The Enlightenment
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Beschreibung
In an unusually diverse collection, Margaret Jacob presents the eighteenth-century movement known as the Enlightenment that forever changed the political, religious, and educational landscape of the day. Selections by some of the period’s most important thinkers include pieces by Locke, Rousseau, Mary Wortley Montagu, Denis Diderot, and Moses Mendelssohn. She covers the movement’s lengthy evolution in a comprehensive introduction, which establishes the issues central to understanding the documents and provides important background on the political and social debates of the period.
Includes a variety of documents including extracts from a selection of key Enlightenment thinkersAll documents are preceded by headnotes, and the volume includes a chronology, 14 illustrations, a bibliography, and an index providing additional pedagogical supportProvides a synthesis of evidence which gives students a rich introduction to the history of this period and develops historiographical skillsWritten by an expert in the field
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Margaret Jacob
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