The Creation of the Modern World: The Untold Story of the British Enlightenment
- ISBN-10
- 0393322688
- ISBN-13
- 9780393322682
- Category
- History
- Pages
- 727
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2000
- Publisher
- W. W. Norton & Company
- Author
- Roy Porter
Description
A groundbreaking history of the British Enlightenment retraces the innovations in representative government, industrialization, religious tolerance, and individualism that made the eighteenth century so important in the history of England, and the world. Reprint.
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