Enlightenment: Britain and the Creation of the Modern World

Enlightenment: Britain and the Creation of the Modern World image
ISBN-10:

014025028X

ISBN-13:

9780140250282

Author(s): Roy, Porter
Edition: New Ed
Released: Dec 04, 2001
Publisher: Penguin Uk
Format: Paperback, 672 pages
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For generations the traditional focus for those wishing to understand the roots of the modern world has been France on the eve of the Revolution. Porter certainly acknowledges France's importance, but here makes an overwhelming case for consideringBritain the true home of modernity - a country driven by an exuberance, diversity and power of invention comparable only to twentieth-century America. Porter immerses the reader in a society which, recovering from the horrors of the Civil War and decisively reinvigorated by the revolution of 1688, had emerged as something new and extraordinary - a society unlike any other in the world.

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