Ebook: The Scottish Enlightenment: Race, Gender, and the Limits of Progress
Author: Silvia Sebastiani (auth.)
- Tags: European History, Modern History, Social History, History of Britain and Ireland, History of Philosophy, Cultural History
- Series: Palgrave Studies in Cultural and Intellectual History
- Year: 2013
- Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan US
- Edition: 1
- Language: English
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Examines how the difference between monogenist and polygenist accounts of the origin of the human race was reflected in, and helped to shape, Scottish Enlightenment accounts of society's progress through historical stages. Reveals how concepts of race and the role of women were treated by historians, philosophers, and other thinkers.
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