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 …