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Enlightenment
Roy Porter
其他書名
Britain and the Creation of the Modern World
出版Penguin UK, 2001-11-01
主題History / Social HistoryHistory / Europe / Great Britain / GeneralHistory / Modern / General
ISBN01419277209780141927725
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=dn1YGGxCL-0C&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋For generations the traditional focus for those wishing to understand the roots of the modern world has been France on the eve of the Revolution. Porter certainly acknowledges France's importance, but here makes an overwhelming case for consideringBritain the true home of modernity - a country driven by an exuberance, diversity and power of invention comparable only to twentieth-century America. Porter immerses the reader in a society which, recovering from the horrors of the Civil War and decisively reinvigorated by the revolution of 1688, had emerged as something new and extraordinary - a society unlike any other in the world.