The Encyclopedia of the Englightenment (Revised edition)

The “Enlightenment” is slippery construct in the history of ideas embracing a whole range of political, philosophical, artistic, scientific, religious, and cultural concepts that emerged from the late 1600s to the early 1900s. Defining the scope of this period in thought is a daunting task, but the editors of the revised 2004 Facts on File Encyclopedia of the Enlightenment have done an admirable job of creating concise, informative entries on key topics related to this era. Ellen Judy Wilson, the editor for publications at the William Andrews Clark Memorial Library at UCLA and scholar on French history and the history...