The Atlantic EnlightenmentSusan Manning, Francis D. Cogliano As the essays in this book cumulatively demonstrate, the Atlantic Enlightenment is not a compound product of modern scholarship, but a framework intrinsic to the articulation of the modern world as it was perceived and described by the major figures of the 18th-century world. |
Contents
Enlightenment Historiography and Cultural Civil Wars | 19 |
Where was the Atlantic Enlightenment? Questions of Geography 377 | 37 |
John Witherspoon and the Transatlantic Enlightenment | 61 |
David Hume and the Seagods of the Atlantic | 81 |
The Atlantic Enlightenment and German Responses to the | 97 |
Don Quixote and the Fictions of | 113 |
Transatlantic Sentiments and the | 131 |
Adam Smith and the Crisis of the American Union | 149 |
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