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Book SynopsisNorth/South focuses on the dramatic changes in the intellectual and political typography of a Europe divided between the countries of the North and of those of the South.
Trade Review"Ricardo Quinones offers a sweeping exploration into the North and South division in which he succinctly describes not only his own perspective, but also perspectives of early modern to modern writers, scholars, philosophers, and statesmen…This intellectual history offers an intriguing view of the origin of the Europe’s North-South division that continues to the present." -- Jennifer Tellman, Louisiana State University * The Sixteenth Century Journal, Vol xlix, no 2, Summer 2018 *
Table of ContentsPreface Chapter 1: Ground-works Chapter 2: Decline and Resistance Chapter 3: The Challenge of Ideas Chapter 4: Tolerance Twin to Incredulity Chapter 5: The Paradox of Time and the Moderns Chapter 6: Major Figures and Causality Chapter 7: Centering the Great Bases in Thought Chapter 8: English Thought: John Milton, John Locke and John Stuart Mill Chapter 9: The Edict of Nantes, Toleration and Voltaire Chapter 10: The Pending Revival of the South Chapter 11: Toward a Summation