ENLIGHTENMENT; BRITAIN AN
Author(s): Roy Porter
For generations the traditional focus for those wishing to understand the roots of the modern world has been France on the eve of the Revolution. This work makes a case for considering Britain the true home of modernity - a country driven by an exuberance, diversity and power of invention comparable only to twentieth-century America.
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S 2001 British Academy Book Prize
Roy Porter is Professor in the Social History of Medicine at the Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine, London.
A blind spot? the birth of an ideology; clearing away the rubbish; print culture; nationalising religion; the culture of science; anatomising human nature; the science of politics; secularising; modernising; happiness; from good sense to sensibility; nature; did the mind have a sex? education - a panacea; the vulgar; the pursuit of wealth; reform; progress; the revolutionary era - "modern philosophy"; lasting light?
General Fields
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- : pengui
- : pengui
- : 0.505
- : 30 September 2001
- : 198mm X 129mm X 30mm
- : United Kingdom
- : 01 November 2012
- : books
Special Fields
- : Roy Porter
- : Paperback
- : 941.07
- : 752
- : illustrations, notes, bibliography, index