The Shape of the New: Four Big Ideas and How They Made the Modern World

The Shape of the New: Four Big Ideas and How They Made the Modern World

by Daniel Chirot (Author), Daniel Chirot (Author), Scott L. Montgomery (Author)

Synopsis

Examines "Adam Smith, Thomas Jefferson, Alexander Hamilton, Charles Darwin, and Karl Marx--heirs of the Enlightenment who embodied its highest ideals about progress--and shows how their thoughts, over time and in the hands of their followers and opponents, transformed the very nature of our beliefs, institutions, economies, and politics"--Amazon.com.

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Format: Paperback
Pages: 512
Edition: Revised
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 27 Sep 2016

ISBN 10: 0691173192
ISBN 13: 9780691173191