Enlightenment A Comparative Social History 1721-1794

Name: Enlightenment A Comparative Social History 1721-1794
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ISBN: 9780340663257

ISBN-10: 0340663251

ISBN-13: 9780340663257

Edition: 2000

Authors: Thomas Munck

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What did the Enlightenment mean for people who were not intellectuals or members of a wealthy elite? In this incisive new book, Thomas Munck shows the profound impact of Enlightenment ideas on a broad range of social groups. Moving beyond traditional treatments, which tend to focus on leading individuals and salon culture, Munck demonstrates that the Enlightenment can be fruitfully studied from the vantage point of ordinary people. He focuses on Paris, London, and Hamburg, but draws comparisons across much of Europe. The book begins with Montesquieu's Persian Letters in 1721 and ends with the changing direction of the French Revolution in 1794, and with a reassessment of enlightened…

Book details

List price: $35.00
Copyright year: 2000
Publisher: Hodder Education
Publication date: 4/13/2000
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 260
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.25" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.836
Language: English




The Enlightenment



Tradition and communication in daily life



Broadening the horizon: ways and means



Books and readers



The press



Reason and the dissolution of certainties



Property, the underprivileged and reform



State, nation and individual in the late eighteenth century



Conclusion