The Creation of the Modern World, (Paperback)

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Providing an overview of the intellectual discoveries of this exciting period of British history, Roy Porter's book is dense and benefits from an existing knowledge of the history he wishes to tell. Although an understanding of the changes to religious thought during the period are impotence in u...

from vguy

Disappointing, I liked his history of medicine and keen to follow through on the Enlightenment after reading A C Grayling. This is a kind of omnium gatherum of British intellectual life in the whole period from Restoration to Waterloo. Darts about confusingly in the chronology. But worse, crams i...

from AlexTheHunn

Porter guides the reader through the changes that are hallmarks of the Enlightenment as they transpired in and apply to Britain. Specifically he contends that the Enlightenment was every bit as much a British phenomenon as it was French and German.