Enlightenment: Britain And the Creation of the Modern World: Britain and the Making of the Modern World (Allen Lane History S.) - Hardcover

Porter, Roy

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0713991526 ISBN 13: 9780713991529

Verlag: Allen Lane, 2000

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Reseña del editor:

Roy Porter's new book is a vast celebration of the pace and vitality of Georgian Britain - the true crucible of change in the world. Porter makes a resounding case for this liberal, hedonistic society - so different from the febrile, desiccated coterie of French philosophies and so different too from its puritan Victorian successor. 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 certainlyacknowledges France's importance, but here makes an overwhelming case for considering Britain the true home of modernity - a country driven by an exuberance, diversity and power of invention comparable only to twentieth-century America.

Biografía del autor:

Roy Porter is Professor of the Social History of Medicine at the Wellcome Institute. His last book, THE GREATEST BENEFIT TO MANKIND, won the Los Angeles Times history prize.

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• Verlag: Allen Lane
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2000
• ISBN 10: 0713991526
• ISBN 13: 9780713991529
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Auflage: 1
• Anzahl der Seiten: 752