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Diderot And The Art Of Thinking Freely by Curran Andrew S.
Category: Non-Fiction
A spirited biography of the prophetic and sympathetic philosopher who helped build the foundations of the modern world. Denis Diderot is often associated with the decades-long battle to bring the world's first comprehensive Encyclop die into existence. But his most daring writing took place in the shado ...Show more
Who's Black and Why? - A Hidden Chapter from the Eighteenth-Century Invention of Race by Henry Louis Gates Jr. (Editor); Andrew S. Curran (Editor)
Category: History
The first translation and publication of sixteen submissions to the notorious eighteenth-century Bordeaux essay contest on the cause of black skin--an indispensable chronicle of the rise of scientifically based, anti-Black racism.In 1739 Bordeaux's Royal Academy of Sciences announced a contest for the b ...Show more
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