Revival: A History of Modern Culture: Volume II (1934): The Enlightenment 1687 - 1776

By Preserved Smith

Book Overview

The understanding of history can be advanced only by the combination or alternation, of analysis and synthesis. Detailed research and generalizing survey are not antiethical but complementary. For a long time, however, the specialist has reigned supreme in our schools. The need is now, surely, for a return to synoptic writing. The present work was undertaken to supply the need of a synthesis. It is a map of a large region, not a geological chart of a square mile or the plan of a single city. Its value, if any, lies in its view of the interrelations of large tracts of social and intellectual life, not in the intensive investigation of narrow fields.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 113855247X
• ISBN13: 9781138552470
• Release Date: January 2018
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 716 Pages
• Weight: 2.58 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.5" x 6.1" x 9.2"