Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of illustrations
- Chronology
- 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: the science of the state and the market
- 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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Contents
Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of illustrations
- Chronology
- 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: the science of the state and the market
- 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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- The Enlightenment , pp. viiPublisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2013