Book contents
- Frontmatter
- PREFACE
- Contents
- A HISTORY OF MODERN CULTURE
- CHAPTER I THE BACKGROUND AND THE CHARACTER OF THE ENLIGHTENMENT
- CHAPTER II NEWTONIAN SCIENCE
- CHAPTER III LINNÆAN SCIENCE
- CHAPTER IV THE PLACE OF SCIENCE IN EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY THOUGHT
- CHAPTER V PHILOSOPHY
- CHAPTER VI POLITICAL AND ECONOMIC THEORY
- CHAPTER VII HISTORIOGRAPHY
- CHAPTER VIII SCHOLARSHIP
- CHAPTER IX THE MODERN PROSE STYLE
- CHAPTER X POETRY AND DRAMA
- CHAPTER XI THE PROPAGANDA OF THE ENLIGHTENMENT
- CHAPTER XII EDUCATION
- CHAPTER XIII RELIGIOUS REACTION AND REVIVAL
- CHAPTER XIV DEISM AND SKEPTICISM
- CHAPTER XV THE DECLINE OF SUPERSTITION AND PERSECUTION
- CHAPTER XVI LAWS, MORALS, AND MANNERS
- CHAPTER XVII ART AND MUSIC
- BIBLIOGRAPHY
- INDEX
CHAPTER VII - HISTORIOGRAPHY
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 18 December 2014
- Frontmatter
- PREFACE
- Contents
- A HISTORY OF MODERN CULTURE
- CHAPTER I THE BACKGROUND AND THE CHARACTER OF THE ENLIGHTENMENT
- CHAPTER II NEWTONIAN SCIENCE
- CHAPTER III LINNÆAN SCIENCE
- CHAPTER IV THE PLACE OF SCIENCE IN EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY THOUGHT
- CHAPTER V PHILOSOPHY
- CHAPTER VI POLITICAL AND ECONOMIC THEORY
- CHAPTER VII HISTORIOGRAPHY
- CHAPTER VIII SCHOLARSHIP
- CHAPTER IX THE MODERN PROSE STYLE
- CHAPTER X POETRY AND DRAMA
- CHAPTER XI THE PROPAGANDA OF THE ENLIGHTENMENT
- CHAPTER XII EDUCATION
- CHAPTER XIII RELIGIOUS REACTION AND REVIVAL
- CHAPTER XIV DEISM AND SKEPTICISM
- CHAPTER XV THE DECLINE OF SUPERSTITION AND PERSECUTION
- CHAPTER XVI LAWS, MORALS, AND MANNERS
- CHAPTER XVII ART AND MUSIC
- BIBLIOGRAPHY
- INDEX
- Type
- Chapter
- Information
- A History of Modern Culture , pp. 226 - 259Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2014First published in: 1930