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Enlightenment: Britain and the creation of the modern world

By Roy , Porter

Book information

Publisher
Penguin
ISBN
9780141927725, 9780140250282, 0141927720
Language
english
Format
MOBI
Filesize
3 MB (3215152 bytes)
Pages
752 pages\0
Time added
2020-07-26 19:24:52
British & Irish History;Enlightenment;Enlightenmen

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Product DescriptionFor generations the traditional focus for those wishing to understand the roots of the modern world has been France on the eve of the Revolution. Porter certainly acknowledges France's importance, but here makes an overwhelming case for considering Britain the true home of modernity - a country driven by an exuberance, diversity and power of invention comparable only to twentieth-century America. Porter immerses the reader in a society which, recovering from the horrors of the Civil War and decisively reinvigorated by the revolution of 1688, had emerged as something new and extraordinary - a society unlike any other in the world. About the AuthorRoy Porter is Professor in the Social History of Medicine at the Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine, London.

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