Enlightenment S Frontier

Author : Fredrik Albritton Jonsson
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 465 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2013-06-18
Category : History
ISBN : 9780300163742

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Enlightenment's Frontier by Fredrik Albritton Jonsson Pdf

DIVEnlightenment’s Frontier is the first book to investigate the environmental roots of the Scottish Enlightenment. What was the place of the natural world in Adam Smith’s famous defense of free trade? Fredrik Albritton Jonsson recovers the forgotten networks of improvers and natural historians that sought to transform the soil, plants, and climate of Scotland in the eighteenth century. The Highlands offered a vast outdoor laboratory for rival liberal and conservative views of nature and society. But when the improvement schemes foundered toward the end of the century, northern Scotland instead became a crucible for anxieties about overpopulation, resource exhaustion, and the physical limits to economic growth. In this way, the rise and fall of the Enlightenment in the Highlands sheds new light on the origins of environmentalism./div

Author : Patrick Lee Lucas
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2023-03-28
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780813196909

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Athens on the Frontier by Patrick Lee Lucas Pdf

In 1811, architect Benjamin Henry Latrobe spurred American builders into action when he called for them to reject "the corrupt Age of Dioclesian, or the still more absurd and debased taste of Louis the XIV," and to emulate instead the ancient temples of Greece. In response, people in the antebellum trans-Appalachian region embraced the clean lines, intricate details, and stately symmetry of the Grecian style. On newly built public buildings, private homes, and religious structures, references to classical Greek architecture became the preferred ornamentation. Several antebellum cities and towns adopted the moniker of "Athens," styling themselves as centers of culture, education, and sophistication. As the trend grew, American citizens understood the name as a link between the Grecian style and the founding principles of democracy—signaling a change of taste in service to the larger American cultural ideal. In Athens on the Frontier, Patrick Lee Lucas examines the material culture of Grecian-style buildings in antebellum America to help recover nineteenth-century regional identities. As communities worked to define their built landscape and develop a shared Western identity, Lucas's study invites readers to question many of the assumptions Americans have made about divisions and cultural formation in antebellum society.

Author : Professor Charles W J Withers,Professor Miles Ogborn
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2012-11-28
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781409488545

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Geographies of the Book by Professor Charles W J Withers,Professor Miles Ogborn Pdf

The geography of the book is as old as the history of the book, though far less thoroughly explored. Yet research has increasingly pointed to the spatial dimensions of book history, to the transformation of texts as they are made and moved from place to place, from authors to readers and within different communities and cultures of reception. Widespread recognition of the significance of place, of the effects of movement over space and of the importance of location to the making and reception of print culture has been a feature of recent book history work, and draws in many instances upon studies within the history of science as well as geography. 'Geographies of the Book' explores the complex relationships between the making of books in certain geographical contexts, the movement of books (epistemologically as well as geographically) and the ways in which they are received.

Author : Caroline Winterer
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2016-01-01
Category : Enlightenment
ISBN : 9780300192575

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American Enlightenments by Caroline Winterer Pdf

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Author : Ian Hunter
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 429 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2001-01-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9780521792653

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Rival Enlightenments by Ian Hunter Pdf

A 2001 reinterpretation of early modern German intellectual history, treating the civil and metaphysical philosophers as rival intellectual cultures.

Author : Ilya Lazarev
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2018-08-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9780429818080

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The Enlightenment, Philanthropy and the Idea of Social Progress in Early Australia by Ilya Lazarev Pdf

This book seeks to highlight the influence of the Enlightenment idea of social progress on the character of the "civilising mission" in early Australia by tracing its presence in the various "civilising" attempts undertaken between 1788 and 1850. It also represents an attempt to marry the history of the British Enlightenment and the history of settler-Aboriginal interactions. The chronological structure of the book, as well as the breadth of its content, will facilitate the readers’ understanding of the evolution of "civilising attempts" and their epistemological underpinnings, while throwing additional light on the influence of the Enlightenment on Australian history as a whole.

Author : Ted Binnema
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 483 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2014-01-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781442614758

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Enlightened Zeal by Ted Binnema Pdf

Initially highly secretive about all of its activities, the HBC was by 1870 an exceptionally generous patron of science. Aware of the ways that a commitment to scientific research could burnish its corporate reputation, the company participated in intricate symbiotic networks that linked the HBC as a corporation with individuals and scientific organizations in England, Scotland, and the United States. The pursuit of scientific knowledge could bring wealth and influence, along with tribute, fame, and renown, but science also brought less tangible benefits: adventure, health, happiness, male companionship, self-improvement, or a sense of meaning.

Author : Ritchie Robertson
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 1008 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2020-11-05
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780241004838

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The Enlightenment by Ritchie Robertson Pdf

'The best single-volume study of the Enlightenment that we have' Literary Review The Enlightenment is one of the formative periods of Western history, yet more than 300 years after it began, it remains controversial. It is often seen as the fountainhead of modern values such as human rights, religious toleration, freedom of thought, scientific thought as an exemplary form of reasoning, and rationality and evidence-based argument. Others accuse the Enlightenment of putting forward a scientific rationality which ignores the complexity and variety of human beings, propagates shallow atheism, and aims to subjugate nature to so-called technical progress. Answering the question 'what is Enlightenment?' Kant famously urged men and women above all to 'have the courage to use your own understanding'. Robertson shows how the thinkers of the Enlightenment did just that, seeking a rounded understanding of humanity in which reason was balanced with emotion and sensibility. His book goes behind the controversies about the Enlightenment to return to its original texts and to show that above all it sought to increase human happiness in this world by promoting scientific inquiry and reasoned argument. His book overturns many received opinions - for example, that enlightenment necessarily implied hostility to religion (though it did challenge the authority traditionally assumed by the Churches). It is a master-class in 'big picture' history, about one of the foundational epochs of modern times.

Author : Brian Stanley
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 259 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2014-05-22
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781136865541

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Christian Missions and the Enlightenment by Brian Stanley Pdf

Addresses the nature of the influence of the European Enlightenment on the beliefs and practice of the Protestant missionaries who went to Asia and Africa from the mid-eighteenth century onwards, particularly British missions and the formative role of the Scottish Enlightenment on their thinking.

Author : Nathalie W Herrman
Publisher : Llewellyn Worldwide
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2014-01-01
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 9780738737126

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Daily Enlightenments by Nathalie W Herrman Pdf

Discover spiritual guidance for every day of the year with Daily Enlightenments. In only five minutes of reading each morning, this easy-to-understand and practical tool presents a spiritual truth to keep you grounded throughout the day. These daily contemplations cover a variety of topics designed to encourage self-reflection and mindfulness, including expressions of gratitude for life, how to form good habits, challenging questions about your actions, and more. Each entry concludes with a “take away” summary affirmation about how to effectively apply the spiritual concept to your life. With inspirational images to accompany the entries—including a bonus day for the leap year—this daily reader will bring higher consciousness and serenity to the way you live all year.

Author : Nigel Leask
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2020-02-27
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780198850021

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Stepping Westward by Nigel Leask Pdf

Stepping Westward is the first book dedicated to the literature of the Scottish Highland tour of 1720-1830, a major cultural phenomenon that attracted writers and artists like Pennant, Johnson and Boswell, William and Dorothy Wordsworth, Coleridge, Scott, Hogg, Keats, Daniell, and Turner, as well as numerous less celebrated travellers and tourists. Addressing more than a century's worth of literary and visual representations of the Highlands, the book casts new light on how the tour developed a modern literature of place, acting as a catalyst for thinking about improvement, landscape, and the shaping of British, Scottish, and Gaelic identities. It pays attention to the relationship between travellers and the native Gaels, whose world was plunged into crisis by rapid and forced social change. At the book's core lie the best-selling tours of Pennant and Dr Johnson, associated with attempts to 'improve' the intractable Gaidhealtachd in the wake of Culloden. Alongside the Ossian craze and Gilpin's picturesque, their books stimulated a wave of 'home tours' from the 1770s through the romantic period, including writing by women like Sarah Murray and Dorothy Wordsworth. The incidence of published Highland Tours (many lavishly illustrated), peaked around 1800, but as the genre reached exhaustion, the 'romantic Highlands' were reinvented in Scott's poems and novels, coinciding with steam boats and mass tourism, but also rack-renting, sheep clearance, and emigration.

Author : Simon Burrows
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2018-08-09
Category : History
ISBN : 9781441159137

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The French Book Trade in Enlightenment Europe II by Simon Burrows Pdf

This is a rich and path-breaking comparative study of reading tastes in the final years of old regime Europe. Based on extensive research in the account books of the Swiss publishers, the Société Typographique de Neuchâtel (STN), and related archives, it charts the dissemination of literature and reading tastes across Europe in the years leading up to the French revolution. In the process, it recasts our understanding of late 18th-century print culture and the contours of the enlightenment. The fruit of a widely acclaimed five year database project, the STN database, it is also a story of pioneering efforts to apply the latest digital technology and GIS mapping techniques to traditional historical and bibliographic problems. Although written to serve as a standalone study, this book is ideally complemented by its companion volume, Mark Curran's The French Book Trade in Enlightenment Europe I: Selling Enlightenment, which offers a radical reinterpretation of the structure and practices of the European book trade. The STN database is now recognised as a cutting-edge digital project of global significance. Robert Darnton has called it "a prodigious accomplishment and a joy to use" while Jeremy Popkin adds, "No one working in the field of French Enlightenment studies ... can afford to ignore the rich mine of data that Simon Burrows and his collaborators have made accessible, in an eminently usable form, and the new possibilities it opens up for scholars." The French Book Trade in Enlightenment Europe I and II offer a roadmap of that data and what it can show us.

Author : Per Pippin Aspaas,László Kontler
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 489 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2019-12-02
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789004416833

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Maximilian Hell (1720–92) and the Ends of Jesuit Science in Enlightenment Europe by Per Pippin Aspaas,László Kontler Pdf

The Viennese Jesuit court astronomer Maximilian Hell was a key figure in the eighteenth-century circulation of knowledge. He was already famous by the time of his celebrated 1769 expedition for the observation of the transit of Venus in northern Scandinavia. However, the 1773 suppression of his order forced Hell to develop ingenious strategies of accommodation to changing international and domestic circumstances. Through a study of his career in local, regional, imperial, and global contexts, this book sheds new light on the complex relationship between the Enlightenment, Catholicism, administrative and academic reform in the Habsburg monarchy, and the practices and ends of cultivating science in the Republic of Letters around the end of the first era of the Society of Jesus.

Author : Harry S. Broudy
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 134 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 0252063740

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Enlightened Cherishing by Harry S. Broudy Pdf

Author : William Clark,Jan Golinski,Simon Schaffer
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 586 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 1999-07
Category : History
ISBN : 0226109402

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The Sciences in Enlightened Europe by William Clark,Jan Golinski,Simon Schaffer Pdf

Radically reorienting our understanding of the Enlightenment, this book explores the complex relations between "englightened" values and the making of scientific knowledge. Here monsters and automata, barometers and botanical gardens, polite academics and boisterous clubs, plans for violent wars and for universal peace, are all relocated in the landscape of enlightened Europe. The contributors show how changing forms of discipline, machinery, and instrumentation affected the emergence of new kinds of knowledge; consider how institutions of public rate taste and conversation helped provide a common frame for the study of human and nonhuman natures; and explore the regional operations of scientific culture at the geographical fringes of Europe. Covering a wide range of scientific disciplines, both in the principal European countries and in areas peripheral to Europe, the book also includes ample illustrations and an extensive bibliography. Implicated in the rise of both fascism and liberal secularism, the moral and political values that shaped the Enlightenment remain controversial today. Through careful scrutiny of how these values influenced and were influenced by the concrete practices of its sciences, this book gives us an entirely new sense of the Enlightenment. -- from back cover.