What Is “Western Civilization”?

An Incomplete Reading List: Some Sources for My Current Research

Filling in the gaps from the Early Modern era to the Enlightenment(s)

L.D. Burnett
3 min readMay 12, 2021

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The first draft of my chapter on the discourse of “civilization” during the American Enlightenments—to borrow Caroline Winterer’s designation—is finished and I…

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L.D. Burnett

Writer and historian from / in California’s Great Central Valley. Book, “Western Civilization: The History of an American Idea,” under contract w/ UNC Press.