The Enlightenment - Couverture souple

Outram, Dorinda

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0521425344 ISBN 13 : 9780521425346

Editeur : Cambridge University Press, 1995

Synopsis

This major new textbook introduces both the concepts and the contexts of the Enlightenment to students of eighteenth-century history.

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

What was the Enlightenment? Was it a unified body of thought generated by an established canon of 'great thinkers', or were there many areas of contradiction and divergence? How far-reaching were its critiques intended to be? Was it a revolutionary body of thought, or was it merely a catalyst for the revolutionary age which followed it? Did it mean the same for men and for women, for rich and poor, or for European and non-European? In this important new textbook Dorinda Outram addresses these, and other, questions about the 'Enlightenment'. She sets the major debates of the period against the broader social changes such as the onset of industrialisation in Western Europe, the establishment of new colonial empires, and the exploration of hitherto unmapped portions of the world's surface. This unique and accessible synthesis of scholarship will be invaluable to any student of eighteenth-century history.

Biographie de l'auteur

Dorinda Outram is 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).

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Cambridge University Press
• Date d'édition: 1995
• ISBN 10: 0521425344
• ISBN 13: 9780521425346
• Reliure: Broché
• Langue: anglais
• Nombre de pages: 157
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible