- Published: 1 May 2008
- ISBN: 9781845951412
- Imprint: Vintage
- Format: Paperback
- Pages: 304
- RRP: $24.99
The Roads to Modernity
The British, French and American Enlightenments
- Published: 1 May 2008
- ISBN: 9781845951412
- Imprint: Vintage
- Format: Paperback
- Pages: 304
- RRP: $24.99
Exciting intellectual pugilism... Himmelfarb mounts a vigorous argument
New York Times Book Review
Supported with great passion and wide-ranging scholarship... Himmelfarb has written a keenly argued and thought-provoking intellectual history of the eighteenth century
San Francisco Chronicle
Exceptionally well written and clever
Washington Post
Himmelfarb is one of the keenest intellects of our time
Houston Chronicle
She writes with a real grace and her effortless prose brings the history of ideas to life
Sunday Times
This stimulating essay makes a convincing case for the unique character and significance of the British Enlightenment
Guardian
An intelligent history... the prose is elegant and the arguments engaging and she weaves her way gracefully and effortlessly across centuries, disciplines and nations
Observer