The roads to modernity : the British, French, and American enlightenments / Gertrude Himmelfarb.
The roads to modernity : the British, French, and American enlightenments / Gertrude Himmelfarb.
The roads to modernity : the British, French, and American enlightenments / Gertrude Himmelfarb.
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New York : Knopf : Distributed by Random House, 2004.
Date
2004.
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N190.9033/2
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English
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xii, 284 p. ; 22 cm.
Contents
The British Enlightenment : the sociology of virtue -- 1. "Social affections" and religious dispositions -- 2. Political economy and moral sentiments -- 3. Edmund Burke's enlightenment -- 4. Radical dissenters -- 5. Methodism : "a social religion" -- 6. "The age of benevolence" -- The French Enlight...
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New York : Knopf : Distributed by Random House, 2004.
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1st ed.
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New York (State)
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2004.
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"The Roads to Modernity reclaims the Enlightenment - an extraordinary time bursting with new ideas about the human condition in the realms of politics, society, and religion - from historians who have downgraded its importance and from scholars who have given preeminence to the Enlightenment in France over concurrent movements in England and Americ...
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The roads to modernity : the British, French, and American enlightenments / Gertrude Himmelfarb.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 237-276) and index.
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N190.9033/2
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1400042364
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190.9033
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