Encyclopedia Of The American Enlightenment

Author : Mark G. Spencer
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 0826479693
Total Pages : 1257 pages
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Download or read book Encyclopedia of the American Enlightenment written by Mark G. Spencer and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2015-01-01 with total page 1257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first reference work on one of the key subjects in American history, filling an important gap in the literature, with over 500 original essays.

Author : Mark G. Spencer
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1474249841
Total Pages : 1257 pages
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Download or read book The Bloomsbury Encyclopedia of the American Enlightenment written by Mark G. Spencer and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2015-01-01 with total page 1257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Marc G. Spencer
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ISBN 13 : 9781474249829
Total Pages : 553 pages
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Author : Marc G. Spencer
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ISBN 13 : 9781474249850
Total Pages : 5 pages
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Author : Mark G. Spencer
Publisher : Bloomsbury Academic
ISBN 13 : 9780199797738
Total Pages : 1215 pages
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Download or read book The Bloomsbury Encyclopedia of the American Enlightenment written by Mark G. Spencer and published by Bloomsbury Academic. This book was released on 2015 with total page 1215 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Bloomsbury Encyclopedia of the American Enlightenment is the first reference work on this key subject in early American history. With over 500 original essays on key American Enlightenment figures, it provides a comprehensive account to complement the intense scholarly activity that has recently centered on the European Enlightenment.

Author : Marc G. Spencer
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ISBN 13 : 9781474249867
Total Pages : 5 pages
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Author : Robert DARNTON
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674030184
Total Pages : 639 pages
Book Rating : 4.83/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Business of Enlightenment written by Robert DARNTON and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2009-06-30 with total page 639 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A great book about an even greater book is a rare event in publishing. Darnton's history of the Encyclopedie is such an occasion. The author explores some fascinating territory in the French genre of histoire du livre, and at the same time he tracks the diffusion of Enlightenment ideas. He is concerned with the form of the thought of the great philosophes as it materialized into books and with the way books were made and distributed in the business of publishing. This is cultural history on a broad scale, a history of the process of civilization. In tracing the publishing story of Diderot's Encyclopedie, Darnton uses new sources--the papers of eighteenth-century publishers--that allow him to respond firmly to a set of problems long vexing historians. He shows how the material basis of literature and the technology of its production affected the substance and diffusion of ideas. He fully explores the workings of the literary market place, including the roles of publishers, book dealers, traveling salesmen, and other intermediaries in cultural communication. How publishing functioned as a business, and how it fit into the political as well as the economic systems of prerevolutionary Europe are set forth. The making of books touched on this vast range of activities because books were products of artisanal labor, objects of economic exchange, vehicles of ideas, and elements in political and religious conflict. The ways ideas traveled in early modern Europe, the level of penetration of Enlightenment ideas in the society of the Old Regime, and the connections between the Enlightenment and the French Revolution are brilliantly treated by Darnton. In doing so he unearths a double paradox. It was the upper orders in society rather than the industrial bourgeoisie or the lower classes that first shook off archaic beliefs and took up Enlightenment ideas. And the state, which initially had suppressed those ideas, ultimately came to favor them. Yet at this high point in the diffusion and legitimation of the Enlightenment, the French Revolution erupted, destroying the social and political order in which the Enlightenment had flourished. Never again will the contours of the Enlightenment be drawn without reference to this work. Darnton has written an indispensable book for historians of modern Europe.

Author : Ellen Judy Wilson
Publisher : Infobase Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1438110219
Total Pages : 689 pages
Book Rating : 4.19/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Encyclopedia of the Enlightenment written by Ellen Judy Wilson and published by Infobase Publishing. This book was released on 2014-05-14 with total page 689 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive reference guide on the eighteenth century time period known as the Enlightenment.

Author : Paul Merrill Spurlin
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
ISBN 13 : 0820359300
Total Pages : 222 pages
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Download or read book The French Enlightenment in America written by Paul Merrill Spurlin and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 2021-10-15 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The French Enlightenment in America offers an overview of French American cultural relations during the French Enlightenment. The essays in this volume explore the literary presence of French authors in America between 1760 and 1800 and the reception of their writings by the Founding Fathers and other Americans. These essays explore such topics as the Founding Fathers’ knowledge of French, the philosophes, Voltaire in the South, and more. The Georgia Open History Library has been made possible in part by a major grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities: Democracy demands wisdom. Any views, findings, conclusions, or recommendations expressed in this collection, do not necessarily represent those of the National Endowment for the Humanities.

Author : John Lachs
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135948879
Total Pages : 870 pages
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Download or read book American Philosophy: An Encyclopedia written by John Lachs and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2008-03-31 with total page 870 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Encyclopedia of American Philosophy provides coverage of the major figures, concepts, historical periods and traditions in American philosophical thought. Containing over 600 entries written by scholars who are experts in the field, this Encyclopedia is the first of its kind. It is a scholarly reference work that is accessible to the ordinary reader by explaining complex ideas in simple terms and providing ample cross-references to facilitate further study. The Encyclopedia of American Philosophy contains a thorough analytical index and will serve as a standard, comprehensive reference work for universities and colleges. Topics covered include: Great philosophers: Emerson, Dewey, James, Royce, Peirce, Santayana Subjects: Pragmatism, Progress, the Future, Knowledge, Democracy, Growth, Truth Influences on American Philosophy: Hegel, Aristotle, Plato, British Enlightenment, Reformation Self-Assessments: Joe Margolis, Donald Davidson, Susan Haack, Peter Hare, John McDermott, Stanley Cavell Ethics: Value, Pleasure, Happiness, Duty, Judgment, Growth Political Philosophy: Declaration of Independence, Democracy, Freedom, Liberalism, Community, Identity