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Fire and light: how the enlightenment transformed our world
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New York : Thomas Dunne Books, 2013.
Physical Desc:
ix, 388 pages ; 25 cm
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940.25 B967 2013
Franklin
940.25 B967 2013

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Pulitzer Prize-winning and bestselling historian James MacGregor Burns explores the most daring and transformational intellectual movement in history, the European and American Enlightenment In this engaging, provocative history, James MacGregor Burns brilliantly illuminates the two-hundred-year conflagration of the Enlightenment, when audacious questions and astonishing ideas tore across Europe and the New World, transforming thought, overturning governments, and inspiring visionary political experiments.

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English
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9781250024893 :, 1250024897, 9781250053923

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 271-367) and index.
Description
Pulitzer Prize-winning and bestselling historian James MacGregor Burns explores the most daring and transformational intellectual movement in history, the European and American Enlightenment In this engaging, provocative history, James MacGregor Burns brilliantly illuminates the two-hundred-year conflagration of the Enlightenment, when audacious questions and astonishing ideas tore across Europe and the New World, transforming thought, overturning governments, and inspiring visionary political experiments.

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Burns, J. M. (2013). Fire and light: how the enlightenment transformed our world. First edition. New York, Thomas Dunne Books.

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Burns, James MacGregor. 2013. Fire and Light: How the Enlightenment Transformed Our World. New York, Thomas Dunne Books.

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Burns, James MacGregor, Fire and Light: How the Enlightenment Transformed Our World. New York, Thomas Dunne Books, 2013.

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Burns, James MacGregor. Fire and Light: How the Enlightenment Transformed Our World. First edition. New York, Thomas Dunne Books, 2013.

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