The Idea of Progress in Eighteenth-Century Britain

von David Spadafora

484 Seiten, Hardcover

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

The idea of progress stood at the very center of the intellectual world of eighteenth-century Britain, closely linked to every major facet of the British Enlightenment as well as to the economic revolutions of the period. Drawing on hundreds of eighteenth-century books and pamphlets, David Spadafora here provides the most extensive discussion ever written of this prevailing sense of historical optimism.

• Reihe: Yale University Press
• ISBN: 9780300046717
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 01.09.1990
• Größe: 234 x 156 mm
• Verlag: Yale University Press