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 .
Index
Notes bibliogr.
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?