The Scottish Enlightenment: Race, Gender, and the Limits of Progress

The Scottish Enlightenment shaped a new conception of history as a gradual and universal progress from savagery to civil society. Whereas women emancipated themselves from the yoke of male-masters, men in turn acquired polite manners and became civilized.

Author: Silvia Sebastiani
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Published: 02/22/2013
Pages: 269
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.12lbs
Size: 9.54h x 6.18w x 0.75d
ISBN: 9780230114913

Review Citation(s):
Choice 11/01/2013

About the Author
Silvia Sebastiani is Maître de Conférences (Associate Professor) at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Socials in Paris, France, where she teaches seminars on the experiences and ideologies of race in the early modern period and on Enlightenment historiography, and coordinate the group of research mondes britannique.