The empire of reason : how Europe imagined and America realized the enlightenment / [by] Henry Steele Commager.
By: Commager, Henry Steele
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BookPublisher: London : Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1978Description: xiii, 342 p. ; 23 cm. + hbk.ISBN: 0297774212 :.Subject(s): Enlightenment -- United States | United States -- Intellectual life -- 18th century | United States -- History -- Revolution, 1775-1783 -- CausesDDC classification: 191
| Item type | Current library | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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| General Lending | MTU Crawford College of Art and Design Library Lending | 191 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | 00005640 |
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Henry Steele Commager was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania on October 25, 1902. He was educated at the University of Chicago. He taught history at New York University, Columbia University, and Amherst College. In addition to lecturing at many universities throughout the world, he was Harmsworth Professor at Oxford University and Pitt Professor at Cambridge University, where he was also an honorary fellow at Peterhouse College.His writings range widely over such topics as education, the Civil War, civil liberties, the Enlightenment, and immigration. Many of his books reflect his keen interest in constitutional history and civil liberties. He was also a documentarian, who has said to consider Documents of American History (1934), the 1988 edition of which he coedited with Milton Cantor, to be his most significant contribution. He died on March 2, 1998.
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