The Idea of Progress in Eighteenth-Century Britain

by David Spadafora

Book Overview

The idea of progress stood at the very center of the intellectual world of eighteenth-century Britain, closely linked to every major facet of the British Enlightenment as well as to the economic revolutions of the period. Drawing on hundreds of eighteenth-century books and pamphlets, David Spadafora here provides the most extensive discussion ever written of this prevailing sense of historical optimism.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0300046715
• ISBN13: 9780300046717
• Release Date: September 1990
• Publisher: Yale University Press
• Length: 480 Pages
• Weight: 2.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.6" x 6.5" x 9.6"