Studies in Eighteenth-Century Culture Laura Van Prooyen By building the Beloved Community

By building the Beloved Community we unify the country around a shared moral vision that transcends ideology and partisanship

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Here self-interest degenerated into a state of war from which humanity could only be extricated by the imposition of a contract

she and her mother travelled by any means possible through the horrors of Stalin's Russia

Studies in Eighteenth-Century Culture Laura Van Prooyen By building the Beloved CommunityAlways interdisciplinary, the field of eighteenth century studies has recently become genuinely international. To reflect this global emphasis, this volume of Studies in Eighteenth Century Culture gathers four essays under the rubric of ''The Geography of Enlightenment.'' Set in a variety of local habitations from the European periphery to the American frontier, each of these essays addresses how a relative sense of place determines interpretation.