The Enlightenment
After having long been dismissed as a shallow irrelevance, the Enlightenment has now been rehabilitated as a major European movement in ideas and culture. Recent historical writing has shown how it was more than the airy philosophisings of a coterie of in
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Studies in European History General Editor: Richard Overy Editorial Consultants: John Breuilly Roy Porter PUBLISHED TITLES Jeremy Black A Military Revolution? Military Change
and European Society 1550-1800 T. C. W Blanning The French Revolution: Aristocrats versus Bourgeois? John Breuilly The Formation of the First German Nation-State, 1800-1871 Peter Burke The Renaissance Michael Dockrill The Cold War 1945-1963 William Dayle The Ancien Regime Geoffrey Ellis The Napoleonic Empire Donald A. Filtzer The Khrushchev Era: De-Stalinism and the Limits of Reform in the USSR, 1953-1964 Mary Fulbrook The Two Germanies, 1945-1990 R. G. Geary European Labour Politics from 1900 to the Depression Graerne Gill Stalinism Henry Kamen Golden Age Spain Richard Mackenney The City-State 1500-1700: Republican Liberty in an Age of Princely Power Andrew Porter European Imperialism 1860-1914 Ray Porter The Enlightenment Roger Price The Revolutions of 1848 Jarnes Retallack Germany in the Age of Kaiser Wilhelm II Geoffrey Scarre Witchcraft and Magic in 16th and 17th Century Europe R. W Scribner The German Reformation Robert Service The Russian Revolution 1900-1927, Second Edition FORTHCOMING R. G. Bonney The Rise of European Absolutism Brendan Bradshaw The Counter-Reformation David Cesarani The Holocaust Hugh Gough The Terror of the French Revolution John Henry The Scientific Revolution David Stevenson The First World War Clive Trebilcock Problems in European Industrialisation
1800-1914
THE ENLIGHTENMENT ROY PORTER
The Wellcome Institute for the Histmy of Medicine, London
© Roy Porter 1990
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