The Enlightenment and the Origins of European Australia
Edition: New Ed edition
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: December 15, 2005
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 247
ISBN-13: 9780521617215
Subjects: Humanities; History - General History; Political Science; Politics/International Relations; Australia & New Zealand - Australia; Political Science / History & Theory; History & Theory - General
First sentence: Civilisations like to create monuments in stone but what sustains and shapes them are edifices of the mind - beliefs and sets of ideas which determine their view of the proper ordering of things whether of society or of the universe at large.