 | Strangers Nowhere in the World: The Rise of Cosmopolitanism in Early Modern Europe Drawing on sources as various as Inquisition records and spy reports, minutes of scientific societies and the writings of political revolutionaries, Margaret C. Jacob reveals a moment in European history when an ideal of cultural openness came to seem strong enough to counter centuries of prevailing chauvinism and xenophobia. Margaret C. Jacob is Distinguished Professor of History at the University of California, Los Angeles. She is author of many books, including The Enlightenment: A Brief History with Selected Texts, Scientific Culture and the Making of the Industrial West, and, most recently, The Origins of Freemasonry: Facts and Fictions, also available from the University of Pennsylvania Press. |
