The Roads to Modernity

Supported with great passion and wide-ranging scholarship… Himmelfarb has written a keenly argued and thought-provoking intellectual history of the eighteenth century * San Francisco Chronicle *
Exceptionally well written and clever * Washington Post *
She writes with a real grace and her effortless prose brings the history of ideas to life * Sunday Times *
This stimulating essay makes a convincing case for the unique character and significance of the British Enlightenment * Guardian *
An intelligent history… the prose is elegant and the arguments engaging and she weaves her way gracefully and effortlessly across centuries, disciplines and nations * Observer *
Exciting intellectual pugilism… Himmelfarb mounts a vigorous argument * New York Times Book Review *
Himmelfarb is one of the keenest intellects of our time * Houston Chronicle *

Gertrude Himmelfarb has taught at the Graduate School of the City University of New York, where she was named Distinguished Professor of History in 1978 and is now Professor Emeritus. She has received the two highest honours bestowed by the United States for distinguished achievement in the humanities- the Jefferson Lectureship in the Humanities in 1991, and the National Humanities Medal in 2004. She is a Fellow of the British Academy, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and the American Philosophical Society, and is a member of the Council of Scholars of the Library of Congress. She lives in Washington, D.C.

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