Enlightenment : Britain and the Creation of the Modern World

ISBN-13: 9780140250282 / Angielski / Miękka / 2001 / 752 str.

Roy Porter

Opis

For generations the focus for those wishing to understand the roots of the modern world has been France on the eve of the Revolution. Porter certainly acknowledges France's importance, but makes a case for considering Britain the true home of modernity - a country driven by an exuberance, diversity and power of invention comparable only to 20th-century America.

O autorze

Roy Porter is Professor in the Social History of Medicine at the Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine, London.