Ebook: Enlightenment: Britain and the creation of the modern world
Author: Porter Roy
- Tags: British & Irish History, Enlightenment, Enlightenment--Great Britain, HISTORY--Europe--Great Britain--General, HISTORY--Modern--General, Intellectual life, Modern History To 20th Century: C 1700 To C 1900, Social conditions, History, Enlightenment -- Great Britain, Great Britain -- History -- 18th century, Great Britain -- Intellectual life -- 18th century, Great Britain -- Social conditions -- 18th century, HISTORY -- Europe -- Great Britain -- General, HISTORY -- Modern -- General, Great Britain
- Year: 1990
- Publisher: Penguin
- City: Great Britain
- Language: English
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Product Description
For generations the traditional focus for those wishing to understand the roots of the modern world has been France on the eve of the Revolution. Porter certainly acknowledges France's importance, but here makes an overwhelming case for considering Britain the true home of modernity - a country driven by an exuberance, diversity and power of invention comparable only to twentieth-century America. Porter immerses the reader in a society which, recovering from the horrors of the Civil War and decisively reinvigorated by the revolution of 1688, had emerged as something new and extraordinary - a society unlike any other in the world.
About the Author
Roy Porter is Professor in the Social History of Medicine at the Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine, London.