The Roads to Modernity: The British, French and American Enlightenments by Gertrude Himmelfarb
The Roads to Modernity: The British, French and American Enlightenments
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Gertrude Himmelfarb
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The Roads to Modernity: The British, French and American Enlightenments

Gertrude Himmelfarb

304 pages • first pub 2004 (view editions)

nonfiction history philosophy informative reflective medium-paced
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Himmerlfarb demonstrates the primacy and wisdom of the British, exemplified in such thinkers as Adam Smith, David Hume, and Edmund Burke, as well as the unique and enduring contributions of the American Founders. It is their Enlightenments, she ar...

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