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The Case for the Enlightenment: Scotland and Naples 1680–1760

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 September 2007

Filippo Sabetti
Affiliation:
McGill University

Extract

The Case for the Enlightenment: Scotland and Naples 1680–1760, John Robertson, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005, pp.xii, 455.

In this book, John Robertson, University Lecturer in Modern History and Fellow at St. Hugh's College, Oxford, does several things all at once. The result is one of the most profound and illuminating studies in comparative historical analysis and political thought published in recent decades.

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© 2007 Cambridge University Press

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