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The empire of reason: how Europe imagined and America realized the enlightenment

Commager, Henry Steele, 1902-1998.

Year: 1977.

Publisher: Anchor Press/Doubleday.

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Frontmatter

I The Enlightenment as an Age of Discovery

II The Enlightenment Spreads to America

III The Enlightenment Unveils a New World of Nature and of Man

IV America Under Attack

V The Enlightenment Vindicates America

VI The Enlightenment Celebrates the Spirit of the Laws

VII "The Uncorrupted New States and the Corrupted Old"

VIII Americans Bring Forth a New Nation

IX Americans Realize the Theories of the Wisest Writers

X The Blessings of Liberty

APPENDIX The Term "Philosophe"

INDEX

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Title:

The empire of reason : how Europe imagined and America realized the enlightenment Henry Steele Commager.

Author:

Commager, Henry Steele, 1902-1998

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The empire of reason : how Europe imagined and America realized the enlightenment Henry Steele Commager.
Commager, Henry Steele, 1902-1998
Garden City, N.Y.: Anchor Press/Doubleday, 1977.

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Subject Headings:

• Enlightenment
• United States -- Intellectual life -- 18th century
• United States -- History -- Revolution, 1775-1783 -- Causes

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