The shape of the new : four big ideas and how they made the modern world /
Examines Adam Smith, Thomas Jefferson, Alexander Hamilton, Charles Darwin and Karl Marx, heirs of the Enlightenment who embodied its highest ideals about progress, and shows how their thoughts, over time and in the hands of their followers and opponents, transformed the very nature of our beliefs, i...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Princeton, New Jersey :
Princeton University Press,
[2015]
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| Summary: | Examines Adam Smith, Thomas Jefferson, Alexander Hamilton, Charles Darwin and Karl Marx, heirs of the Enlightenment who embodied its highest ideals about progress, and shows how their thoughts, over time and in the hands of their followers and opponents, transformed the very nature of our beliefs, institutions, economies and politics. |
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| Physical Description: | x, 492 pages ; 25 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages [439]-471) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780691150642 0691150648 |