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Freemasonry and Politics in Eighteenth-Century Europe
Long recognized as more than the writings of a dozen or so philosophes, the Enlightenment created a new secular culture populated by the literate and ...
Provides a panoramic account of the radical ways that life began to change for ordinary people in the age of Locke, Voltaire, and Rousseau. In this bo...
The Rise of Cosmopolitanism in Early Modern Europe
The mingling of aristocrats and commoners in a southern French city, the jostling of foreigners in stock markets across northern and western Europe, t...
Human Capital and the European Economy, 1750–1850
Ever since the Industrial Revolution debate has raged about the sources of the new, sustained western prosperity. Margaret Jacob here argues persuasiv...
Facts & Fictions
Membership implied an interest in government, as the lodges often functioned as schools where brothers and sisters learned to vote, to orate, to pract...
"A fascinating historiographical essay. . . . An unusually lucid and inclusive explication of what it ultimately at stake in the culture wars over the...
Seeking to understand the cultural origins of the Industrial Revolution of the eighteenth century, this text first looks at the scientific culture of ...
Newton’s Science in the Service of Industry and Empire, 1687–1851
Margaret Jacob and Larry Stewart examine the profound transformation that began in 1687. From the year when Newton published his Principia to the Crys...
Margaret C. Jacob's social history of Newtonian philosophy has generated much heated discussion over the role of social andideological climates in the...
Picart and Bernard’s Religious Ceremonies of the World
Two French Protestant refugees in eighteenth-century Amsterdam gave the world an extraordinary work that intrigued and outraged readers across Europe....
A Brief History with Documents
This revised edition of The Scientific Revolution highlights the difficulty of engaging, discarding, or assimilating religious paradigms in the course...
Newton's Science in the Service of Industry and Empire, 1687–1851
“A highly ambitious and provocative survey of the cultural history of science and industry” from the seventeenth to the nineteenth centuries (Jour...
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WESTERN CIVILIZATION: IDEAS, POLITICS, AND SOCIETY, Eleventh Edition, maintains a firm grounding in political history, while covering intellectual his...
Completely matching the syllabus, this book equips students with the knowledge, skills and attitudes to function effectively in a modern office enviro...
Completely matching the CXC syllabus, Electronic Document Preparation and Management for CSEC provides comprehensive coverage and is a key text for al...
This workbook accompanies the successful Electronic Document Preparation and Management for CSEC® student book, but can be used alongside any EDPM te...
These Study Guides have been developed exclusively with the Caribbean Examinations Council (CXC(r)) to be used as an additional resource by candidates...
A History of Middlesex and Smith Brook