Dorinda Outram

Enlightenment (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Debate over the meaning of 'Enlightenment' began in the eighteenth century and still continues to this day. This period saw the opening of arguments on the nature of man, truth, the place of God and the international circulation of ideas, people and gold. But did the Enlightenment mean the same for men and women, for rich and poor, for Europeans and non-Europeans? In the third edition of her acclaimed book, Dorinda Outram addresses these and other questions about the Enlightenment as controversy increases about its place at the foundation of modernity. She studies it as a global phenomenon, setting the period against broader social changes. This new edition offers a new chapter on political economy, a completely revised further reading section and a new feature on electronic sources to stimulate primary research. This accessible overview will be essential reading for students of eighteenth-century history, philosophy and the history of ideas.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. Januar 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781139610827
• Artikelnr.: 52953535

Autorenporträt

Dorinda Outram is Clark Professor Emerita of History at the University of Rochester, New York. Her previous publications include Georges Cuvier: Vocation, Science and Authority in Post-Revolutionary France (1982), Uneasy Careers and Intimate Lives: Women in Science, 1789-1979 (1988) and The Body and the French Revolution: Sex, Class and Political Culture (1989).

Inhaltsangabe

1. What is Enlightenment?
2. Coffee houses and consumers: the social context of Enlightenment
3. Enlightenment and government
new departure or business as usual?
4. Political economy: profit, trade, empire and an Enlightenment science
5. Exploration, cross-cultural contact, and the ambivalence of the Enlightenment
6. When people are property: the problem of slavery in the Enlightenment
7. Enlightenment thinking about gender
8. Science and the Enlightenment: God's order and man's understanding
9. The rise of modern paganism? Religion and the Enlightenment
10. The end of the Enlightenment: conspiracy and revolution?
Brief biographies
Suggestions for further reading
Electronic sources for further research
Index.

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1. What is Enlightenment?; 2. Coffee houses and consumers: the social context of Enlightenment; 3. Enlightenment and government; new departure or business as usual?; 4. Political economy: profit, trade, empire and an Enlightenment science; 5. Exploration, cross-cultural contact, and the ambivalence of the Enlightenment; 6. When people are property: the problem of slavery in the Enlightenment; 7. Enlightenment thinking about gender; 8. Science and the Enlightenment: God's order and man's understanding; 9. The rise of modern paganism? Religion and the Enlightenment; 10. The end of the Enlightenment: conspiracy and revolution?; Brief biographies; Suggestions for further reading; Electronic sources for further research; Index.

Rezensionen

'This new edition of Outram's successful synthesis on the Enlightenment has been enriched by a new chapter on the political economy. A long way led from the 'nervus rerum', via mercantilism and cameralism, to the ideas of Adam Smith. In the wider context of colonialism, slavery, trade and science, an excellent summary of the main themes of the Enlightenment has just become even more useful.' Karin Friedrich, University of Aberdeen