Cyber Apocalypse (Book 3): As Our World Burns

✍ Scribed by Hunt, Jack

• Year: 2020
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 116 KB
• Category: Fiction
• ASIN: B088P8WBDP

✦ Synopsis

Introduction: Enlightenment as revolution? -- The revolution in ideas : The state of nature ; The triumph of reason ; The freedom of thought ; The light of experience -- Rule Britannia? : The widening gap ; Imperial rulership ; The Scottish enlightenment -- Revolutionary Americans : An American enlightenment ; Creating the revolution ; Self-evident truths ; The egalitarian movement -- France: rule or ruin? : Royal Paris ; The Philosophes and the people ; The unmaking of a king ; Becoming revolutionary ; The madness of the factions -- Transforming American politics : The life of the nation ; The liberty of a person ; The happiness of the people ; The first transformation? -- Britain: the rules of rulership : The inside game ; The revolution that wasn't ; The fractured debate -- Napoleonic rulership : La grande farce ; Power: the supreme value ; The abdication of the people ; Restoration? -- Britain: industrializing enlightenment : Ideas as capital ; The tyranny of the machine ; Property and poverty ; The new radicals -- France: the crowds of July : The liberal revolt ; Tribunes of the people ; Republican rivals -- The American experiment : We are all republicans ; The Democratic majority ; Liberty and equality ; The new world -- Britain: the fire for reform : Strategies of reform ; Ideas as weapons ; Stumbling toward reform ; The dawning of a liberal party -- The negative of liberty : People as property ; The canker of bondage -- The transformation : The liberal triumph ; The clash of ideas ; A new American enlightenment?;Revisits the two-hundred-year conflagration of the Enlightenment, paying particular attention to America's intellectual revolution, and explores the ideals and arguments that formed the nation and how they affect the world today.