Fire and light: how the enlightenment transformed our world

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Pulitzer Prize-winning and bestselling historian James MacGregor Burns explores the most daring and transformational intellectual movement in history, the European and American Enlightenment In this engaging, provocative history, James MacGregor Burns brilliantly illuminates the two-hundred-year conflagration of the Enlightenment, when audacious questions and astonishing ideas tore across Europe and the New World, transforming thought, overturning governments, and inspiring visionary political …

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Full title :Fire and light : how the enlightenment transformed our world / James MacGregor Burns.

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Edition Statements

Publication Date:2013
Edition:First U.S. edition

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's Press
Place of Publication:New York
Language:eng
Publication Date:2013

Notes

Includes index.

The Physical Object

Description:ix, 388 pages ; : 25 cm

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9781250024909, 1250024900, 9781250024893, 1250024897, 9781250053923, 1250053927
oclc:ocn827256844
LC Classification:B802
Dewey Decimal:940.2/5

Subjects

02.01 history of science and culture Aufklärung Enlightenment Enlightenment -- France Enlightenment -- Great Britain Enlightenment -- Influence Enlightenment -- United States Europa Europe France Great Britain Histoire History history (discipline) Siècle des Lumières -- États-Unis Siècle des Lumières -- France Siècle des Lumières -- Grande-Bretagne Siècle des Lumières -- Influence United States Upplysningen -- influenser