Remaking the world European distinctiveness and the transformation of politics, culture, and the economy - Seigel, Jerrold E. 1936- (Cambridge University Press, 2025)
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Introduction -- A preoccupation with liberty -- From liberties to liberty -- Liberties elsewhere -- Spheres of autonomy: The church, universities, and the bounds of reason -- Classical humanism and aesthetics -- Science as a sphere of autonomy -- Teleocratic sciences -- Other peoples, other places -- Empire: material expansion, moral contraction, and internal criticism -- Courage and weakness: anti-imperialism and its limits in the nineteenth century -- Autonomy and transformation: Britain -- Transformation and autonomy: France and Germany -- Ready or not? China and India -- Conclusion -- Acknowledgments -- Endnotes