The enlightenment /
"What is the Enlightenment? A period rich with debates on the nature of man, truth and the place of God, with the international circulation of ideas, people and gold. But did the Enlightenment mean the same for men and women, for rich and poor, for Europeans and non-Europeans? In this fourth ed...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
| Published: | Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2019. ©2019. |
| Edition: | Fourth edition. |
| Series: | New approaches to European history.
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Table of Contents:
- What is enlightenment?
- Coffee houses and consumers : the social context of enlightenment
- Enlightenment and government : new departure or business as usual?
- Political economy : profit, trade, empire and an enlightenment science
- Exploration, cross-cultural contact, and the ambivalence of the enlightenment
- When people are property : the problem of slavery in the enlightenment
- Enlightenment thinking about gender
- Science and the enlightenment : God's order and man's understanding
- The rise of modern paganism? : religion and the enlightenment
- The end of the enlightenment : conspiracy and revolution?