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[https://press.princeton.edu/books/hardcover/9780691161457/the-enlightenment?srsltid=AfmBOorXLWNXN_rdnbrNyoawGqsz0x5lhKLXEEcz-EWPkQ2ADzLi4Wfy by Vincenzo Ferrone] | [https://press.princeton.edu/books/hardcover/9780691161457/the-enlightenment?srsltid=AfmBOorXLWNXN_rdnbrNyoawGqsz0x5lhKLXEEcz-EWPkQ2ADzLi4Wfy by Vincenzo Ferrone] | ||
In this concise and powerful book, one of the world’s leading historians of the Enlightenment provides a bracing and clarifying new interpretation of this watershed period. Arguing that philosophical and historical interpretations of the era have long been hopelessly confused, Vincenzo Ferrone makes the case that it is only by separating these views and taking an approach grounded in social and cultural history that we can begin to grasp what the Enlightenment was—and why it is still relevant today. | In this concise and powerful book, one of the world’s leading historians of the Enlightenment provides a bracing and clarifying new interpretation of this watershed period. Arguing that philosophical and historical interpretations of the era have long been hopelessly confused, Vincenzo Ferrone makes the case that it is only by separating these views and taking an approach grounded in social and cultural history that we can begin to grasp what the Enlightenment was—and why it is still relevant today. | ||
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[https://historyguild.org/the-age-of-enlightenment/?srsltid=AfmBOorgCdeODOzoqfWqSn7Byp7CHNP_0Uwl5SSrrh2PoSzGGwa2_9bC by History Guild] | |||
Britain had been wary of foreign agents operating within its shores in the run up to the First World War, and the Secret Service Bureau – now commonly known as MI5 – had been established in 1909. It had found great success rounding up German spies when the conflict broke out. | |||
