The Scottish Enlightenment: Race, Gender, and the Limits of Progress by Sebastiani, Silvia

The Scottish Enlightenment: Race, Gender, and the Limits of Progress (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780230114913)

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The Scottish Enlightenment: Race, Gender, and the Limits of Progress by Sebastiani, Silvia

The Scottish Enlightenment: Race, Gender, and the Limits of Progress

$129.99
The Scottish Enlightenment: Race, Gender, and the Limits of Progress by Sebastiani, Silvia

The Scottish Enlightenment: Race, Gender, and the Limits of Progress

$129.99
Format: Hardcover
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The Scottish Enlightenment shaped a new conception of history as a gradual and universal progress from savagery to civil society. Whereas women emancipated themselves from the yoke of male-masters, men in turn acquired polite manners and became civilized.

Author: Silvia Sebastiani
ISBN-10: 0230114911
ISBN-13: 9780230114913
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Language: English
Published: 02/22/2013
Pages: 269
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.12lbs
Size: 9.54h x 6.18w x 0.75d

Review Citation(s):
Choice 11/01/2013
By Silvia Sebastiani
By Silvia Sebastiani
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Silvia Sebastiani is Ma?re de Conf駻ences (Associate Professor) at the ﾉcole des Hautes ﾉtudes en Sciences Socials in Paris, France, where she teaches seminars on the experiences and ideologies of race in the early modern period and on Enlightenment historiography, and coordinate the group of research mondes britannique.

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