The Roads to Modernity
Author: Himmelfarb, Gertrude
ISBN: 9781845951412
Publisher: RANDOM HOUSE UK
Year first published: 01 May 2008
Pages: 304
Format: Paperback / softback
A keenly argued and thought-provoking history of the British, French and American Enlightenments with an introduction by Gordon Brown.
Gertrude Himmelfarb's elegant and wonderfully readable work, The Roads to Modernity, reclaims the Enlightenment from historians who have downgraded its importance and from scholars who have given preeminence to the Enlightenment in France over concurrent movements in England and in America.
Himmerlfarb demonstrates the primacy and wisdom of the British, exemplified in such thinkers as Adam Smith, David Hume, and Edmund Burke, as well as the unique and enduring contributions of the American Founders. It is their Enlightenments, she argues, that created a social ethic - humane, compassionate and realistic - that still resonates strongly today.
ISBN: 9781845951412
Publisher: RANDOM HOUSE UK
Year first published: 01 May 2008
Pages: 304
Format: Paperback / softback
A keenly argued and thought-provoking history of the British, French and American Enlightenments with an introduction by Gordon Brown.
Gertrude Himmelfarb's elegant and wonderfully readable work, The Roads to Modernity, reclaims the Enlightenment from historians who have downgraded its importance and from scholars who have given preeminence to the Enlightenment in France over concurrent movements in England and in America.
Himmerlfarb demonstrates the primacy and wisdom of the British, exemplified in such thinkers as Adam Smith, David Hume, and Edmund Burke, as well as the unique and enduring contributions of the American Founders. It is their Enlightenments, she argues, that created a social ethic - humane, compassionate and realistic - that still resonates strongly today.
