Enlightenment Town
Enlightenment Town

Author: Jeffery Paine

Publisher: New World Library

Published: 2018-04-25

Total Pages: 250

ISBN-13: 1608685756

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Why has a tiny old mining town straight out of Gunsmoke or Deadwood — Crestone, Colorado — become home to twenty-five spiritual centers representing nearly all the brand-name faiths of the world? With the keen eye of a storyteller, the insights of a scholar, and the heart of a seeker, Jeffery Paine narrates a truly unique adventure. He explores Crestone’s wintry, oxygen-thin mountain geography and introduces a cast of spiritual mavericks and unlikely visionaries. Paine finds in Crestone a remarkable dedication to coexistence. Paradoxically, the town’s amazing spiritual diversity highlights fundamental commonalities in a way that will strike and even inspire believers, agnostics, and searchers of every stripe.

The Geographies of Enlightenment Edinburgh
The Geographies of Enlightenment Edinburgh

Author: Phil Dodds

Publisher: Boydell & Brewer

Published: 2022

Total Pages: 381

ISBN-13: 1783277033

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Edinburgh was an Enlightenment city of regional, national and global influence. But how did the people of Enlightenment Edinburgh understand and order their world? How did they encounter, compare and produce different kinds of spaces, from the urban to the world scale? And how did this city set the universal standards by which other places should be judged and transformed? The Geographies of Enlightenment Edinburgh answers these questions by exploring the thousands of urban plans, county surveys, travel accounts and encyclopaedias that passed through a busy Edinburgh bookshop over four decades. It reveals how these geographical publications were produced and shared, and sheds light on the people who bought and used them - including moral philosophers, silk merchants, school teachers, ship's surgeons and slave owners. This is the story of how specific methods of mapping space came ultimately to predict and organize it, creating a new world in Edinburgh's image. By connecting global processes of knowledge production to intimate accounts of its reception in the city, this book deepens our understanding of the Scottish Enlightenment and the world it made.

The Eighteenth-Century Town
The Eighteenth-Century Town

Author: Peter Borsay

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2014-01-14

Total Pages: 405

ISBN-13: 1317899741

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The eighteenth century represents a critical period in the transition of the English urban history, as the town of the early modern era involved into that of the industrial revolution; and since Britain was the 'first industrial nation', this transformation is of more-than-national significance for all those interested in the histroy of towns. This book gathers together in one volume some of the most interesting and important articles that have appeared in research journals to provide a rich variety of perspectives on urban evelopment in the period.

Science in the Scottish Enlightenment
Science in the Scottish Enlightenment

Author: The Open University

Publisher: The Open University

Published:

Total Pages: 65

ISBN-13: 1473006538

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This 5-hour free course explored scientific developments and leading figures in Scotland in the 18th century with regard to the Enlightenment period.

Religious Enlightenment in the eighteenth-century Nordic countries
Religious Enlightenment in the eighteenth-century Nordic countries

Author: Johannes Ljungberg

Publisher: Manchester University Press

Published: 2023-10-17

Total Pages: 372

ISBN-13: 9198740423

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This book explores the concept of religious Enlightenment in the Nordic countries during the long eighteenth century. It argues that Lutheran confessional culture became intertwined with Enlightenment ideas and practices in this European region. In the book’s three parts, specialist historians explore themes central to students of the early modern era – historical writing, material culture, ecclesiastical and legal reform, censorship, cameralism and innovative medical practices. It offers a timely reconsideration of a complex period in European history from a northern perspective.

Reading the Scottish Enlightenment
Reading the Scottish Enlightenment

Author: Mark Towsey

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2010-09-24

Total Pages: 380

ISBN-13: 9004193510

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It has become commonplace in recent decades for scholars to identify in the books of the Scottish Enlightenment the intellectual origins of the modern world, but little attention has yet been paid to its impact on contemporary readers. Drawing on a range of innovatory methodologies associated with the burgeoning interdisciplinary field of the history of reading, this book explores the reception of books by David Hume, Adam Smith, William Robertson and Thomas Reid (amongst many others), assessing their impact on the lives, beliefs and habits of mind of readers across the social scale. In the process, the book offers a fascinating new perspective on the fundamental importance of personal reading experiences to the social history of the Enlightenment.

A History of Western Architecture
A History of Western Architecture

Author: David Watkin

Publisher: Laurence King Publishing

Published: 2005

Total Pages: 722

ISBN-13: 9781856694599

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The history of Western architecture from the earliest times in Mesopotamia and Egypt to the dramatic impact of CAD on architectural practice at the beginning of the 21st century.

Robert and James Adam, Architects of the Age of Enlightenment
Robert and James Adam, Architects of the Age of Enlightenment

Author: Ariyuki Kondo

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2015-10-06

Total Pages: 222

ISBN-13: 1317322517

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During the second half of the eighteenth century British architecture moved away from the dominant school of classicism in favour of a more creative freedom of expression. At the forefront of this change were architect brothers Robert and James Adam. Kondo’s work places them within the context of eighteenth-century intellectual thought.

New Directions in Urban History
New Directions in Urban History

Author: Peter Borsay, Ruth-Elisabeth Mohrmann, Gunther Hirschfelder

Publisher: Waxmann Verlag

Published:

Total Pages: 228

ISBN-13: 9783830956433

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This volume introduces, through a series of freshly researched studies, new perspectives on the history of European urban culture from the eighteenth to the twentieth century. The approach is an international one, with essays on Austria-Hungary, France, Germany, Great Britain and Italy, and the authors drawn not only from Europe, but also the USA and Japan. The essays examine a range of specialist aspects of culture, such as gardening, spa towns, painting, and music. At the same time the contributors also explore jointly several broader interconnected themes - health, nature, the arts and cultural institutions, leisure, and tourism - of central importance to the cultural identity and development of the modern European town.

Breaking Away from the Textbook
Breaking Away from the Textbook

Author: Ron H. Pahl

Publisher: R&L Education

Published: 2011-03-16

Total Pages: 287

ISBN-13: 1610480945

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Teaching history should not simply be an endless recitation of irrelevant facts, entombed between the covers of a textbook. Instead, Breaking Away from the Textbook offers a fascinating journey through world history. Not a comprehensive, theory-heavy guide, this book instead focuses on exciting classroom activities, methods for students to grapple with human issues, and innovative ways to show students the relevance of the past to the world today. Simply put, this book makes world history fun. Soon your students will be busy debating, thinking, applying, and learning about information that will stay with them for a lifetime. The key to this wonderful work is that it incorporates various disciplines including art, music, and writing to create a vibrant classroom. Volume I covers prehistory to the Renaissance and Volume II covers the Enlightenment to the 20th century. Includes pictures and drawings, appendices, indexes, maps, and a bibliography. Volume III: More Creative Ways to Teach World History covers ancient times through the 20th century and beyond. Appropriate for all grade levels.