The Shape of the New Revised Edition by Scott L. Montgomery (.ePUB)
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The Shape of the New: Four Big Ideas and How They Made the Modern World, Revised Edition by Scott L. Montgomery, Daniel Chirot
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Overview: How four revolutionary ideas from the Enlightenment shaped today’s world
This panoramic book tells the story of how revolutionary ideas from the Enlightenment about freedom, equality, evolution, and democracy have reverberated through modern history and shaped the world as we know it today.
A testament to the enduring power of ideas, The Shape of the New offers unforgettable portraits of Adam Smith, Thomas Jefferson, Alexander Hamilton, Charles Darwin, and Karl Marx―heirs of the Enlightenment who embodied its highest ideals about progress―and shows how their thoughts, over time and in the hands of their followers and opponents, transformed the very nature of our beliefs, institutions, economies, and politics. Yet these ideas also hold contradictions. They have been used in the service of brutal systems such as slavery and colonialism, been appropriated and twisted by monsters like Stalin and Hitler, and provoked reactions against the Enlightenment’s legacy by Islamic Salafists and the Christian Religious Right.
Genre: Non-Fiction > History
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