About this title: One of our most distinguished intellectual historians gives us a brilliant revisionist history. The Roads to Modernity reclaims the Enlightenment–an extraordinary time bursting with new ideas about the human condition in the realms of politics, society, and religion–from historians who have downgraded its importance and from ...
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Knopf
Date Published: 2004-08-24
ISBN-13:9781400042364ISBN:1400042364
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Knopf Publishing Group
Date Published: 2004
ISBN-13:9781400042364ISBN:1400042364
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Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Vintage Books
Date Published: 2005-08-09
ISBN-13:9781400077229ISBN:1400077222
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Vintage
Date Published: 2005
ISBN-13:9781400077229ISBN:1400077222
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Alfred A Knopf Inc, Westminister, Maryland, U.S.A.
Date Published: 2004
ISBN-13:9781400042364ISBN:1400042364
Description: New. 1400042364. FLAWLESS COPY, BRAND NEW, PRISTINE, NEVER OPENED 284 pp--IMPORTANT: Interior text is clean, tight, and Unmarked Pages are intact and tight to the spine. --"One of our most distinguished intellectual historians gives us a brilliant revisionist history. The Roads to Modernity reclaims the Enlightenment?an extraordinary time bursting with new ideas about the human condition in the realms of politics, society, and religion?from historians who have downgraded its importance and from ... read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Vintage
Date Published: 06/03/2008
ISBN-13:9781845951412ISBN:1845951417
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"I would have preferred a history of the Enlightenment rather than this survey of different issues of that period. One complaint I have is despite the subtitle of the book, about 120 pages are devoted to trying to argue for including England in the Enlightenment (which I agree with) and only 38 pages to the French and 35 pages to the American Enlightenments. While I agree that the English and American revolutions were certainly more successful (and less bloody) than the French Revolution, I find Himmelfarb too disparaging of the French philosophes. She clearly has a bias for the religious movements of the 18th century. She plays up various quotes from the Founding Fathers that favor religion while not mentioning at all the anti-religious sentiments by those very same figures (Washington, Adams, Jefferson, Madison, Paine, Franklin). So the book is well written and interesting, but I disagree with some of the viewpoints."
"This is a great, short, readable history of enlightenment thought. It is non-traditional in that it focuses on the English enlightenment - and contrasts it with the French."
"Although I read this for class and it seemed excessively boring at first, it was actually a really smart look at Enlightenment ideas and trends of 18th century American, French, and English philosophers."
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