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A major new history of how the Enlightenment transformed people's
everyday lives The Secular Enlightenment is a panoramic account of
the radical ways that life began to change for ordinary people in
the age of Locke, Voltaire, and Rousseau. In this landmark book,
familiar Enlightenment figures share places with voices that have
remained largely unheard until now, from freethinkers and
freemasons to French materialists, anticlerical Catholics,
pantheists, pornographers, readers, and travelers. Margaret Jacob,
one of our most esteemed historians of the Enlightenment, reveals
how this newly secular outlook was not a wholesale rejection of
Christianity but rather a new mental space in which to encounter
the world on its own terms. She takes readers from London and
Amsterdam to Berlin, Vienna, Turin, and Naples, drawing on rare
archival materials to show how ideas central to the emergence of
secular democracy touched all facets of daily life. Human frailties
once attributed to sin were now viewed through the lens of the
newly conceived social sciences. People entered churches not to
pray but to admire the architecture, and spent their Sunday
mornings reading a newspaper or even a risque book. The
secular-minded pursued their own temporal and commercial well-being
without concern for the life hereafter, regarding their successes
as the rewards for their actions, their failures as the result of
blind economic forces. A majestic work of intellectual and cultural
history, The Secular Enlightenment demonstrates how secular values
and pursuits took hold of eighteenth-century Europe, spilled into
the American colonies, and left their lasting imprint on the
Western world for generations to come.
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Western Civilization - Ideas, Politics, and Society, Volume II: From 1600 (Paperback, 11th edition)
Marvin Perry, Theodore von Laue, Margaret Jacob, James Jacob, Myrna Chase, …
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WESTERN CIVILIZATION: IDEAS, POLITICS, AND SOCIETY, Eleventh
Edition, offers an in-depth introduction to political, cultural,
and intellectual history. Readers appreciate the book's accessible
writing style as well as its brevity, clarity, and careful
selection of content. Updated with more recent scholarship, the
eleventh edition retains many popular features that help readers
absorb and understand the material, including comparative
timelines, full-color art essays, and profile and primary source
boxes in each chapter.
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Western Civilization - Ideas, Politics, and Society (Paperback, 11th edition)
Marvin Perry, Theodore von Laue, Margaret Jacob, James Jacob, Myrna Chase, …
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WESTERN CIVILIZATION: IDEAS, POLITICS, AND SOCIETY, Eleventh
Edition, offers an in-depth introduction to political, cultural,
and intellectual history. Readers appreciate the book's accessible
writing style as well as its brevity, clarity, and careful
selection of content. Updated with more recent scholarship, the
eleventh edition retains many popular features that help readers
absorb and understand the material, including comparative
timelines, full-color art essays, and profile and primary source
boxes in each chapter.
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Western Civilization - Ideas, Politics, and Society, Volume II: From 1600 (Paperback, International Edition)
Marvin Perry, Theodore H. Von Laue, Margaret Jacob, James Jacob, Myrna Chase
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WESTERN CIVILIZATION, Tenth Edition, maintains a firm grounding in
political history, while covering intellectual history
(particularly the significance of ideas and contributions) to
greater and deeper extent than any other text for the course. Known
for its accessible writing style, this text appeals to students and
instructors alike for its brevity, clarity, and careful selection
of content including its enhanced focus on religion and philosophy.
Updated with more recent scholarship, the Tenth edition retains
many popular features, including comparative timelines, full-color
art essays, profiles, and primary source boxes in each chapter. New
technology resources (available separately), including CourseMate
with interactive eBook, make learning more engaging and bring
history concepts to life.
A major history of how the Enlightenment transformed people's
everyday lives The Secular Enlightenment is a panoramic account of
the radical ways life began to change for ordinary people in the
age of Locke, Voltaire, and Rousseau. In this landmark book,
familiar Enlightenment figures share places with voices that have
remained largely unheard until now, from freethinkers and
freemasons to French materialists, anticlerical Catholics,
pantheists, pornographers, and travelers. Margaret Jacob takes
readers from London and Amsterdam to Berlin, Vienna, Turin, and
Naples, drawing on rare archival materials to show how ideas
central to the emergence of secular democracy touched all facets of
daily life. A majestic work of intellectual and cultural history,
The Secular Enlightenment demonstrates how secular values and
pursuits took hold of eighteenth-century Europe, spilled into the
American colonies, and left their lasting imprint on the Western
world for generations to come.
"It is hard to think of three historians better equipped to deal with threats to the discipline of history . . . [which] is being fundamentallychallenged in new ways." Gordon S. Wood, The New Republic
"A wise and moderate book. The authors, all distinguished historians . . . ,speak with confidence about the value of both the historian's traditional craftand modern criticism of it. Their sane and readable discussion should give hopeto [those] who . . . believe in the possibilityeven the pleasureof writing history." Caroline Walker Bynum "A fascinating historiographical essay. . . . An unusually lucid and inclusiveexplication of what it ultimately at stake in the culture wars over the nature,goals, and efficacy of history as a discipline." Booklist "A confident, breezy account of the historical profession's encounters withpost-modernism and multiculturalism." David A. Hollinger, New York Times Book Review
This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book
may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages,
poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the
original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We
believe this work is culturally important, and despite the
imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of
our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works
worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in
the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book.
Completely matching the syllabus, this book equips students with
the knowledge, skills and attitudes to function effectively in a
modern office environment. It also seeks to nurture and improve
students' social responsibility, personal management skills and
positive work ethics, as well as providing the foundation for
further business education.
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Western Civilization - Ideas, Politics, and Society, Volume I: To 1789 (Paperback, 11th edition)
Marvin Perry, Theodore von Laue, Margaret Jacob, James Jacob, Myrna Chase, …
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WESTERN CIVILIZATION: IDEAS, POLITICS, AND SOCIETY, Eleventh
Edition, offers an in-depth introduction to political, cultural,
and intellectual history. Readers appreciate the book's accessible
writing style as well as its brevity, clarity, and careful
selection of content. Updated with more recent scholarship, the
eleventh edition retains many popular features that help readers
absorb and understand the material, including comparative
timelines, full-color art essays, and profile and primary source
boxes in each chapter.
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Western Civilization - Ideas, Politics, and Society: Since 1400 (Paperback, 11th edition)
Marvin Perry, Theodore von Laue, Margaret Jacob, James Jacob, Myrna Chase, …
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WESTERN CIVILIZATION: IDEAS, POLITICS, AND SOCIETY, Since 1400,
Eleventh Edition, offers an in-depth introduction to political,
cultural, and intellectual history. Readers appreciate the book's
accessible writing style as well as its brevity, clarity, and
careful selection of content. Updated with more recent scholarship,
the eleventh edition retains many popular features that help
readers absorb and understand the material, including comparative
timelines, full-color art essays, and profile and primary source
boxes in each chapter.
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