Enlightenment: Britain and the Creation of the Modern World (平装)

分类: 图书,进口原版书,History(历史),Ancient(古代),Early Civilization,
品牌: Roy Porter
基本信息出版社:Penguin (2001年11月1日)平装:752页正文语种:英语ISBN:014025028X条形码:9780140250282产品尺寸及重量:19.8 x 12.4 x 3.2 cm ; 481 gASIN:014025028X
商品描述内容简介For generations the traditional 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 here makes an overwhelming case for considering Britain the true home of modernity - a country driven by an exuberance, diversity and power of invention comparable only to twentieth-century America. Porter immerses the reader in a society which, recovering from the horrors of the Civil War and decisively reinvigorated by the revolution of 1688, had emerged as something new and extraordinary - a society unlike any other in the world.作者简介Roy Porter is Professor in the Social History of Medicine at the Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine, London.