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The empire of reason: how Europe imagined and America realized the enlightenment

Henry Steele Commager 1977 © Mary Commager
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ISBN(s)
  • 9780385116725 (hardcover)
  • 9780385120036 (paper)
Subject
  • European: 1400-1800
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  • Frontmatter
  • I The Enlightenment as an Age of Discovery (page 1)
  • II The Enlightenment Spreads to America (page 15)
  • III The Enlightenment Unveils a New World of Nature and of Man (page 40)
  • IV America Under Attack (page 71)
  • V The Enlightenment Vindicates America (page 85)
  • VI The Enlightenment Celebrates the Spirit of the Laws (page 109)
  • VII "The Uncorrupted New States and the Corrupted Old" (page 119)
  • VIII Americans Bring Forth a New Nation (page 162)
  • IX Americans Realize the Theories of the Wisest Writers (page 176)
  • X The Blessings of Liberty (page 198)
  • APPENDIX The Term "Philosophe" (page 236)
  • INDEX (page 321)
Reviews
Journal AbbreviationLabelURL
HEQ 19.3 (Autumn 1979): 351-360 http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0018-2680%28197923%2919%3A3%3C351%3AIPOAEP%3E2.0.CO%3B2-W
AHR 84.3 (Jun.1979): 843 http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0002-8762%28197906%2984%3A3%3C843%3ATEORHE%3E2.0.CO%3B2-A
AQ 30.2 (Summer 1978): 243-252 http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0003-0678%28197822%2930%3A2%3C243%3AIATAE%3E2.0.CO%3B2-Q
PSQ 93.1 (Spring 1978): 113-114 http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0032-3195%28197821%2993%3A1%3C113%3ATEORHE%3E2.0.CO%3B2-B
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