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Language: en
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Type: BOOK - Published: 2008-09-15 - Publisher: University of Chicago Press
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Language: en
Pages: 144
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Inspired by Voltaire’s advice that a text needs to be concise to have real influence, this anthology contains fiery extracts by forty eighteenth-century autho
Language: en
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Type: BOOK - Published: 1998 - Publisher: Harvard University Press
A panorama of a whole civilization, a world on the verge of cataclysm, unfolds in this magisterial work by the foremost historian of eighteenth-century France.
Language: en
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Drawing on a range of methodologies associated with the history of reading, this book explores the reception of the Scottish Enlightenment, assessing the impact