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Title	Author	# of Pages
The Empire of Reason: How Europe Imagined and America Realized the Enlightenment	Henry Steele Commager	342

Contents

I    The Enlightenment as an Age of Discovery    (p. 1)
II    The Enlightenment Spreads to America    (p. 15)
III    The Enlightenment Unveils a New World of Nature and of Man    (p. 40)
IV    America Under Attack    (p. 71)
V    The Enlightenment Vindicates America    (p. 85)
VI    The Enlightenment Celebrates the Spirit of the Laws    (p. 109)
VII    "The Uncorrupted New States and the Corrupted Old"    (p. 119)
VIII    Americans Bring Forth a New Nation    (p. 162)
IX    Americans Realize the Theories of the Wisest Writers    (p. 176)
X    The Blessings of Liberty    (p. 198)

Appendix    The Term "Philosophe"    (p. 236)
Index    (p. 321)