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  title info:
    non sort: The
    title: shape of the new
    sub title: four big ideas and how they made the modern world
  name:
    name part: Montgomery, Scott L.
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: Chirot, Daniel
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: nju
    date issued: 2015
    copyright date: 2015
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: x, 492 pages ; 25 cm.
  abstract: 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.
  table of contents: Ideas as historical forces -- Adam Smith : the science of man, morality, and money -- Karl Marx : the tragic consequences of a brilliant theory -- Charles Darwin : struggle and selection in the realm of ideas -- Making democracy : the Jefferson-Hamilton debates -- Counter-enlightenment : from antimodernism to fascism -- Christian fundamentalism : the politics of God in America -- Purifying Islam : the Muslim reaction against the Western enlightenment -- The power of ideas and the importance of the humanities.
  note: Scott L. Montgomery and Daniel Chirot.
  note: Includes bibliographical references (pages [439]-471) and index.
  subject:
    topic: Civilization, Modern
  subject:
    topic: Intellectual life
    topic: History
  subject:
    topic: Philosophy, Modern
    topic: History
  classification: CB358 .M66 2015
  classification: 909.7
  identifier: 9780691150642
  identifier: 0691150648
  identifier: 2014037906
  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 140929
    record change date: 20151105213203.0
    record identifier: in00003529880