{"product_id":"the-roads-to-modernity-the-british-french-and-american-enlightenments-9781845951412","title":"The Roads to Modernity: The British, French and","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eGertrude Himmelfarb's elegant and wonderfully readable work, \u003ci\u003eThe Roads to Modernity\u003c\/i\u003e, reclaims the Enlightenment from historians who have downgraded its importance and from scholars who have given preeminence to the Enlightenment in France over concurrent movements in England and in America.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHimmerlfarb demonstrates the primacy and wisdom of the British, exemplified in such thinkers as Adam Smith, David Hume, and Edmund Burke, as well as the unique and enduring contributions of the American Founders. It is their Enlightenments, she argues, that created a social ethic - humane, compassionate and realistic - that still resonates strongly today.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSupported with great passion and wide-ranging scholarship... Himmelfarb has written a keenly argued and thought-provoking intellectual history of the eighteenth century * San Francisco Chronicle *\u003cbr\u003eExceptionally well written and clever * Washington Post *\u003cbr\u003eShe writes with a real grace and her effortless prose brings the history of ideas to life * Sunday Times *\u003cbr\u003eThis stimulating essay makes a convincing case for the unique character and significance of the British Enlightenment * Guardian *\u003cbr\u003eAn intelligent history... the prose is elegant and the arguments engaging and she weaves her way gracefully and effortlessly across centuries, disciplines and nations * Observer *","brand":"Vintage Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51020715622743,"sku":"9781845951412","price":14.14,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-roads-to-modernity-the-british-french-and-american-enlightenments-9781845951412","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}