| Description |
1 online resource (xiii, 302 pages, 12 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations |
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text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Rousseau's challenge to modernity -- Tocqueville and liberty -- J.S. Mill and the nineteenth century -- The turn to subjectivity -- Medievalism and the invention of the Renaissance -- Nature historicised -- Darwin and creation -- Marx and the transcendent working class -- The cult of the artist -- Nationalism -- Race and anti-Semitism -- Wagner -- The ideology of separate gender spheres -- Old faiths and new -- Nietzsche. |
| Summary |
Turner's lectures "distilled modern European history from the Enlightenment to the dawn of twentieth century and conveyed the turbulence of a rapidly changing era in European history through its ideas and leading figures."--Jacket. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Civilization, Western -- History -- 18th century.
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Civilization, Western. |
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History. |
| Chronological Term |
18th century |
| Subject |
Civilization, Western -- History -- 19th century.
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| Chronological Term |
19th century |
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Europe -- Intellectual life -- 18th century.
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Europe. |
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Intellectual life. |
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Europe -- Intellectual life -- 19th century.
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Philosophy, Modern -- 18th century.
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Philosophy, Modern. |
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Philosophy, Modern -- 19th century.
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| Chronological Term |
1700-1899 |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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History.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Turner, Frank M. (Frank Miller), 1944-2010. European intellectual history from Rousseau to Nietzsche. New Haven, CT : Yale University Press, [2014] 9780300207293 (DLC) 2014021369 (OCoLC)891941697 |
| ISBN |
0300212917 electronic book |
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9780300212914 electronic book |
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9780300207293 print |
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