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Author:

Jacob, Margaret C., 1943-

Title:

The Enlightenment : a brief history with documents / Margaret C. Jacob.

Publisher:

Bedford/St. Martin's,

Copyright Date:

c2001

Description:

xiii, 237 p. : ill., map ; 22 cm.

Subject:

Europe--Civilization--18th century.
Europe--Civilization--18th century--Sources.
Enlightenment.
Enlightenment--Sources.
Europe--History--17th century.
Europe--History--18th century.
Verlichting (cultuurgeschiedenis)

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. 225-227) and index.

Contents:

pt. 1. Introduction : the struggle to create a new culture -- Political origins -- Scientific and religious origins -- The public sphere -- Enlightened feminism -- Reworking seventeenth-century formal philosophy -- A clandestine universe -- A Protestant odyssey -- Travel literature -- Anglophilia -- Mid-century crisis -- Rousseau -- The International Republican Conversation, 1775-1800 -- Slavery, imperialism, and the French Revolution -- The legacy of the enlightenment -- A note about the text -- pt. 2. The documents -- 1. Some Thoughts Concerning Education, 1693 / John Locke -- 2. The Treatise on the Three Impostors, 1719 -- 3. Letters Concerning the English Nation, 1733 / Voltaire -- 4. Letters, 1716-1718 / Lady Mary Wortley Montagu -- 5. Encyclopedia, 1751 / Denis Diderot -- 6. Supplement to Bougainville's Voyage, 1772 / Denis Diderot -- 7. The Social Contract, 1762 / Jean-Jacques Rousseau -- 8. What is Enlightenment?, 1784 / Immanuel Kant -- 9. Jerusalem : Or on Religious Power and Judaism, 1783 / Moses Mendelssohn -- Appendixes -- An enlightenment chronology (1685-1800) -- Selected bibliography.

Series:

Bedford series in history and culture

ISBN:

9780312179977
0312179979
9780312237011
0312237014

OCLC:

(OCoLC)45991771

LCCN:

00104757

Locations:

BOPG851 -- Ames Public Library (Ames)

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

PTAX572 -- Stewart Memorial Library (Cedar Rapids)

I6OX771 -- Mercy College Library (Des Moines)

UWAX953 -- Waldorf University - Luise V. Hanson Library (Forest City)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)

PYAX423 -- ECC - Osgood Library (Iowa Falls)

OZAX845 -- Northwestern College - DeWitt Library (Orange City)