This revised new edition provides an overview of various topics, including the early modern period from the end of the Thirty Years War to the French Revolution; Enlightenment as era or open-ended political project; changing awareness at the dawn of modernity; the rise of the knowledge society; state systems, colonialism, discourses of power and rule; and places, protagonists and luminaries of the European Enlightenment.

Autorentext
Annette Meyer, Center for Advanced Studies an der LMU München