The idea of progress in eighteenth-century Britain / David Spadafora.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Spadafora, David, 1951-

Series:

Yale historical publications

Yale historical publications.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Progress.

Great Britain--Social conditions--18th century.

Great Britain.

Social conditions.

Great Britain--Intellectual life--18th century.

Intellectual life.

Physical Description:

xv, 464 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

New Haven : Yale University Press, [1990]

Summary:

The idea of progress stood at the very center of the intellectual world of eighteenth-century Britain, closely linked to every major facet of the British Enlightenment as well as to the economic revolutions of the period. Drawing on hundreds of eighteenth-century books and pamphlets, David Spadafora here provides the most extensive discussion ever written of this prevailing sense of historical optimism.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0300046715

OCLC:

20635525