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Empire of Reason: How Europe Imagined and America Realized the Enlightenment
Empire of Reason How Europe Imagined and America Realized the Enlightenment
Author: Henry Steele Commager
The foremost American historian of his generation delves into the nation's European origins, illuminating how the new country embodied the principles of the Enlightenment--ideals that Europe, trapped by tradition and privilege, could not itself realize. "...crystalline clarity of...writing [causes] explosions in the reader's mind...history to be...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780297774211
ISBN-10: 0297774212
Publication Date: 2/16/1978
Pages: 360
Edition: 1ST
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Publisher: Littlehampton Book Services (LBS)
Book Type: Hardcover
Other Versions: Paperback
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