The End Of Enlightenment: Empire Commerce Crisis Richard Whatmore Allen Lane Αγγλικά Βιβλία History World

\ A Brilliant And Revelatory Book About The History Of Ideas\ David Runciman Fascinating Important\ Ruth Scurr Enlightenment Is Popularly Seen As Age Reason Key Moment In Human When Ideals Such Freedom Progress Natural Rights Constitutional Government Prevailed This Radical Re-Evaluation Historian Richard Whatmore Shows Why For Many At Its Centre Was Profound Failure By Early Eighteenth Century Hope Widespread That Could Be Coupled With Toleration Commerce End Fanatic Wars Religion Were Destroying Europe Heart Battle To Establish Maintain Liberty Free States – Absolute Monarchies France Like Britain Might Even Subsist Together Equally Respectful Civil Liberties Yet All Collapsed Pursued Wealth Empire Means War Xenophobia Rife Itself Turned Traces Changing Perspectives Economists Philosophers Politicians Polemicists Around World Including Figures Diverse Hume Adam Smith Edmund Burke Mary Wollstonecraft They Had Strived Replace Superstition But Witnessed Instead Terror Revolution Corruption Gross Commercial Excess Continued Growth Violent Colonialism Returning Us These Tumultuous Events Ideas Digging Deep Into Thought Men Women Who Defined Their Offers Lucid Exploration Disillusion Intellectual Transformation Meditation On Our Assumptions Past Glimpse Different Ways Structured - Especially Problems Addressed Are Still Today Σελίδες: 496 Διαστάσεις: 16 1X16 1Cm