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The Pacific Ocean was the setting for the last great chapter in the convergence of humankind from across the globe. Driven by Enlightenment ideals, Europeans so
The Enlightenment
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A biography of scientific thinker Joseph Banks, placing his work in the context of eighteenth-century Britain.
The Book That Changed Europe
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Two French Protestant refugees in eighteenth-century Amsterdam gave the world an extraordinary work that intrigued and outraged readers across Europe. In this c