The Case for the Enlightenment: Scotland and Naples 1680–1760

In: Canadian journal of political science: CJPS = Revue canadienne de science politique, Band 40, Heft 3, S. 781-783

Abstract

The Case for the Enlightenment: Scotland and Naples
1680–1760, John Robertson, Cambridge: Cambridge University
Press, 2005, pp.xii, 455.In this book, John Robertson, University Lecturer in Modern History
and Fellow at St. Hugh's College, Oxford, does several things all at
once. The result is one of the most profound and illuminating studies in
comparative historical analysis and political thought published in recent
decades.