The Enlightenment: A Brief History with Documents (The Bedford Series in History and Culture) - Softcover

Jacob, Margaret C.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0312179979 ISBN 13: 9780312179977

Publisher: Bedford/St. Martin's, 2000

Synopsis

In an unusually diverse collection, Margaret Jacob presents the eighteenth-century movement known as the Enlightenment that forever changed the political, religious, and educational landscape of the day. Selections by some of the period’s most important thinkers include pieces by Locke, Rousseau, Mary Wortley Montagu, Denis Diderot, and Moses Mendelssohn. She covers the movement’s lengthy evolution in a comprehensive introduction, which establishes the issues central to understanding the documents and provides important background on the political and social debates of the period. All documents are preceded by headnotes, and the volume includes a chronology, 14 illustrations, a bibliography, and an index.

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About the Author

Margaret C. Jacob is professor of history at the University of California, Los Angeles. She has published widely on science, religion, freemasonry, and the origins of the Industrial Revolution. A past Guggenheim and Fulbright fellow, Jacob has received grants from the National Science Foundation and the National Endowment for the Humanities. Her first book,The Newtonians and the English Revolution (1976), won the Gottschalk prize from the American Society for Eighteenth Century Studies, of which she was president from 1997 to 1998. Her most recent book isScientific Culture and the Making of the Industrial West (1997).

Edition details

• Publisher: Bedford/St. Martin's
• Publication date: 2000
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0312179979
• ISBN 13: 9780312179977
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 253