The wreckage of intentions: projects in British culture, 1660-1730
by Alff, David
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The wreckage of intentions: projects in British culture, 1660-1730
by Alff, David
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The wreckage of intentions: projects inBritish culture, 1660-1730
by Alff, David
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Wreckage of Intentions
by Alff, David
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The wreckage of intentions: projects in British culture, 1660-1730
by Alff, David
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The seventeenth and eighteenth centuries in Britain saw the proposal of so many endeavors called "projects"--A catchphrase for the daring, sometimes dangerous practice of shaping the future--that Daniel Defoe dubbed his era a "Projecting Age." These ideas spanned a wide variety …
The wreckage of intentions: projects in British culture, 1660-1730
by Alff, David
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The Wreckage of Intentions offers a comprehensive account of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century projects--concrete yet incomplete efforts to advance British society during a period defined by revolutions in finance and agriculture, the rise of experimental science, and the esta…