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Drawing on sources as various as Inquisition records and spy reports, minutes of scientific societies and the writings of political revolutionaries, Margaret C. Jacob reveals a moment in European history when an ideal of cultural openness came to seem strong enough to counter centuries of prevailing chauvinism and xenophobia.

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"Although the book's focus lies across the Atlantic, centuries ago, Strangers Nowhere in the World has much to tell Americans and other contemporaries who would call themselves 'citizens of the world.'" * Wall Street Journal *

Table of Contents

Introduction
1. Censors, Inquisitors, and Cosmopolites
2. Alchemy, Science, and a Universalist Language
3. Markets Not So Free
4. Secrecy and the Paradox at the Heart of Modernity (the Masonic Moment)
5. Liberals, Radicals, and Bohemians
Epilogue
Notes
Index
Acknowledgments

Strangers Nowhere in the World

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      Publisher University of Pennsylvania Press
      Published 5 December 2016
      ISBN-13 9780812223873
      978-0812223873
      ISBN-10 081222387X
      Also in:
      European history: Renaissance

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Drawing on sources as various as Inquisition records and spy reports, minutes of scientific societies and the writings of political revolutionaries, Margaret C. Jacob reveals a moment in European history when an ideal of cultural openness came to seem strong enough to counter centuries of prevailing chauvinism and xenophobia.

      Trade Review
      "Although the book's focus lies across the Atlantic, centuries ago, Strangers Nowhere in the World has much to tell Americans and other contemporaries who would call themselves 'citizens of the world.'" * Wall Street Journal *

      Table of Contents

      Introduction
      1. Censors, Inquisitors, and Cosmopolites
      2. Alchemy, Science, and a Universalist Language
      3. Markets Not So Free
      4. Secrecy and the Paradox at the Heart of Modernity (the Masonic Moment)
      5. Liberals, Radicals, and Bohemians
      Epilogue
      Notes
      Index
      Acknowledgments

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