Title:
The roads to modernity : the British, French, and American Enlightenments / Gertrude Himmelfarb.
Author:
Himmelfarb, Gertrude.
Publication Information:
New York : Vintage Books, 2005, c2004.
Call Number:
B802 .H65 2005
Edition:
1st Vintage Books ed.
ISBN:
9781400077229
Physical Description:
xii, 284 p. ; 21 cm.
Contents:
The British Enlightenment: the sociology of virtue -- "Social affections" and religious dispositions -- Political economy and moral sentiments -- Edmund Burke's enlightenment -- Radical dissenters -- Methodism: "a social religion" -- "The age of benevolence" -- The French enlightenment: the ideaology of reason -- The American enlightenment: the politics of liberty.
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