Fire and Light
How the Enlightenment Transformed Our World
New York : Thomas Dunne Books, 2013.
Format: Book
Edition: First edition.
Description: ix, 388 pages ; 25 cm
Pulitzer Prize-winning and bestselling historian James MacGregor Burns explores the most daring and transformational intellectual movement in history, the European and American Enlightenment In this engaging, provocative history, James MacGregor Burns brilliantly illuminates the two-hundred-year conflagration of the Enlightenment, when audacious questions and astonishing ideas tore across Europe and the New World, transforming thought, overturning governments, and inspiring visionary political experiments.
Subjects:
Enlightenment -- Influence.
Enlightenment -- France.
Enlightenment -- Great Britain.
Enlightenment -- United States.
Enlightenment -- Influence.
Enlightenment -- France.
Enlightenment -- Great Britain.
Enlightenment -- United States.
ISBN:
9781250024893 (hardcover : alk. paper)
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 271-367) and index.