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Enlightenment Britain and the Creation of the Modern World

Porter, Roy
Heftet / 2001 / Engelsk

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ISBN
9780140250282
Publisert
2001
Utgiver
Vendor
Penguin Books Ltd
Vekt
522 gr
Høyde
198 mm
Bredde
129 mm
Dybde
32 mm
Aldersnivå
01, G, 01
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Antall sider
768

Forfatter
Porter, Roy

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Roy Porter is Professor in the Social History of Medicine at the Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine, London.

Enlightenment Britain and the Creation of the Modern World

Porter, Roy
Heftet / 2001 / Engelsk
Porter, Roy
Heftet / 2001 / Engelsk
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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. Porter certainly acknowledges France's importance, but here makes an overwhelming case for consideringBritain the true home of modernity - a country driven by an exuberance, diversity and power of invention comparable only to twentieth-century America. Porter immerses the reader in a society which, recovering from the horrors of the Civil War and decisively reinvigorated by the revolution of 1688, had emerged as something new and extraordinary - a society unlike any other in the world.
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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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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?
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S 2001 British Academy Book Prize

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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. Porter certainly acknowledges France's importance, but here makes an overwhelming case for consideringBritain the true home of modernity - a country driven by an exuberance, diversity and power of invention comparable only to twentieth-century America. Porter immerses the reader in a society which, recovering from the horrors of the Civil War and decisively reinvigorated by the revolution of 1688, had emerged as something new and extraordinary - a society unlike any other in the world.
Les mer
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.
Les mer
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?
Les mer
S 2001 British Academy Book Prize

Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9780140250282
Publisert
2001
Utgiver
Vendor
Penguin Books Ltd
Vekt
522 gr
Høyde
198 mm
Bredde
129 mm
Dybde
32 mm
Aldersnivå
01, G, 01
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Antall sider
768

Forfatter
Porter, Roy

Om bidragsyterne

Roy Porter is Professor in the Social History of Medicine at the Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine, London.

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