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History and nature in the Enlightenment praise of the mastery of nature in the eighteenth-century historical literature by Nathaniel Wolloch is a history book available to read on EtoBox.
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The mastery of nature was viewed by eighteenth-century historians as an important measure of the progress of civilization. This book discusses this topic in connection with the mainstream religious, political, and philosophical elements of Enlightenment culture. It considers works by figures that include Edward Gibbon, Voltaire, Herder, Vico, Raynal, Hume, Adam Smith and William Robertson. It also discusses many classical, medieval, and early modern sources which influenced Enlightenment histori
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- Author
- Nathaniel Wolloch
- Publisher
- Ashgate Publishing Limited
- Published
- 2011
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781317121718
- Category
- history
- Subjects
- Nature, History, Literary Fiction
- Updated
- 2026-03-25
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