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Strangers nowhere in the world : the rise of cosmopolitanism in early modern Europe /

"Drawing upon sources as various as Inquisition records and spy reports, minutes of scientific societies and the writings of political revolutionaries, Strangers Nowhere in the World reveals a moment in European history when an ideal of cultural openness came to seem strong enough to counter ce...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Jacob, Margaret C., 1943- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2006]
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Censors, inquisitors, and cosmopolites
  • Alchemy, science, and a universalist language
  • Markets not so free
  • Secrecy and the paradox at the heart of modernity (the Masonic moment)
  • Liberals, radicals, and Bohemians.