The Atlantic Enlightenment
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The Atlantic Enlightenment
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Author : Susan Manning
language : en
Publisher: Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Release Date : 2008
The Atlantic Enlightenment written by Susan Manning and has been published by Ashgate Publishing, Ltd. this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008 with Literary Criticism categories.
Was there an Atlantic Enlightenment? This collection takes up the question, bringing together leading international scholars who cross disciplinary boundaries to offer new insights into the historical, literary, and material conditions that generated a major transatlantic genre of writing. The essays address questions of race, political economy, and the transmission of Enlightenment ideas in literary, political, and religious contexts on both sides of the Atlantic during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.
Enlightenment Now
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Author : Steven Pinker
language : en
Publisher: Penguin UK
Release Date : 2018-02-13
Enlightenment Now written by Steven Pinker and has been published by Penguin UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-02-13 with Philosophy categories.
THE TOP TEN SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER 'Bristles with pure, crystalline intelligence, deep knowledge and human sympathy' Richard Dawkins Is modernity really failing? Or have we failed to appreciate progress and the ideals that make it possible? If you follow the headlines, the world in the 21st century appears to be sinking into chaos, hatred, and irrationality. Yet Steven Pinker shows that this is an illusion - a symptom of historical amnesia and statistical fallacies. If you follow the trendlines rather than the headlines, you discover that our lives have become longer, healthier, safer, happier, more peaceful, more stimulating and more prosperous - not just in the West, but worldwide. Such progress is no accident: it's the gift of a coherent and inspiring value system that many of us embrace without even realizing it. These are the values of the Enlightenment: of reason, science, humanism and progress. The challenges we face today are formidable, including inequality, climate change, Artificial Intelligence and nuclear weapons. But the way to deal with them is not to sink into despair or try to lurch back to a mythical idyllic past; it's to treat them as problems we can solve, as we have solved other problems in the past. In making the case for an Enlightenment newly recharged for the 21st century, Pinker shows how we can use our faculties of reason and sympathy to solve the problems that inevitably come with being products of evolution in an indifferent universe. We will never have a perfect world, but - defying the chorus of fatalism and reaction - we can continue to make it a better one.
Slavery And The Enlightenment In The British Atlantic 1750 1807
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Author : Justin Roberts
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2013-07-08
Slavery And The Enlightenment In The British Atlantic 1750 1807 written by Justin Roberts and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-07-08 with History categories.
This book examines the daily details of slave work routines and plantation agriculture in the eighteenth-century British Atlantic, focusing on case studies of large plantations in Barbados, Jamaica and Virginia. Work was the most important factor in the slaves' experience of the institution. Slaves' day-to-day work routines were shaped by plantation management strategies that drew on broader pan-Atlantic intellectual and cultural principles. Although scholars often associate the late eighteenth-century Enlightenment with the rise of notions of liberty and human rights and the dismantling of slavery, this book explores the dark side of the Enlightenment for plantation slaves. Many planters increased their slaves' workloads and employed supervisory technologies to increase labor discipline in ways that were consistent with the process of industrialization in Europe. British planters offered alternative visions of progress by embracing restrictions on freedom and seeing increasing labor discipline as central to the project of moral and economic improvement.
Enlightened Reform In Southern Europe And Its Atlantic Colonies C 1750 1830
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Author : Dr Gabriel Paquette
language : en
Publisher: Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Release Date : 2013-06-28
Enlightened Reform In Southern Europe And Its Atlantic Colonies C 1750 1830 written by Dr Gabriel Paquette and has been published by Ashgate Publishing, Ltd. this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-06-28 with History categories.
Efforts to ascertain the influence of enlightenment thought on state action, especially government reform, in the long eighteenth century have long provoked stimulating scholarly quarrels. Generations of historians have grappled with the elusive intersections of enlightenment and absolutism, of political ideas and government policy. In order to complement, expand and rejuvenate the debate which has so far concentrated largely on Northern, Central and Eastern Europe, this volume brings together historians of Southern Europe (broadly defined) and its ultramarine empires. Each chapter has been explicitly commissioned to engage with a common set of historiographical issues in order to reappraise specific aspects of 'enlightened absolutism' and 'enlightened reform' as paradigms for the study of Southern Europe and its Atlantic empires. In so doing it engages creatively with pressing issues in the current historical literature and suggests new directions for future research. No single historian, working alone, could write a history that did justice to the complex issues involved in studying the connection between enlightenment ideas and policy-making in Spanish America, Brazil, France, Italy, Portugal and Spain. For this reason, this well-conceived, balanced volume, drawing on the expertise of a small, carefully-chosen cohort, offers an exciting investigation of this historical debate.
The Irish Enlightenment
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Author : Michael Brown
language : en
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Release Date : 2016-05-02
The Irish Enlightenment written by Michael Brown and has been published by Harvard University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-05-02 with History categories.
Scotland and England produced well-known intellectuals during the Enlightenment, but Ireland’s contribution to this revolution in Western thought has received less attention. Michael Brown shows that Ireland also had its Enlightenment, which for a brief time opened up the possibility of a tolerant society, despite a history of sectarian conflict.
Time Of Enlightenment The Time Of Enlightenment
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2020
Time Of Enlightenment The Time Of Enlightenment written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020 with categories.
The Enlightenment And The Book
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Author : Richard B. Sher
language : en
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Release Date : 2008-09-15
The Enlightenment And The Book written by Richard B. Sher and has been published by University of Chicago Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-09-15 with Literary Criticism categories.
The late eighteenth century witnessed an explosion of intellectual activity in Scotland by such luminaries as David Hume, Adam Smith, Hugh Blair, William Robertson, Adam Ferguson, James Boswell, and Robert Burns. And the books written by these seminal thinkers made a significant mark during their time in almost every field of polite literature and higher learning throughout Britain, Europe, and the Americas. In this magisterial history, Richard B. Sher breaks new ground for our understanding of the Enlightenment and the forgotten role of publishing during that period. The Enlightenment and the Book seeks to remedy the common misperception that such classics as The Wealth of Nations and The Life of Samuel Johnson were written by authors who eyed their publishers as minor functionaries in their profession. To the contrary, Sher shows how the process of bookmaking during the late eighteenth-century involved a deeply complex partnership between authors and their publishers, one in which writers saw the book industry not only as pivotal in the dissemination of their ideas, but also as crucial to their dreams of fame and monetary gain. Similarly, Sher demonstrates that publishers were involved in the project of bookmaking in order to advance human knowledge as well as to accumulate profits. The Enlightenment and the Book explores this tension between creativity and commerce that still exists in scholarly publishing today. Lavishly illustrated and elegantly conceived, it will be must reading for anyone interested in the history of the book or the production and diffusion of Enlightenment thought.
The Diplomatic Enlightenment
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Author : Edward Jones Corredera
language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 2021-08-30
The Diplomatic Enlightenment written by Edward Jones Corredera and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-08-30 with Philosophy categories.
This book reconfigures the study of the origins of the Enlightenment in the Spanish Empire. Challenging dominant interpretations of the period, this book shows that early eighteenth-century Spanish authors turned to Enlightenment ideas to reinvent Spain’s role in the European balance of power. And while international law grew to provide a legal framework that could safeguard peace, Spanish officials, diplomats, and authors, hardened by the failure of Spanish diplomacy, sought instead to regulate international relations by drawing on investment, profit, and self-interest. The book shows, on the basis of new archival research, that the Diplomatic Enlightenment sought to turn the Spanish Empire into a space for closer political cooperation with other European and non-European states and empires.
A Most Amazing Scene Of Wonders
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Author : James Delbourgo
language : en
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Release Date : 2006-10-15
A Most Amazing Scene Of Wonders written by James Delbourgo and has been published by Harvard University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006-10-15 with History categories.
"The first book to situate early American experimental science in the context of a transatlantic public sphere, A Most Amazing Scene of Wonders offers a view of the origins of American science and the cultural meaning of the American Enlightenment."--BOOK JACKET.
The Irish Enlightenment
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Author : Michael Brown
language : en
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Release Date : 2016-05-02
The Irish Enlightenment written by Michael Brown and has been published by Harvard University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-05-02 with History categories.
Chapter 7. A Culture of Trust? -- Chapter 8. Fracturing the Irish Enlightenment -- Chapter 9. An Enlightened Civil War -- Conclusion: Ireland's Missing Modernity -- Notes -- Acknowledgements -- Index