Encyclopedia of the Enlightenment (Facts on File Library of World History) - Hardcover

Peter H. Reill; Ellen Judy Wilson

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0816053359 ISBN 13: 9780816053353

Publisher: Facts on File, 2004

Synopsis

A comprehensive yet accessible resource on this time period, Encyclopedia of the Enlightenment, Revised Edition is a valuable and unique tool for students and the general public. Still the only one-volume encyclopedia on this intensively studied subject, the revised edition has been substantially expanded and thoroughly updated to include recent scholarship. In particular, the volume now covers a greater geographical area and a more diverse group of historical figures. Building on the foundation of the successful previous edition, Encyclopedia of the Enlightenment, Revised Edition addresses a core subject of the school curriculum. With broad cultural and geographical coverage, this valuable and authoritative reference features articles on general topics such as science, education, art and architecture, aesthetics, and music; personalities; countries; notable works; and concepts. For the revised edition, many of the core entries have been expanded, and all articles have been revised and updated based on current research. New material includes approximately 125 new entries, new illustrations, further reading lists with all major articles, a new preface, and a revised chronology, bibliography, and index.

About this title

Review:

...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

About the Author:

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.

About this edition

• Publisher: Facts on File
• Publication date: 2004
• ISBN 10: 0816053359
• ISBN 13: 9780816053353
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 670