Full name: Enlightenment: Britain and the Creation of the Modern World

Author: Roy Porter Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Purchase/reserch links: LibraryThing Amazon Goodreads ISBNs: 9780333454145 0333454146

After having long been dismissed as a shallow irrelevance, the Enlightenment has now been rehabilitated as a major European movement in ideas and culture. Recent historical writing has shown how it was more than the airy philosophisings of a coterie of intellectuals - but rather a massive reorientation of thought, involving modernization, secularization and the application of science on a grand scale. These trends are surveyed and assessed in this book. Similar books: Customs in Common by E. P. Thompson England in the Eighteenth Century by J. H. Plumb Flesh in the Age of Reason by Roy Porter Whigs & Hunters by E. P. Thompson A Short History of England by G. K. Chesterton A Wicked Company by Philipp Blom Britons: Forging the Nation, 1707-1837 by Linda Colley 1759 by Frank McLynn The Science of Freedom by Peter Gay The Britons by Christopher A. Snyder Unnatural Murder by Anne Somerset The Making of Victorian Values by Ben Wilson The Enlightenment by Anthony Pagden Tragedy and Hope by Carroll Quigley A Study of History by Arnold J. Toynbee