This novel study of political culture in Enlightenment Europe analyses print, public opinion and the transnational dissemination of texts.

Largely due to the cultural and political shift of the Enlightenment, Western societies in the eighteenth century emerged from sectarian conflict and embraced a

Enlightenment in the Colony opens up the history of the "Jewish question" for the first time to a broader discussion--one of the social exclusion of religious a

First Published in 2001. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

In intellectual and political culture today, the Enlightenment is routinely celebrated as the starting point of modernity and secular rationalism, or demonized