The age of reason
Subtitle: (1700-1789)
By: Harold Nicolson ; with a new foreword by Adam Nicolson.
Publisher: Axios
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Mt. Jackson, VA
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781604190113
Subjects: Civilization, Modern -- 18th century; Intellectual life -- History -- 18th century; Eighteenth century; Enlightenment
Notes: Originally published: London : Constable, 1960.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Courtly standards (Saint Simon, 1675-1755); title: Rationalism (Pierre Bayle, 1647-1706); title: Setting sun (Louis XIV, 1700-1715); title: The emergence of Muscovy (Peter the Great, 1672-1725); title: Skepticism (Voltaire, 1694-1778); title: Philosopher king (Frederick the Great, 1712-1786); title: Semiramis (Catherine the Great, 1729-1796); title: Complacency (Joseph Addison, 1672-1719); title: Savage pessimism (Jonathan Swift, 1667-1745); title: Thirteen colonies (1492-1783); title: The simple man (Franklin, 1706-1790); title: The salons (1660-1789); title: Dilettante (Horace Walpole, 1717-1797); title: Free thought (The Encyclopédie, 1751-1772); title: Disintegration (Louis XV, 1715-1774); title: Gullibility (Cagliostro, 1743-1795); title: Solid sense (Samuel Johnson, 1709-1784); title: Sturm und Drang (1770-1778); title: Rights of man (Thomas Paine, 1737-1809); title: Religious revival (John Wesley, 1703-1791); title: Sensibility (Jean Jacques Rousseau, 1712-1778).