our world / James MacGregor Burns.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
State Reference Library copy misbound.
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G 2014/3041
Record Identifier
74VKvm0ePW83
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VKvm0ePW83
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ISBN
1250024900 (e-book)
9781250024893 (hardcover)
1250024897 (hardcover)
9781250024909 (e-book)
DDC
940.25
MMS ID
991021463779702626
