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Encyclopedia of the Enlightenment provides the first A-to-Z coverage of this important era. Conceived and written as a point of departure for anyone -- student or general reader -- who wishes to encounter this remarkable age, the encyclopedia provides broad coverage of general topics such as science, education, art and architecture, aesthetics, and music, which are complemented by shorter entries covering specific concepts and individuals.
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...a starting point for general readers and students seeking an encounter with ideas and questions of a historical period. This encyclopedia succeeds in serving casual browsing and light immersion in the topics treated and is recommended for collections primarity serving undergraduate and general readers. - Choice; ""This philosophical, political, and scientific movement finally has its own one-volume encyclopedia."" - Booklist; ""The articles are written with the general public in mind but provide enough general information for the student as well...Recommended."" - Reference Book Review
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Peter Hanns Reill is professor of history at UCLA and director of the UCLA Center for Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century Studies and the William Andrews Clark Memorial Library. He has received numerous academic awards and honors, including a Fulbright Senior Research Fellowship, a Guggenheim Memorial Fellowship, an appointment as fellow of the Institute of Advanced Studies (Berlin), and since 1977 has served as consulting editor to the Journal of the History of Ideas, among other publications. He has been published widely on the Enlightenment and is the co-editor of Visions of Empire: Voyages, Botany, and Representations of Nature and author of a forthcoming book on vitalism. Ellen Judy Wilson is a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of the University of Michigan, where she studied European and Russian History. After many years as a professional social worker, she resumed her study of early modern French history and the history of science. At UCLA, she earned a candidate in philosophy degree. Her dissertation research, partially supported by a French national government scholarship, was conducted in Paris. She is editor of publications at the William Andrews Clark Memorial Library at UCLA.
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- Publication date1996
- ISBN 10 081602989X
- ISBN 13 9780816029891
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