Preserved Smith

Revival

A History of Modern Culture: Volume II (1934): The Enlightenment 1687 - 1776

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

The understanding of history can be advanced only by the combination or alternation, of analysis and synthesis. Detailed research and generalizing survey are not antiethical but complementary. For a long time, however, the specialist has reigned supreme in our schools.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 716
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. Januar 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 43mm
• Gewicht: 1227g
• ISBN-13: 9781138552470
• ISBN-10: 113855247X
• Artikelnr.: 53166703

Autorenporträt

Preserved Smith

Inhaltsangabe

1. The background and the Character of the Enlightenment 2. Newtonian
Science 3. Linnean Science 4. The Place of Science in Eighteenth-Century
Thought 5. Philosophy 6. Political and Economic Theory 7. Historiography 8.
The Modern Prose Style 9. Poetry and Drama 10. The Propaganda of the
Enlightenment 11. Education 12. Religious Reaction and Revival 13. Deism
and Skepticism 14. The Decline of Superstition and Persecution 15. Art and
Music Bibliography Index