A World to Win: A History of Everything w/ David Wengrow
Jacobin Radio
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The Origins of the Enlightenment
In the seventeenth century, there were two frenchmena who made it their business to actually record a lot of these discussions. The key one seems to be a grafine's letters from a peruvian woman. She mounts many of the same arguments that candiranc would have said in his observations about europe. These books took off like wildfire and all these other imitations drew from them.
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