Here is the most comprehensive and accessible visual sourcebook and survey of the Enlightenment – its people, its horizons, its defining characteristics, its whole culture. Features hundreds of painstakingly researched illustrations from the widest range of sources. Special ‘picture essays’ explore selected themes in depth.
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Featuring hundreds of researched illustrations from the widest range of sources, this book features a comprehensive and accessible survey of the Enlightenment its people, its horizons, its defining characteristics, its whole culture.
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Introduction: Archetypes of the Enlightenment • 1. What Was the Enlightenment? • 2. The Sociable Enlightenment • 3. Marriage, Children and Gender: the Enlightenment Family • 4. The Global Enlightenment • 5. ‘Know Thyself’: the Self and Experience • 6. Authority and Architecture • 7. Science and Medicine • 8. Epilogue: The Legacy of the Enlightenment
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'This gorgeous visual sourcebook on the union of ideas and art is lavishly crammed with pictures and extensive essays, complemented by the excellent production values of T&H and a cover that encapsulates the ambition and scope of the era' - The Bookseller
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This illustrated compendium explores the phenomenon of 'The Enlightenment' in all its forms, from ideas and letters to interiors and politics

Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9780500251317
Publisert
2006-11-06
Utgiver
Vendor
Thames & Hudson Ltd
Høyde
280 mm
Bredde
219 mm
Aldersnivå
G, 01
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Innbundet
Antall sider
320

Forfatter

Biographical note

Dorinda Outram is Franklin I. Clark Professor of History at the University of Rochester, New York. Her distinguished academic career has taken her to Cambridge, Harvard, MIT, the Max Planck Institute, Berlin, and the National Centre for Scientific Research, Paris.