Enlightenment(English, Paperback, Porter Roy)

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Enlightenment(English, Paperback, Porter Roy) is written by Porter Roy and published by Penguin Books Ltd. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 014025028X (ISBN 10) and 9780140250282 (ISBN 13).

For generations the traditional focus for those wishing to understand the roots of the modern world has been France on the eve of the Revolution. Porter certainly acknowledges France's importance, but here makes an overwhelming case for considering Britain the true home of modernity - a country driven by an exuberance, diversity and power of invention comparable only to twentieth-century America. Porter immerses the reader in a society which, recovering from the horrors of the Civil War and decisively reinvigorated by the revolution of 1688, had emerged as something new and extraordinary - a society unlike any other in the world.