The French Press In The Age Of Enlightenment

Jack Censer's achievement in this volume is to marshal a vast literature in order to provide a coherent and original interpretation of the role of the French press in the dissemimation of social and political ideas in the pre-Revolution years.

First Published in 2004. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Containing essays by leading scholars representing a wide range of disciplines, this Companion offers new perspectives on the French Enlightenment. Clearly organized and easy to use, the volume provides a comprehensive overview of a period that marks the beginning of modern intellectual culture and political life.

"The collection is more than the sum of its parts and it will be difficult even for men to look at the French Enlightenment and the French Revolution in quite the same way again." —London Review of Books " . . . a significant contribution to the general history of women. . . . an indispensable complement to our understanding of the eighteenth century." —Romance Quarterly

Explores the Enlightenment in the brutal slave societies of the colonial French and British Caribbean before the Haitian Revolution.

This book offers a unique insight to the teaching and practice of architects and engineers.

This book examines the reception of the works of the Baron d'Holbach throughout Francophone Europe. It insists that d'Holbach's historical importance has been understated, argues the case for the existence of a significant 'Christian Enlightenment', and much more.