The shape of the new : four big ideas and how they made the modern world /

Examines 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, i...

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Main Authors:	Montgomery, Scott L. (Author), Chirot, Daniel (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, [2015]
Subjects:	Civilization, Modern. Intellectual life > History. Philosophy, Modern > History.