Catherine & Diderot : the empress, the philosopher, and the fate of the Enlightenment /

When Empires Collide is a history of the famous encounter between the French philosopher Denis Diderot and his patron, Empress Catherine II of Russia, in 1773. The book begins many years earlier and traces the life of Diderot and Catherine in alternating chapters, painting a vivid and complex portra...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Zaretsky, Robert, 1955- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, 2019.
Subjects:
Catherine > II, > Empress of Russia, > 1729-1796.
Diderot, Denis, > 1713-1784.
Diderot, Denis, > 1713-1784
Catherine > II, > Empress of Russia, > 1729-1796
Enlightenment > Russia > History.
Siècle des Lumières > Russie > Histoire.
PHILOSOPHY > History & Surveys > Modern.
HISTORY > Europe > France.
Enlightenment.
Russia.
History.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • The sea at Scheveningen
  • Reading Voltaire in St. Petersburg
  • R is for Riga
  • Glasnost
  • The shadow lands
  • The Hermitage
  • Extraordinary men and events
  • Colic and constitutions
  • The road not taken
  • Send for Seneca.

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