The Creation of the Modern World
Subtitle: The Untold Story of the British Enlightenment
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: November 2001
Language: eng
Number of pages: 768
ISBN-13: 9780393322682
First sentence: The year 1783 brought the launching not just of the American Republic but also, more modestly, of the Berliner Mittwochgesellschaft (Wednesday Club), a debating society typical of those then sprouting in German cities.