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Location	Call #	Volume	Status
Sherman Library	B1302.E65 P67 2000		AVAILABLE

Author	Porter, Roy, 1946-2002.
Title	The creation of the modern world : the untold story of the British Enlightenment / Roy Porter.
Edition	First American edition.
OCLC	45172823
ISBN	0393048721
	9780393048728
Publisher	New York : W.W. Norton, 2000.
Description	xxiv, 727 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm
LC Subject heading/s	Enlightenment -- Great Britain.
	Great Britain -- Intellectual life -- 18th century.
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references (pages 616-693) and index.
Contents	A blind spot -- The birth of an ideology -- Clearing away the rubbish -- Print culture -- Rationalizing religion -- The culture of science -- Anatomizing human nature -- The science of politics -- Secularizing -- Modernizing -- Happiness -- From good sense to sensibility -- Nature -- Did the mind have a sex? -- Education : a panacea? -- The vulgar -- The pursuit of wealth -- Reform -- Progress -- The revolutionary era : 'modern philosophy' -- Lasting light?

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