Barbarism and Religion: Volume 3, the First Decline and Fall (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780521672337)

This major intervention from one of the world's leading historians, challenges the notion of any one 'Enlightenment' and posits instead a plurality of enlightenments, of which the English was one. The first two volumes of Barbarism and Religion were warmly and widely reviewed, and won the Jacques Barzun Prize in Cultural History of the American Philosophical Society. In the third volume in the sequence, John Pocock presents a historical introduction to the first fourteen chapters of Gibbon's great work, recounting the end of the classical civilization Gibbon and his readers knew so much better than the worlds that followed.

Author: J. G. a. Pocock
ISBN-10: 0521672333
ISBN-13: 9780521672337
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Language: English
Published: 10/27/2005
Pages: 544
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.88lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.38w x 1.27d

Review Citation(s):
London Review of Books 11/06/2008 pg. 16