The Enlightenment

Outram, Dorinda

The Enlightenment [Texte imprimé] / Dorinda Outram - 3rd ed. - Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2012 - 1 vol. (174 p.) : ill., couv. ill. ; 24 cm - New approaches to European history .

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What is enlightenment? -- Coffee houses and consumers: the social context of enlightenment -- Enlightenment and government: new departure or business as usual? -- Political economy : the science of the state and the market -- 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?

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Enlightenment

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