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The Enlightenment: a brief history with documents. Responsibility Margaret C. Jacob. Imprint Slavery The Legacy of Enlightenment PART TWO: THE DOCUMENTS John Locke, Some Thoughts Concerning Education, The Treatise on the Three Impostors Voltaire, Letters Concerning the English Nations, Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, Letters.  · The Enlightenment: A Brief History with Documents. In an unusually diverse collection, Margaret Jacob presents the eighteenth-century movement known as the Enlightenment that forever changed the political, religious, and educational landscape of the day. Selections by some of the period’s most important thinkers include pieces by Locke /5(5). Margaret C. Jacob is professor of history at the University of California, Los Angeles. She has published widely on science, religion, freemasonry, and the origins of the Industrial Revolution. A past Guggenheim and Fulbright fellow, Jacob has received grants from the National Science Foundation and the National Endowment for the www.doorway.ru by:

The Enlightenment: a brief history with documents Jacob, Margaret C., The movement called the Enlightenment swept through 18th-century Europe, forever changing the political, religious, and educational landscape. The Enlightenment: A Brief History with Documents. In an unusually diverse collection, Margaret Jacob presents the eighteenth-century movement known as the Enlightenment that forever changed the political, religious, and educational landscape of the day. Selections by some of the period's most important thinkers include pieces by Locke. THE BEDFORD SERIES IN HISTORY AND CULTURE The Enlightenment A Brief History with Documents Margaret C. Jacob University of California at LosAngeles BEDFORD/ST. MARTIN'S Boston • New York. Contents i j Foreword v i Preface vii I LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS xiii i; PART ONE.

Margaret C. Jacob. · Rating details · ratings · 5 reviews. In an unusually diverse collection, Margaret Jacob presents the eighteenth-century movement known as the Enlightenment that forever changed the political, religious, and educational landscape of the day. Selections by some of the period’s most important thinkers include pieces by Locke, Rousseau, Mary Wortley Montagu, Denis Diderot, and Moses Mendelssohn. Margaret C. Jacob is a go-to historian for me, and this very short volume did not disappoint. I highly recommend it, even if just for its brief history of the Enlightenment, which occupies about a third of the volume's pages. Jacob includes a little bit of history of Masonic involvement in the Enlightenment, too, which was nice to see. The Enlightenment: A Brief History with Documents Margaret C. Jacob Boston: Bedford/St. Martin’s, , xiii + pp. CHRISTINA HENDRICKS In The Enlightenment, Margaret C. Jacob has put together a concise yet varied collection of documents designed to provide the reader with an introduction to and overview of the Enlightenment period in Europe. Jacob is professor of history at the University of California at Los Angeles, and though the collection would clearly lend itself.