Preserved Smith

A History of Modern Culture

Volume 2

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Published 1930-4, this two-volume work considers the emergence of modern society in the wake of the Protestant reformation.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 716
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. Juni 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 42mm
• Gewicht: 993g
• ISBN-13: 9781108074650
• ISBN-10: 1108074650
• Artikelnr.: 41243765

Autorenporträt

Preserved Smith (July 22, 1880 - May 15, 1941) was an American historian of the Protestant Reformation. He was the son of Henry Preserved Smith, a noted scholar of the Old Testament, and inherited his name from a line of Puritan ancestors stretching back to the seventeenth century. He attended Amherst College and Columbia University, where he received his PhD in 1907, and continued studies at the Sorbonne and the University of Berlin. Like his mentor James Harvey Robinson at Columbia, he had a high respect for science and a belief that knowledge of history was a way to improve human prospects for the future. He taught at Cornell University as a member of the Department of History from 1923 to 1941.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
1. The background and character of the Enlightenment
2. Newtonian science
3. Linnaean science
4. The place of science in eighteenth-century thought
5. Philosophy
6. Political and economic theory
7. Historiography
8. Scholarship
9. The modern prose style
10. Poetry and drama
11. The propaganda of the Enlightenment
12. Education
13. Religious reaction and revival
14. Deism and skepticism
15. The decline of superstition and persecution
16. Laws, morals, and manners
17. Art and music
Bibliography
Index.