Sociability and Cosmopolitanism -

Sociability and Cosmopolitanism

Social Bonds on the Fringes of the Enlightenment
Buch | Hardcover
240 Seiten
2012
Pickering & Chatto (Publishers) Ltd (Verlag)
978-1-84893-262-3 (ISBN)
199,95 inkl. MwSt
This collection of essays expands the focus of Enlightenment studies to include countries outside the core nations of France, Germany and Britain. Notions of sociability and cosmopolitanism are explored as ways in which people sought to improve society.

Scott Breuninger, David Burrow

Chapter 1 Introduction, Scott Breuninger; Chapter 2 Science, Religion and Sociability in Early Eighteenth-Century Irish Thought, Scott Breuninger; Chapter 3 Visualizing Spain’s Enlightenment: The Marginal Universality of Deafness, Benjamin Fraser; Chapter 4 Sociability and Cosmopolitanism in Eighteenth-Century Venice: European Travellers and Venetian Women’s Casinos, Marianna D’Ezio; Chapter 5 At Home in a World of Fictions: Commercial Sociability in Montesquieu’s Persian Letters, Mark Nixon; Chapter 6 Prince M. M. Shcherbatov’s Critique of the ‘Open Table’ and the Dynamics of Russian Sociability, David Burrow; Chapter 7 Benjamin Vaughan on Commerce and International Harmony in the Eighteenth Century, Andrew Hamilton; Chapter 8 ‘Self-Created Societies’: Sociability and Statehood in the Pittsburgh Enlightenment, Leonard von Morzé; Chapter 9 The Margins of Enlightenment: Benjamin Rush, The Rural World and Sociability in Post-Revolutionary Pennsylvania, Michael McCoy;

Reihe/Serie The Enlightenment World
Verlagsort London
Sprache englisch
Maße 156 x 234 mm
Gewicht 498 g
Themenwelt Geschichte Allgemeine Geschichte Neuzeit (bis 1918)
Geisteswissenschaften Geschichte Regional- / Ländergeschichte
Sozialwissenschaften
ISBN-10 1-84893-262-6 / 1848932626
ISBN-13 978-1-84893-262-3 / 9781848932623
Zustand Neuware
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