Enlightenment: Britain and the Making of the Modern World - Couverture rigide

Porter, Roy

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0713991526 ISBN 13 : 9780713991529

Editeur : Allen Lane, 2000

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur :

For generations the traditional focus for those wishing to understand the roots of the modern world has been France on the eve of the Revolution. Porter certainly acknowledges France's importance, but here makes an overwhelming case for consideringBritain the true home of modernity - a country driven by an exuberance, diversity and power of invention comparable only to twentieth-century America. Porter immerses the reader in a society which, recovering from the horrors of the Civil War and decisively reinvigorated by the revolution of 1688, had emerged as something new and extraordinary - a society unlike any other in the world.

Biographie de l'auteur :

Roy Porter is Professor in the Social History of Medicine at the Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine, London.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Allen Lane
• Date d'édition: 2000
• ISBN 10: 0713991526
• ISBN 13: 9780713991529
• Reliure: Relié
• Numéro d'édition: 1
• Nombre de pages: 752