Key Thinkers of the English, Scottish and American Enlightenments: From Locke to Madison

Bys: Ramet, Sabrina P. and Knutsen, Torbjørn L.

This book summarizes and explains the way in which political thinkers in England, Scotland, and North America reshaped Western thinking about government and citizens. Although the ideas of the Anglo-American Enlightenment can be traced back, in embryo, to the Italian Renaissance and the Protestant Reformation, it was responses to wars - the Thirty Years' War (1618-1648) and the English Civil War (1642-1651) which were fought above all over religion...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 303162453X
• ISBN13: 9783031624537
• Release Date: August 2024
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 143 Pages