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The Enlightenment: A Comparative Social History, 1721-1794

The Enlightenment: A Comparative Social History, 1721-1794


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This work covers the broad diffusion of the Enlightenment in the 18th century, studying the impact of the Enlightenment not just on the intellectual and wealthy elite, but also on those broader and only partially educated social groups of whom Voltaire was once so famously dismissive. The author seeks to demonstrate that the Enlightenment was much more than the intellectual achievements of a few great individuals, and the "bougeois" salon culture to which it has somethimes been reduced. He illustrates that changes in attitudes and beliefs during the 18th century can be studied at least as fruitfully from the vantage point of ordinary individuals - those who read newspapers, frequented coffee houses or societies, shared in popular entertainments, or became interested in (and sometimes involved in) current social and political issues. Three cities (London, Paris and Hamburg) are central to this account, but comparisons range widely over London and western Europe.

Table of Contents:
The Enlightenment - words, images, and symbols in daily life; broadening the horizon - ways and means; books and readers; the press; reason and the dissolution of certainty; social stability and the underprivileged; State, subject and citizen.

About the Author :
Thomas Munck, Senior Lecturer in Modern History, University of Glasgow, UK

Review :
The analysis is lucid and engaging at all times, and is pitched with great skill at a level that will reach out to new students and readers while still synthesising and reacting to a huge volume of new scholarship for the benefits of specialists it is difficult to see how it could be done better. English Historical Review On a subject which can receive abstruse treatment, and where scholars tend to dwell on ideas and their impact on a restricted circle, Munck wrties in a clear and accessible yet balanced and authoritative way which will make this excellent introductory reading for undergraduates. Continuity and Change Thomas Munck's book will come as a boon to all seeking an up-to-date synthesis of research on the infrastructure of the Enlightenment. Urban History


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780340663257
  • Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
  • Publisher Imprint: Hodder Arnold
  • Height: 231 mm
  • Spine Width: 27 mm
  • Weight: 396 gr
  • ISBN-10: 0340663251
  • Publisher Date: 25 Feb 2000
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Sub Title: A Comparative Social History, 1721-1794
  • Width: 154 mm


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