(Ilmumisaeg: 31-Jul-2025, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: Duke University Press, ISBN-13: 9781478032656)
Topics cover the ways in which French and Francophone histories shape various themes, including transnational scientific exchange; technology and debates about modernity; gender in conceptions of mind, body, and disease; and the intersections of sci...Loe edasi...
Exploring the intersection of Enlightenment ideas and colonial realities amongst White, male colonists in the eighteenth-century French and British Caribbean, A Caribbean Enlightenment recovers a neglected aspect of the regions history. Physicians t...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 05-Oct-2023, Hardback, Kirjastus: Cambridge University Press, ISBN-13: 9781009360807)
Explores the intersection of Enlightenment ideas and colonial realities amongst White, male colonists in the eighteenth-century French and British Caribbean. For them, becoming enlightened meant diversion, status seeking, satisfying curiosity about...Loe edasi...
Sari: Changing Perspectives on Early Modern Europe
(Ilmumisaeg: 03-Aug-2007, Hardback, Kirjastus: University of Rochester Press, ISBN-13: 9781580462433)
A multi-faceted study of intellectual transformation in early modern Europe as seen through the eyes of a leading French scholar and cleric, Pierre-Daniel Huet (1630-1721)....Loe edasi...
Describing an era of exploration during the Renaissance that went far beyond geographic bounds, this book shows how the evidence of the New World shook the foundations of the old, upsetting the authority of the ancient texts that had guided Europeans...Loe edasi...
