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Burns, James MacGregor.
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Enlightenment -- Influence.
Enlightenment -- France.
Enlightenment -- Great Britain.
Enlightenment -- United States.
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Burns, James MacGregor.
Enlightenment -- Influence.
Enlightenment -- France.
Enlightenment -- Great Britain.
Enlightenment -- United States.
MARC Display
Fire
and
light
:
how
the
Enlightenment
transformed
our
world
/ James MacGregor Burns.
by
Burns, James MacGregor.
Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's Press, 2013.
Call #:
940.25 B967f
Subjects
Enlightenment
-- Influence.
Enlightenment
-- France.
Enlightenment
-- Great Britain.
Enlightenment
-- United States.
ISBN:
9781250024893 (hc.)
1250024897 (hc.)
Edition:
1st ed.
Description:
ix, 388 p. ; 25 cm.
Bibliography:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
Introduction:
Enlightenment
as revolution? -- The revolution in ideas. The state of nature -- The triumph of reason -- The freedom of thought -- The
light
of experience -- Rule Britannia? The widening gap -- Imperial rulership -- The Scottish
enlightenment
-- Revolutionary Americans. An American
enlightenment
-- Creating the revolution -- Self-evident truths -- The egalitarian movement -- France: rule or ruin? Royal Paris -- The Philosophes and the people -- The unmaking of a king -- Becoming revolutionary -- The madness of the factions -- Transforming American politics. The life of the nation -- The liberty of a person -- The happiness of the people -- The first transformation? -- Britain: the rules of rulership. The inside game -- The revolution that wasn't -- The fractured debate -- Napoleonic rulership. La grande farce -- Power: the supreme value -- The abdication of the people -- Restoration? -- Britain: industrializing
enlightenment
. Ideas as capital -- The tyranny of the machine -- Property and poverty -- The new radicals -- France: the crowds of July. The liberal revolt -- Tribunes of the people -- Republican rivals -- The American experiment. We are all republicans -- The Democratic majority -- Liberty and equality -- The new
world
-- Britain: the
fire
for reform. Strategies of reform -- Ideas as weapons -- Stumbling toward reform -- The dawning of a liberal party -- The negative of liberty. People as property -- The canker of bondage -- The transformation. The liberal triumph -- The clash of ideas -- A new American
enlightenment
?
Summary:
Historian James MacGregor Burns explores the most daring and transformational intellectual movement in history, the European and American
Enlightenment
, when audacious questions and astonishing ideas tore across Europe and the New
World
, transforming thought, overturning governments, and inspiring visionary political experiments.
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