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The Rise of the Public in Enlightenment Europe

Author : James Van Horn Melton
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2001-09-06
Category : History
ISBN : 0521469694

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The Rise of the Public in Enlightenment Europe by James Van Horn Melton Pdf

James Melton examines the rise of the public in 18th-century Europe. A work of comparative synthesis focusing on England, France and the German-speaking territories, this a reassessment of what Habermas termed the bourgeois public sphere.

The Economic Turn

Author : Steven Kaplan,Sophus Reinert
Publisher : Anthem Press
Page : 881 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2019-01-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9781783088577

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The Economic Turn by Steven Kaplan,Sophus Reinert Pdf

The mid-eighteenth century witnessed what might be dubbed an economic turn that resolutely changed the trajectory of world history. The discipline of economics itself emerged amidst this turn, and it is frequently traced back to the work of François Quesnay and his school of Physiocracy. Though lionized by the subsequent historiography of economics, the theoretical postulates and policy consequences of Physiocracy were disastrous at the time, resulting in a veritable subsistence trauma in France. This galvanized relentless and diverse critiques of the doctrine not only in France but also throughout the European world that have, hitherto, been largely neglected by scholars. Though Physiocracy was an integral part of the economic turn, it was rapidly overcome, both theoretically and practically, with durable and important consequences for the history of political economy. The Economic Turn brings together some of the leading historians of that moment to fundamentally recast our understanding of the origins and diverse natures of political economy in the Enlightenment.

The Enlightenment

Author : Dorinda Outram
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 186 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2005-09-08
Category : History
ISBN : 0521837766

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The Enlightenment by Dorinda Outram Pdf

Debate over the meaning of 'Enlightenment' began in the eighteenth century and has continued unabated until our own times. This period saw the opening of arguments on the nature of man, truth, on the place of God, and the international circulation of ideas, people and gold. Did the Enlightenment mean the same for men and women, for rich and poor, for Europeans and non-Europeans? In the second edition of her book, Dorinda Outram addresses these, and other questions about the Enlightenment. She studies it as a global phenomenon, setting the period against broader social changes. This new edition offers a fresh introduction, a new chapter on slavery, and new material on the Enlightenment as a global phenomenon. The bibliography and short biographies have been extended. This accessible synthesis of scholarship will prove invaluable reading to students of eighteenth-century history, philosophy, and the history of ideas.

Strangers Nowhere in the World

Author : Margaret C. Jacob
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2016-12-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9780812294231

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The mingling of aristocrats and commoners in a southern French city, the jostling of foreigners in stock markets across northern and western Europe, the club gatherings in Paris and London of genteel naturalists busily distilling plants or making air pumps, the ritual fraternizing of "brothers" in privacy and even secrecy—Margaret Jacob invokes all these examples in Strangers Nowhere in the World to provide glimpses of the cosmopolitan ethos that gradually emerged over the course of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Jacob investigates what it was to be cosmopolitan in Europe during the early modern period. Then—as now—being cosmopolitan meant the ability to experience people of different nations, creeds, and colors with pleasure, curiosity, and interest. Yet such a definition did not come about automatically, nor could it always be practiced easily by those who embraced its principles. Cosmopolites had to strike a delicate balance between the transgressive and the subversive, the radical and the dangerous, the open-minded and the libertine. Jacob traces the history of this precarious balancing act to illustrate how ideals about cosmopolitanism were eventually transformed into lived experiences and practices. From the representatives of the Inquisition who found the mixing of Catholics and Protestants and other types of "border crossing" disruptive to their authority, to the struggles within urbane masonic lodges to open membership to Jews, Jacob also charts the moments when the cosmopolitan impulse faltered. Jacob pays particular attention to the impact of science and merchant life on the emergence of the cosmopolitan ideal. In the decades after 1650, modern scientific practices coalesced and science became an open enterprise. Experiments were witnessed in social settings of natural inquiry, congenial for the inculcation of cosmopolitan mores. Similarly, the public venues of the stock exchanges brought strangers and foreigners together in ways encouraging them to be cosmopolites. The amount of international and global commerce increased greatly after 1700, and luxury tastes developed that valorized foreign patterns and designs. Drawing upon sources as various as Inquisition records and spy reports, minutes of scientific societies and the writings of political revolutionaries, Strangers Nowhere in the World reveals a moment in European history when an ideal of cultural openness came to seem strong enough to counter centuries of chauvinism and xenophobia. Perhaps at no time since, Jacob cautions, has that cosmopolitan ideal seemed more fragile and elusive than it is today.

The Sciences in Enlightened Europe

Author : William Clark,Jan Golinski,Simon Schaffer
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 586 pages
File Size : 40,7 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.

Into Print

Author : George Charles Walton
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780271050126

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Into Print by George Charles Walton Pdf

"A collection of essays examining how print culture shaped the legacy of the Enlightenment. Explores the challenges, contradictions, and dilemmas modern European societies have encountered since the eighteenth century in trying to define, spread, and realize Enlightenment ideas and values"--Provided by publisher.

The French Book Trade in Enlightenment Europe I

Author : Mark Curran
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2018-08-09
Category : History
ISBN : 9781441111692

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The French Book Trade in Enlightenment Europe I by Mark Curran Pdf

This volume is a ground-breaking contribution to enlightenment studies and the international and cross-cultural history of print. The result of a five year research project, the volume traces the output and dissemination of books and how reading tastes changed in the years 1769-1794. Mapping the book trade of the Société Typographique de Neuchâtel (STN), a Swiss publisher-wholesaler which operated throughout Europe, the authors reconstruct the cosmopolitan elite culture of the later enlightenment, incorporating many engaging case studies. The STN's archives are uniquely rich in both detail and range, and while these archives have long attracted book historians (notably Robert Darnton, a leading scholar of the Enlightenment), existing work is fragmentary and limited in scope. By means of comparative study, the author considers the entire book market across Europe, making local, regional and chronological nuances, based on advanced taxonomies of subject content, author information, markers of illegality and much more. This volume is, in short, the most diverse and detailed study of the late 18th-century book trade yet, while offering fresh insights into the enlightenment.

The Eighteenth Centuries

Author : David T. Gies,Cynthia Wall
Publisher : University of Virginia Press
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2018-02-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9780813940762

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The Eighteenth Centuries by David T. Gies,Cynthia Wall Pdf

Today, when "globalization" is a buzzword invoked in nearly every realm, we turn back to the eighteenth century and witness the inherent globalization of its desires and, at times, its accomplishments. During the chronological eighteenth century, learning and knowledge were intimately connected across disciplinary and geographical boundaries, yet the connections themselves are largely unstudied. In The Eighteenth Centuries, twenty-two scholars across disciplines address the idea of plural Enlightenments and a global eighteenth century, transcending the demarcations that long limited our grasp of the period’s breadth and depth. Engaging concepts that span divisions of chronology and continent, these essays address topics ranging from mechanist biology, painted geographies, and revolutionary opera to Americanization, theatrical subversion of marriage, and plantation architecture. Weaving together many disparate threads of the historical tapestry we call the Enlightenment, this volume illuminates our understanding of the interconnectedness of the eighteenth centuries.

Exploring European Frontiers

Author : B. Dolan
Publisher : Springer
Page : 237 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2000-03-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9780230288980

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Exploring European Frontiers by B. Dolan Pdf

The explorations of eighteenth-century travellers to the 'European frontiers' were often geared to define the cultural, political, and historical boundaries of 'European civilization.' In an age when political revolutions shocked nations into reassessing what separated the civilised from the barbaric, how did literary travellers contemplate the characteristics of their continental neighbours? Focusing on the writings of British travellers, we see how a new view of Europe was created, one that juxtaposed the customs and living conditions of populations in an attempt to define 'modern' Europe against a 'yet unenlightened' Europe.

Commerce and Peace in the Enlightenment

Author : Béla Kapossy,Isaac Nakhimovsky,Richard Whatmore
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 363 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2017-07-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9781108416559

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Commerce and Peace in the Enlightenment by Béla Kapossy,Isaac Nakhimovsky,Richard Whatmore Pdf

This volume offers a new history of the relationship between commerce and politics, from the eighteenth century to the present.

Beyond the Witch Trials

Author : Owen Davies,Willem De Blécourt
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2004-11-27
Category : History
ISBN : 0719066603

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Beyond the Witch Trials by Owen Davies,Willem De Blécourt Pdf

Beyond the witch trials provides an important collection of essays on the nature of witchcraft and magic in European society during the Enlightenment. The book is innovative not only because it pushes forward the study of witchcraft into the eighteenth century, but because it provides the reader with a challenging variety of different approaches and sources of information. The essays, which cover England, Netherlands, Spain, Italy, Germany, Scotland, Finland and Sweden, examine the experience of and attitudes towards witchcraft from both above and below. While they demonstrate the continued widespread fear of witches amongst the masses, they also provide a corrective to the notion that intellectual society lost interest in the question of witchcraft. While witchcraft prosecutions were comparatively rare by the mid-eighteenth century, the intellectual debate did no disappear; it either became more private or refocused on such issues as possession. The contributors come from different academic disciplines, and by borrowing from literary theory, archaeology and folklore they move beyond the usual historical perspectives and sources. They emphasise the importance of studying such themes as the aftermath of witch trials, the continued role of cunning-folk in society, and the nature of the witchcraft discourse in different social contexts. This book will be essential reading for those interested in the decline of the European witch trials and the continued importance of witchcraft and magic during the Enlightenment. More generally it will appeal to those with a lively interest in the cultural history of the late seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. This is the first of a two-volume set of books looking at the phenomenon of witchcraft, magic and the occult in Europe since the seventeenth century.

Changing Perceptions of the Public Sphere

Author : Christian J. Emden,David Midgley
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 217 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2012-07-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9780857455000

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Changing Perceptions of the Public Sphere by Christian J. Emden,David Midgley Pdf

British and US scholars of German literature and culture assess the nature of public communications and the molding of public opinion in historical situations ranging from the late Middle Ages to the 20th century. In particular they look at the representation of the public sphere in literary writing a half century after the German original of Jürgen Habermas' The Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere was published. Their overall themes are publics before the public sphere, thinking about Enlightenment publics, and cultural politics and literary publics. Annotation ©2012 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com).

Language Choice in Enlightenment Europe

Author : Vladislav Rjéoutski,Willem Frijhoff
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Enlightenment
ISBN : 9462984719

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Language Choice in Enlightenment Europe by Vladislav Rjéoutski,Willem Frijhoff Pdf

This multinational collection of essays challenges the traditional image of a monolingual Ancient Regime in Enlightenment Europe, both East and West. Its archival research explores the important role played by selective language use in social life and in the educational provisions in the early constitution of modern society. A broad range of case studies show how language was viewed and used symbolically by social groups - ranging from the nobility to the peasantry - to develop, express, and mark their identities.

Absolutism and the Eighteenth-Century Origins of Compulsory Schooling in Prussia and Austria

Author : James van Horn Melton
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2003-11-13
Category : Education
ISBN : 0521528569

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Absolutism and the Eighteenth-Century Origins of Compulsory Schooling in Prussia and Austria by James van Horn Melton Pdf

This 1988 book is a study of precocious attempts at school reform in societies that were overwhelmingly 'premodern'.

Castlereagh

Author : John Bew
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 722 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : History
ISBN : 9780199931590

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Castlereagh by John Bew Pdf

"First published in Great Britain in 2011 by Quercus as Castlereagh: Enlightenment, war and tyranny"--T.p. verso.