Very Short Introductions The Enlightenment: A Very Short Introduction, (Paperback)

from ValeStrasse

This is a thematic summary, rather than a chronological one, which makes it helpful, but probably not the best "introduction" to the period that the title implies.

from jasoncomely

One major takeaway from this book is that the study of history and other cultures, religions, economies can help identify and conceptualize problems in our own. History was a tool great thinkers like Voltaire, Gibbons and others used to inform their arguments and advance society. Overall, this wa...

from jasoncomely

One major takeaway from this book is that the study of history and other cultures, religions, economies can help identify and conceptualize problems in our own. History was a tool great thinkers like Voltaire, Gibbons and others used to inform their arguments and advance society. Overall, this wa...