Inventing Human Science
Subtitle: Eighteenth-Century Domains
Contributors: Christopher Fox (Editor); Roy Porter (Editor); Robert Wokler (Editor)
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: October 6, 1995
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 357
ISBN-13: 9780520200104
Subjects: History of ideas, intellectual history; History of science; Psychology; Social history; Sociology, Social Studies; c 1700 to c 1800; History - General History; 18th Century World History; Intellectual History; Social sciences; Philosophy; History; Modern - 18th Century; History / General; History / Modern / 18th Century; Science-History; 18th century; Enlightenment
First sentence: The discovery of the New World and the need to devise appropriate colonial policies in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries inspired much Christian speculation about the moral condition and treatment of savages and slaves.