Enlightenment

Name: Enlightenment
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ISBN: 9781107636576

ISBN-10: 1107636574

ISBN-13: 9781107636576

Edition: 3rd 2012

Authors: Dorinda Outram

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Debate over the meaning of 'Enlightenment' began in the eighteenth century and still continues to this day. This period saw the opening of arguments on the nature of man, truth, the place of God, and the international circulation of ideas, people and gold. But did the Enlightenment mean the same for men and women, for rich and poor, for Europeans and non-Europeans? In the third edition of her acclaimed book, Dorinda Outram addresses these, and other questions about the Enlightenment as controversy increases about its place at the foundation of modernity. She studies it as a global phenomenon, setting the period against broader social changes. This new edition offers a new chapter on…

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List price: $20.99
Edition: 3rd
Copyright year: 2012
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 1/10/2013
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 186
Size: 5.94" wide x 8.94" long x 0.35" tall
Weight: 0.682
Language: English

Dorinda Outram is Clark Professor of History at the University of Rochester. Her previous publications include Uneasy Careers and Intimate Lives: Women in Science, 1789-1979 (1987) and The Body and the French Revolution: Sex, Class and Political Culture (1989).




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