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Which enlightenment?(The Roads to Modernity: The British, French, and American Enlightenments)(Book Review)
Gertrude Himmelfarb The Roads to Modernity: The British, French, and American Enlightenments. Knopf, 284 pages, $25
Although it has already attracted a series of reverent reviews befitting a work by one of today's most eminent practitioners of history, this book is still more important than it looks. Gertrude Himmelfarb has called her latest volume Roads to Modernity: The British, French and American Enlightenments. It can be read as a provocative and persuasive revision not only of the intellectual era that made the modern world, but also of the concepts that still largely determine how we think about human affairs today.
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