Table of Contents

Introduction
1. Censors, Inquisitors, and Cosmopolites
2. Alchemy, Science, and a Universalist Language
3. Markets Not So Free
4. Secrecy and the Paradox at the Heart of Modernity (the Masonic Moment)
5. Liberals, Radicals, and Bohemians

Epilogue
Notes
Index
Acknowledgments

About the Author

Margaret C. Jacob is Distinguished Professor of History at the University of California, Los Angeles. She is the 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.

Reviews

"Elegantly written, intellectually stimulating, and politically insightful."--American Historical Review "Although the book's focus lies across the Atlantic, centuries ago, Strangers Nowhere in the World has much to tell Americans and other contemporaries who would call themselves 'citizens of the world.'"--Wall Street Journal