The creation of the modern world : the untold story of the British Enlightenment / Roy Porter.
Porter, Roy, 1946-2002.
2000
DA485 P68 2000b (Mapit)
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Title The creation of the modern world : the untold story of the British Enlightenment / Roy Porter.
Author Porter, Roy, 1946-2002.
Uniform Title Enlightenment
Edition 1st American ed.
ISBN 9780393048728
0393048721
Imprint New York : W.W. Norton, 2000.
Language English
Description xxiv, 727 p., [16] p. of plates : ill. (some col.) ; 25 cm.
Call Number DA485 P68 2000b
Dewey Decimal Classification 941.07
Note Originally published in Great Britain by Allen Lane/Penguin Press in 2000 under title: Enlightenment.
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references and index.
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A blind spot
The birth of an ideology
Clearing away the rubbish
Print culture
Rationalizing religion
The culture of science
Anatomizing human nature
The science of politics
Secularizing
Modernizing
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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