The roads to modernity : the British, French and American Enlightenments
Himmelfarb, Gertrude2008
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Himmelfarb contrasts the Enlightenment in Britain, France and the United States and shows how the abstracted idealism of man (combined with a disparagement of the common man) that characterised the French Enlightenment has wrongly been given primacy by generations of thinkers.
Main title:
The roads to modernity : the British, French and American Enlightenments / Gertrude Himmelfarb ; with an introduction by Gordon Brown.
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Imprint:
London : Vintage, 2008.
Collation:
xviii, 284 p. ; 20 cm.
Notes:
Originally published: New York: Knopf, 2004.Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:
9781845951412 (pbk)
Dewey class:
190.9033
Local class:
190.9033
Language:
English
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BRN:
1429280