Historical culture and political reform in the Italian Enlightenment /

For centuries the society and politics of Old Regime Europe relied on the strong connection between past, present, and future and on a belief in the unstoppable continuity of time. What happened during the eighteenth century when the Age of Revolutions claimed to cancel the previous social order and...

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Main Author: Cavarzere, Marco (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: [Liverpool, England] : Liverpool University Press on behalf of Voltaire Foundation, University of Oxford, [2020]
Series:Oxford University studies in the Enlightenment 2020:09.
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