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Author Baggerman, Arianne

Title Child of the Enlightenment : revolutionary Europe reflected in a boyhood diary / by Arianne Baggerman and Rudolf Dekker ; translated by Dianne Webb
Published Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2009

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Description 1 online resource (xii, 553 pages) : illustrations, map
Series Egodocuments and history series, 1873-653X ; v. 1
Egodocuments and history series ; v. 1.
Contents Acknowledgements; Introduction; Prologue; Chapter One An Enlightened Education; Chapter Two Otto's Diary; Chapter Three Required Reading; Chapter Four The Garden as a Pedagogical Project; Chapter Five Social World; Chapter Six Broadening Horizons; Chapter Seven Changing Concepts of Time; Chapter Eight Reconstructing Man and Society; Chapter Nine Revolution in the Netherlands; Chapter Ten Children of the Future; Chapter Eleven Theophilanthropists and Physico-Theologians; Chapter Twelve The Vulnerable Body; Epilogue; Notes; List of Illustrations; Index; Illustration Credits
Summary A diary kept by a boy in the 1790s provides the basis for a panoramic view of the Age of Enlightenment and democratic revolution in Europe, highlighting the emergence of new ideas on education, nature, time, space, religion and politics
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 485-534) and index
Notes Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL
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Subject Eck, Otto van, 1780-1798 -- Diaries
Eck, Otto van, 1780-1798 -- Childhood and youth
SUBJECT Eck, Otto van, 1780-1798 fast
Eck, Otto van. gnd
Eck, Otto van 1780-1798 gnd
Subject Boys -- Netherlands -- Diaries
Enlightenment -- Europe
Diaries -- History and criticism
HISTORY -- General.
Childhood and youth of a person
Boys
Diaries
Enlightenment
Aufklärung
Geistesgeschichte
SUBJECT Netherlands -- Biography
Netherlands -- History -- 1714-1795 -- Sources
Netherlands -- History -- 1795-1815 -- Sources
Europe -- History -- 1789-1815 -- Sources
Subject Europe
Netherlands
Niederlande
Genre/Form Biographies
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Diaries
History
Sources
Form Electronic book
Author Dekker, Rudolf
LC no. 2008044170
ISBN 9789047426165
9047426169
9789004172692
9004172696
1282400770
9781282400771
9786612400773
6612400773
Other Titles Kind van de toekomst. English