November 2020 Issue Robert Mayhew Three Cheers for Reason The Enlightenment: The Pursuit of Happiness, 1680–1790 By Ritchie Robertson LR
December 2018 Issue Darrin M McMahon The Joys of Enlightenment Power, Pleasure, and Profit: Insatiable Appetites from Machiavelli to Madison By David Wootton LR
July 2018 Issue Robert Irwin There Be Despots Unfabling the East: The Enlightenment’s Encounter with Asia By Jürgen Osterhammel (Translated by Robert Savage) LR
March 2017 Issue Joe Moshenska All Touchy-Feely The Sensational Past: How the Enlightenment Changed the Way We Use Our Senses By Carolyn Purnell LR
December 2015 Issue Ben Hutchinson Loosening the Chains Light in Germany: Scenes from an Unknown Enlightenment By T J Reed LR
November 2015 Issue Dominic Green What’s It To Do with the Price of Bread? The Enlightenment: History of an Idea By Vincenzo Ferrone (Translated by Elisabetta Tarantino) LR
March 2008 Issue Paul Johnson Ideas in Action The Roads to Modernity: The British, French and American Enlightenments By Gertrude Himmelfarb LR
April 2014 Issue Darrin M McMahon Fighting Philosophers Revolutionary Ideas: An Intellectual History of the French Revolution from The Rights of Man to Robespierre By Jonathan Israel LR
May 2013 Issue Andy Martin Chewing Things Over Eating the Enlightenment: Food and the Sciences in Paris, 1670–1760 By E C Spary LR
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