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[https://academic.oup.com/ahr/article-abstract/117/4/999/33183 by Sebastian Conrad 21/9/12 OXFORD ACADEMIC] | [https://academic.oup.com/ahr/article-abstract/117/4/999/33183 by Sebastian Conrad 21/9/12 OXFORD ACADEMIC] | ||
The Enlightenment has long held a pivotal place in narratives of world history. It has served as a sign of the modern, and continues to play that role yet today. The standard interpretations, however, have tended to assume, and to perpetuate, a Eurocentric mythology. | The Enlightenment has long held a pivotal place in narratives of world history. It has served as a sign of the modern, and continues to play that role yet today. The standard interpretations, however, have tended to assume, and to perpetuate, a Eurocentric mythology. | ||
=====Age of Enlightenment===== | |||
[https://www.battlefields.org/learn/articles/age-enlightenment by Phillip Greenwalt 21/5/25 AMERICAN BATTLEFIELD TRUST] | |||
Ironically, out of a period of chaos came an age of reason. Better known in history as the Age of Enlightenment or the Age of Reason, this was a period stretching from the late 17th century through the end of the Napoleonic Wars in 1815. From the restoration of the monarchy following the English Civil War, “a rigorous scientific, political, and philosophical discourse” emerged in Europe and journeyed across the Atlantic Ocean to enlighten the minds of British colonists. | |||
