Chapter 18 Review: Suggested References

Gay’s interpretive study of the Enlightenment remains useful, but the Kors volumes offer the most up-to-date views. Readers can find different perspectives in studies of individual rulers, their routes to power, and their reactions to the Enlightenment.

Beales, Derek. Enlightenment and Reform in Eighteenth-Century Europe. 2005.

Cash, Arthur H. John Wilkes: The Scandalous Father of Civil Liberty. 2006.

Catherine the Great: http://russia.nypl.org/home.html

Danley, Mark, and Patrick Speelman, eds. The Seven Years’ War: Global Views. 2012.

Gay, Peter. The Enlightenment: An Interpretation. 2 vols. 1966, 1969.

*Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von. The Sufferings of Young Werther. Trans. Stanley Corngold. 2012.

Gray, Edward G., and Jane Kamensky, eds. The Oxford Handbook of the American Revolution. 2013.

Hempton, David. Church in the Long Eighteenth Century. 2011.

Kors, Alan Charles, ed. Encyclopedia of the Enlightenment. 4 vols. 2003.

Melton, James Van Horn. The Rise of the Public in Enlightenment Europe. 2001.

Rothschild, Emma. Economic Sentiments: Adam Smith, Condorcet and the Enlightenment. 2001.

*Rousseau, Jean-Jacques. Discourse on the Origin and Foundations of Inequality among Men. Ed. Helena Rosenblatt. 2011.

Venturi, Franco. The End of the Old Regime in Europe, 1768–1776: The First Crisis. Trans. R. Burr Litchfield. 1989.