Enlightenment

An engaging and accessible overview of the Enlightenment as a global phenomenon, with updated material and additional online resources.

List of contents

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.

About the author

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).

Product details

• Authors: Dorinda Outram, Dorinda (University of Rochester Outram, Outram Dorinda
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.07.2019
• EAN: 9781108424660
• ISBN: 978-1-108-42466-0
• No. of pages: 196
• Series: New Approaches to European History; New Approaches to European His
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Modern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900, History of Ideas, Europe, European History, HISTORY / Europe / General, 18th century, c 1700 to c 1799, Historiography, Western philosophy: Enlightenment, C 1700 To C 1800