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The Enlightenment on Trial

Paperback • 2017 • 1. edition

The Enlightenment on Trial

By Florida International University) Premo Bianca (Associate Professor of History Associate Professor of History

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This is a history not of an Enlightenment but rather the Enlightenment-the rights-oriented, formalist, secularizing, freedom-inspired eighteenth-century movement that defined modern Western law. Its principal protagonists, rather than members of a cosmopolitan Republic of Letters, are non-literate, poor, and enslaved litigants who sued their superiors in the royal courts of Spain's American colonies. Despite growing evidence of the Hispanic world's contributions to Enlightenment science, the wri...Show more

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Oxford University Press Inc

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2017

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The Enlightenment on Trial

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