Commager, Henry Steele, 1902-1998.

The empire of reason : how Europe imagined and America realized the Enlightenment / Henry Steele Commager. - New York : Oxford University Press, c1977. - xiv, 342 p. : ill. ; 21 cm.

Reprint. Originally published: Garden City, N.Y. : Anchor Press/Doubleday, 1977.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

0195030621 (pbk.) 0385116721


Enlightenment--United States.


United States--Intellectual life--18th century.
United States--History--Causes.--Revolution, 1775-1783

973.2 / COE 1977