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The creation of the modern world : the untold story of the British Enlightenment

Roy Porter
"With its representative government, religious tolerance, precocious industrialization, and pioneering individualism, eighteenth-century Britain was at the cutting edge of political, social, and intellectual innovation. Porter examines the influence of such heroic figures as Bacon, Newton, and Locke in shaping the British Enlightenment, as well as the impact of other English essayists and novelists in popularizing modern thought. He persuasively demonstrates how their writings launched the wild phenomenon of Anglomania that swept the Continent and cast the Enlightenment well beyond Europe's shores."--Jacket
Print Book, English, 2000
1st American ed View all formats and editions
W.W. Norton, New York, 2000
xxiv, 727 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm
9780393048728, 9780393322682, 0393048721, 0393322688
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A blind spot
The birth of an ideology
Clearing away the rubbish
Print culture
Rationalizing religion
The culture of science
Anatomizing human nature
The science of politics
Secularizing
Modernizing
Happiness
From good sense to sensibility
Nature
Did the mind have a sex?
Education : a panacea?
The vulgar
The pursuit of wealth
Reform
Progress
The revolutionary era : 'modern philosophy'
Lasting light?
Originally published in Great Britain by Allen Lane/Penguin Press in 2000 under title: Enlightenment
www.lib.uwo.ca Donated in memory of Robert Laverne Eagleson