Graduate Faculty Philosophy Journal

Graduate Faculty Philosophy Journal

REVIEW—Roy Porter’s The Creation of the Modern World: The Untold Story of the British Enlightenment

Charles T. Wolfe reviews Roy Porter’s The Creation of the Modern World: The Untold Story of the British Enlightenment, published by W.W. Norton (2000).

Article available through Philosophy Documentation Center, here.

Charles T. Wolfe, review of The Creation of the Modern World: The Untold Story of the British Enlightenment, by Roy Porter, Graduate Faculty Philosophy Journal 24:1 (2003), pp. 227–31.

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