The British, French, and American Enlightenments
by
Gertrude Himmelfarb
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
In an elegant, eminently readable work, one of our most distinguished intellectual historians gives us a brilliant revisionist history. The Roads to Modernity reclaims the Enlightenment–an extraordinary time bursting with new ideas about human nature, politics, society, and religion--from historians...