The Enlightenment (New Approaches to European History)
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Clear, concise, comprehensive - For anyone with an interest in Enlightenment, this provides a thorough and ambitious guide to one of the most important intellectual movements of the modern world. This work includes a useful introduction with the title What is Enlightenment, outlining the complexities that accompany such words and their definitions. To the casual reader or the student of Enlightenment, the clarity with which Outram presents the issues, and, as far as possible, the facts, you would be hard pushed to find any where else. The content is understandably lacking a little, given the scope and period that this works attempts to cover. A more extensive study perhaps is Roy Porter on the Enlightenment. However, in addition to the introduction and genrerally sound reasoning of the main part of this work, it also includes a helpful if breif section on Suggestions for Further Reading.