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  • Living the Enlightenment

    Freemasonry and Politics in Eighteenth-Century Europe

    by Margaret C. Jacob ...
    Long recognized as more than the writings of a dozen or so philosophes, the Enlightenment created a new secular culture populated by the literate and the affluent. Enamoured of British institutions, Continental Europeans turned to the imported masonic lodges and found in them a new forum that was constitutionally constructed and logically egalitarian. Originating in the Middle Ages, when stone ... Read more

    $25.99 CAD

  • Living the Enlightenment

    Freemasonry and Politics in Eighteenth-Century Europe

    by Margaret C. Jacob ...
    Long recognized as more than the writings of a dozen or so philosophes, the Enlightenment created a new secular culture populated by the literate and the affluent. Enamoured of British institutions, Continental Europeans turned to the imported masonic lodges and found in them a new forum that was constitutionally constructed and logically egalitarian. Originating in the Middle Ages, when stone ... Read more

    $25.59 CAD

  • The Origins of Freemasonry

    Facts and Fictions

    by Margaret C. Jacob ...
    Can the ancestry of freemasonry really be traced back to the Knights Templar? Is the image of the eye in a triangle on the back of the dollar bill one of its cryptic signs? Is there a conspiracy that stretches through centuries and generations to align this shadow organization and its secret rituals to world governments and religions? Myths persist and abound about the freemasons, Margaret C. ... Read more

    $31.99 CAD

  • Strangers Nowhere in the World

    The Rise of Cosmopolitanism in Early Modern Europe

    by Margaret C. Jacob ...
    The mingling of aristocrats and commoners in a southern French city, the jostling of foreigners in stock markets across northern and western Europe, the club gatherings in Paris and London of genteel naturalists busily distilling plants or making air pumps, the ritual fraternizing of "brothers" in privacy and even secrecy—Margaret Jacob invokes all these examples in Strangers Nowhere in the World ... Read more

    $39.99 CAD

  • Strangers Nowhere in the World

    The Rise of Cosmopolitanism in Early Modern Europe

    by Margaret C. Jacob ...
    The mingling of aristocrats and commoners in a southern French city, the jostling of foreigners in stock markets across northern and western Europe, the club gatherings in Paris and London of genteel naturalists busily distilling plants or making air pumps, the ritual fraternizing of "brothers" in privacy and even secrecy—Margaret Jacob invokes all these examples in Strangers Nowhere in the World ... Read more

    $31.99 CAD

  • The Secular Enlightenment

    by Margaret Jacob ...
    A major new history of how the Enlightenment transformed people’s everyday livesThe Secular Enlightenment is a panoramic account of the radical ways that life began to change for ordinary people in the age of Locke, Voltaire, and Rousseau. In this landmark book, familiar Enlightenment figures share places with voices that have remained largely unheard until now, from freethinkers and freemasons to ... Read more

    $27.99 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • The Origins of Freemasonry

    Facts and Fictions

    by Margaret C. Jacob ...
    Can the ancestry of freemasonry really be traced back to the Knights Templar? Is the image of the eye in a triangle on the back of the dollar bill one of its cryptic signs? Is there a conspiracy that stretches through centuries and generations to align this shadow organization and its secret rituals to world governments and religions? Myths persist and abound about the freemasons, Margaret C. ... Read more

    $39.99 CAD

  • Just Beneath Your Boat

    Tales of Aquatic Terror

    by Kasey Hill, Thomas Folske, Rob Tannahill, Claire Davon, Michael Cole, Milan Simić, Michael Mortimer, Justin Carlos Alcala, David McDonald, Blake Hoss, Charles Reis, Denise Landry, Dino Parenti, DJ Tyrer, Don Anelli, Lillian Csernica, LJ Jacobs, Margaret Eve, Matthew Chabin, Jeff Parsons, Mawr Gorshin, Miguel Fliguer, Pip Pinkerton, Stephen A. Roddewig, CJ Hooper, Alhiya Hoffman, Amelia Folske, Kelsey Grimmel, Ben Merk, Michelle Hanson, Olivia Davis, Sidney Shiv, Todor Gotchkov, Warren Muzak ...
    23 authors and 11 artists came together to create this aquatic horror anthology curated and edited by Tom Folske. Throughout history, tales of water monsters have fueled sailors' and swimmers' stories, bringing a new fear from the murky depths of the world's most unexplored regions. As it stands, we know more about space than what we know about what lurks at the bottom of the deepest trenches of ... Read more

    $6.00 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Practical Matter

    Newton's Science in the Service of Industry and Empire, 1687–1851

    by Margaret C. Jacob, Larry Stewart ...
    "A highly ambitious and provocative survey of the cultural history of science and industry" from the seventeenth to the nineteenth centuries ( Journal of Modern History).In 1687, the publication of Isaac Newton's Principia Mathematica sparked a profound transformation in the world. From that event in the late-seventeenth century to the Crystal Palace Exhibition of 1851, science gradually moved to ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The First Knowledge Economy

    Human Capital and the European Economy, 1750–1850

    by Margaret C. Jacob ...
    Ever since the Industrial Revolution debate has raged about the sources of the new, sustained western prosperity. Margaret Jacob here argues persuasively for the critical importance of knowledge in Europe's economic transformation during the period from 1750 to 1850, first in Britain and then in selected parts of northern and western Europe. This is a new history of economic development in which ... Read more

    $41.99 CAD

  • Audiobook

    The Secular Enlightenment

    by Margaret Jacob ...
    Narrated by Elizabeth Wiley ...

    Unabridged

    10 hours

    The Secular Enlightenment is a panoramic account of the radical ways that life began to change for ordinary people in the age of Locke, Voltaire, and Rousseau. In this landmark book, familiar Enlightenment figures share places with voices that have remained largely unheard until now, from freethinkers and freemasons to French materialists, anticlerical Catholics, pantheists, pornographers, readers ... Read more

    $36.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

  • Telling the Truth about History

    by Joyce Appleby, Lynn Hunt, Margaret Jacob ...
    "A fascinating historiographical essay. . . . An unusually lucid and inclusive explication of what it ultimately at stake in the culture wars over the nature, goals, and efficacy of history as a discipline."—Booklist ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD