A Nation Transformed
Subtitle: England after the Restoration
Contributors: Alan Houston (Editor); Steve Pincus (Editor)
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: August 20, 2001
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 348
ISBN-13: 9780521802529
Subjects: British & Irish history: c 1500 to c 1700; c 1600 to c 1700; Great Britain; Congresses; Western Europe - General; History - General History; Restoration, 1660-1688; History: World; British Isles; England; History; Europe - Great Britain - General; Great Britain--History--Restoration, 1660-1688--Congresses; History / Great Britain; Civilization; 17th century
First sentence: In his book The Secularization of the European Mind in the Nineteenth Century, Owen Chadwick looks back to 'the years between 1650 and 1750, the age of Sir Isaac Newton and Leibniz, of Fontenelle and Spinoza, of John Locke and David Hume, and finally of Diderot and Voltaire'.