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Gertrude Himmelfarb taught for twenty-three years at Brooklyn College and the Graduate School of the City University of New York, where she was named Distinguished Professor of History in 1978. I read Gertrude Himmelfarb's The Demoralization of Society: From Victorian Virtues to Modern Values a few years ago, and thought it was extremely thought provoking and well-written.
. A copy should be provided to every citizen of countries in which are currently undergoing radical and sometimes violent changes so they can understand that democracy is not a pretty process.

It gives a unique view into the American mindset and helped me understand the underpinnings of our country and even the latest election. . Whatever the shortcomings of the Bush and Blair-Brown administrations, it is reassuring to know that they have at their disposal so lucid a mind. After viewing product detail pages, look here to find an easy way to navigate back to pages you are interested in.After viewing product detail pages, look here to find an easy way to navigate back to pages you are interested in.

Gertrude Himmelfarb taught for twenty-three years at Brooklyn College and the Graduate School of the City University of New York, where she was named Distinguished Professor of History in 1978. Himmelfarb was best known as a historian of Victorian England, but she put that period in a larger context.

All rights reserved. Nominated for the National Book Award, Victorian Minds features such eighteenth-century "proto-Victorians" as Edmund Burke and Jeremy Bentham, concluding with the "last Victorian", John Buchan, 1st … United Kingdom She is attempting to "make the Enlightenment more British and make the British Enlightenment more inclusive." Himmelfarb is open about her polemicism as a historian, but her political point of view is more insidious; she makes her purpose explicit too late. Please try againSorry, we failed to record your vote. This is one of the best books on the enlightenment I ever read.

Her book, The Idea of Poverty, opens with an extended analysis of Adam Smith and Thomas Malthus, who helped shape debate and policies through much the nineteenth century and beyond. A clear exposition of the different forms that the Enlightenment thinking took in France, Britain, and the U.S. and how these differences have played out through subsequent history. The roads to modernity is an intelligent history of the Enlightenments in Britain, France and America that masks a contemporary political manifesto. The De-Moralization of Society: From Victorian Virtues to Modern Values Darwin and the Darwinian Revolution She assigns its origins to the eve of the 18th century with Lord Shaftesbury's conservative and moralistic Inquiry Concerning Virtue or Merit. The De-moralization Of Society: From Victorian Virtues to Modern Values

Her previous books include: Amazon calculates a product’s star ratings based on a machine learned model instead of a raw data average. The Roads to Modernity reclaims the Enlightenment–an extraordinary time bursting with new ideas about human nature, politics, society, and religion–from historians who have downgraded its importance and from scholars who have given preeminence to the Enlightenment in France over concurrent movements in England and America.

Now Professor Emeritus, she lives with her husband, Irving Kristol, in Washington, D.C. Please try again. This is so astutely written but yet for the common reader. But her purpose is not purely historical and it is no accident the book comes vigorously endorsed by Gordon Brown. by Himmelfarb, Gertrude (ISBN: 9781400077229) from Amazon's Book Store. Professor G brings the tumoil, the passion and the arguments of the Scottish and English scholars who made the Enlightenment a uniquely British exploration of the rights and responsibilities of Man. The model takes into account factors including the age of a rating, whether the ratings are from verified purchasers, and factors that establish reviewer trustworthiness.Sorry, we failed to record your vote.
This item: The Roads to Modernity: The British, French, and American Enlightenments by Gertrude Himmelfarb Paperback $14.47 Only 12 left in stock … America has taken up the tools we so carelessly discarded.In his approving foreword to the book, Gordon Brown is more hopeful about the British, insisting that we still have 'social virtues'. Gertrude simplifies the concept of how and why our worldview is self centered.

In order to navigate out of this carousel please use your heading shortcut key to navigate to the next or previous heading. This bar-code number lets you verify that you're getting exactly the right version or edition of a book. Now she suggests a leap further back, commending the Bush administration for its enlightened moral and religious paternalism. Please try again Prime members enjoy FREE Delivery and exclusive access to music, movies, TV shows, original audio series, and Kindle books.