The dictionary of twentieth-century British philosophers [electronic resource] / general editor, Stuart Brown ; supervising editors, Hugh Bredin ... [et al.].

9781780349961 (online)
1780349963 (online)
184371096X (set)

Bristol, Eng. : Thoemmes Continuum, 2005.

English

1 online resource (2 v.)

B104 .D52 2005eb

192.03

There are substantial and original essays on the major American Enlightenment figures, including Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, David Rittenhouse, Benjamin Rush, Jonathan Edwards, and many others. And the collection is wide-ranging - including many topical essays and entries on dozens of often-overlooked secondary figures, offering a fresh definition of the Enlightenment in America. It has long been known that Americans made their own contributions to the Enlightenment, most notably by putting Enlightenment ideas to work in defining the American Revolution, the United States Constitution, and the nature of the early American Republic. These volumes show that the American Enlightenment was more far reaching than even that story assumes. This remarkable work shows that the American Enlightenment constitutes the central framework for understanding the development of American history between c. 1740 and c. 1820.

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