Strangers nowhere in the world : the rise of cosmopolitanism in early modern Europe / Margaret C. Jacob.

Author
Jacob, Margaret C., 1943- [Browse]
Format
Book
Language
English
Published/​Created
Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2006]
Description
1 online resource : illustrations

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"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 centuries of prevailing chauvinism and xenophobia. Perhaps at no time since, Jacob cautions, has that cosmopolitan ideal seemed more fragile and elusive than it is today."--Jacket.
Bibliographic references
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Source of description
Print version record.
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.
ISBN
  • 9780812294231 ((electronic bk.))
  • 0812294238 ((electronic bk.))
OCLC
965903583
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