Enlightenment and Reform in Eighteenth-Century Europe (International Library of Historical Studies)
Contributors: Hamish Scott (Introduction)
Publisher: I. B. Tauris
Published: May 19, 2005
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 256
ISBN-13: 9781860649493
Subjects: European history: c 1500 to c 1750; European history: c 1750 to c 1900; History of ideas, intellectual history; c 1700 to c 1800; History - General History; Europe; History; History: World; Europe - General; History / Europe / General; Enlightenment; 18th century; Politics and government
First sentence: Enlightened ideas and attitudes, and the policies influenced by them, are commonly explained by twentieth-century historians as in some sense the product of social forces - perhaps as the result of pressure exerted from below by a class or classes or groups, perhaps as the outcome of less easily identified but more fundamental economic and social tendencies.