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Pulitzer Prize-winning and bestselling historian James MacGregor Burns explores the most daring and transformational intellectual movement in history, the European and American Enlightenment In this engaging, provocative history, James MacGregor Burns brilliantly illuminates the two-hundred-year conflagration of the Enlightenment, when audacious questions and astonishing ideas tore across Europe and the New World, transforming thought, overturning governments, and inspiring visionary political experiments.
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2 editions- Paperback · English · 2014St Martin s Griffin · 400 pages · 9781250053923
- Other · English · 2013Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's Press · 388 pages · 9781250024893
EnlightenmentInfluenceUpplysningenHistoryInfluenser02.01 history of science and cultureAufklärungHistorians, united states