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John Millar and the Scottish Enlightenment : family life and world history
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- Creator
- Nicholas B. Miller
- Format
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- Language
- English
- Publication
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- Oxford, UK : Voltaire Foundation, [2017]
- ©2017
- Physical Details
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- xii, 240 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- ISBNs
- 9780729411929, 0729411923
- OCLC
- ocn975940516
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 217-234) and index.
- Introduction -- Polygamy : an adversary of Enlightenment -- Before patriarchy : maternal power in primitive societies -- The Amazons and the fringes of enlightened thought -- Race, conquest and the family : Enlightenment assessments of the domestic order of colonial Spanish America -- Family and state after the rise of the individual : John Millar's reforms for commercial society -- Conclusion