Title: The shape of the new
Description: Examines "Adam Smith, Thomas Jefferson, Alexander Hamilton, Charles Darwin, and Karl Marx--heirs of the Enlightenment who embodied its highest ideals about progress--and shows how their thoughts, over time and in the hands of their followers and opponents, transformed the very nature of our beliefs, institutions, economies, and politics"--Amazon.com.
Subjects: Intellectual life, History, Modern Civilization, Modern Philosophy, Civilization, modern, Philosophy, modern, history
People: Adam Smith (1723-1790), Charles Darwin (1809-1882), Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826), Alexander Hamilton (1757-1804), Karl Marx (1818-1883)