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 is Distinguished Professor of History Emerita at the Graduate School of the City University of New York. She is the recipient of the Jefferson Lectureship in the Humanities (1991) and the National Humanities Medal (2004), the two highest honors bestowed by the United States for distinguished achievement in the humanities.

A Fellow of the British Academy, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and the American Philosophical Society, she is also a member of the Council of Scholars of the Library of Congress. She resides in Washington, D.C.

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