This collection brings together the moral, social, and political ideas of the great eighteenth-century thinkers at the height of their influence. Included here are Voltaire's popularization of Newton's scientific worldview, Hume's anatomy of the origins of religion, Rousseau on education and the "natural man," Diderot in dialogue with literature's first "alienated man," Kant on universal peace, and Condorcet on the idea of progress.
Rich in titles on English life and social history, this collection spans the world as it was known to eighteenth-century historians and explorers.
Examines England's Glorious Revolution of 1688-1689 through a broad geographical and chronological framework, discussing its repercussions at home and abroad and why the subsequent ideological break with the past makes it the first modern ...
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On the day that Lee and Clinton arrived, Thomas Lynch called on William Smith. This fifty-one-year-old grandson of an Irish immigrant was one of the wealthiest men in South Carolina. Yet his Irish ancestry had prompted him to take the ...
Rich in titles on English life and social history, this collection spans the world as it was known to eighteenth-century historians and explorers.
Rich in titles on English life and social history, this collection spans the world as it was known to eighteenth-century historians and explorers.
Elkins and McKitrick, Age of Federalism, p. 43. 7. Elizabeth W. Marvick, 'Family Imagery and Revolutionary Spirit: Washington's Creative Leadership', in Mark J. Rozell, William D. Pederson and Frank J. Williams (eds), George Washington ...
Explores the social, cultural, and political developments in France in the period before the Revolution
Rich in titles on English life and social history, this collection spans the world as it was known to eighteenth-century historians and explorers.
Rich in titles on English life and social history, this collection spans the world as it was known to eighteenth-century historians and explorers.