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A history of the Enlightenment retraces the innovations in representative government, industrialization, religious tolerance, and individualism that made the eighteenth century so important in the history of England, and the world.
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In response to the numerous histories crediting France and Germany, Porter (social history of medicine, Wellcome Institute for the History of Science) makes a case for Britain as the true home of modernity and font of the Enlightenment. By the 18th century, he points out, the country had representative government, religious tolerance, precocious industrialization, and pioneering individualism. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
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