Customer Review: I took a college course on the Enlightenment. The Outram book gave a slightly different perspective from the course texts. It was worth it.
Customer Review: This book is another of Thames & Hudson's high-quality "coffee-table" type of publications that is beautifully illustrated. I don't believe there is another highly illustrated book like this that focuses entirely on the Enlightenment, so it fills a noteworthy gap in the literature. More... more info
Customer Review: Focuses on 19th and 20th century American and European women scientists. It was great to read a challenge to the myth that science has been done only by men, even in the first part of the 19th century. Great introduction by the editors of essays written by 12 women historians. References, notes and... more info
Customer Review: Innovative in its approach, Dorinda Outram's, The Body and the French Revolution challenges many of the more traditional histories. She takes the body as the central focus of her book and the way that people perceived and constructed the world of experience in which they lived at a time of profound... more info
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