The Scottish Enlightenment: Race, Gender, and the Limits of Progress by Silvia Sebastiani

The Scottish Enlightenment: Race, Gender, and the Limits of Progress

Palgrave Studies in Cultural and Intellectual History

Silvia Sebastiani

269 pages • missing pub info (editions)

nonfiction history philosophy informative reflective medium-paced
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The Scottish Enlightenment shaped a new conception of history as a gradual and universal progress from savagery to civil society. Whereas women emancipated themselves from the yoke of male-masters, men in turn acquired polite manners and became ci...

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