The Shape of the New: Four Big Ideas and How They Made the Modern World

Author/Contributor(s):	Montgomery, Scott L
Publisher:	Princeton University Press
Date:	05/26/2015
Binding:	Hardcover
Condition:	NEW

Examines "Adam Smith, Thomas Jefferson, Alexander Hamilton, Charles Darwin, and Karl Marx--heirs of the Enlightenment who embodied its highest ideals about progress--and shows how their thoughts, over time and in the hands of their followers and opponents, transformed the very nature of our beliefs, institutions, economies, and politics"--Amazon.com.