The Science of Culture in Enlightenment Germany

Michael C. Carhart

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$71.50 • £57.95 • €64.50

ISBN 9780674026179

Publication Date: 01/31/2008

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374 pages

6-1/8 x 9-1/4 inches

8 halftones, 1 line, 4 maps

Harvard Historical Studies

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List of Maps and Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Words and Things
1. Orientalism and Reform
2. Culture and the Origin of Language
3. The Search for the Historical Plato
4. The Search for the Historical Homer
5. The Search for the Historical Moses
6. The Sociology of Ancient History
7. Three Anthropologies
8. A Scientific Revolution
Conclusion: Enlightenment Social Science
Notes
Index

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