The Idea of Progress in Eighteenth-Century Britain - Hardcover

by David Spadafora (Author)

The idea of progress stood at the very center of the intellectual world of eighteenth-century Britain, closely linked to every major facet of the British Enlightenment as well as to the economic revolutions of the period. Drawing on hundreds of eighteenth-century books and pamphlets, David Spadafora here provides the most extensive discussion ever written of this prevailing sense of historical optimism.

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David Spadafora provides the most extensive discussion written about eighteenth-century Britain, challenging long-held views on the extent of its popularity and its supposed importation from France.