Reply To: Dr. J, Age of Reason

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Jason Jewell
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Daniel, I actually like that Woloch book in some ways. The chapter on statebuilding says that the State came to be viewed as a “vehicle of salvation” in the 18th century. That’s about as good as you can hope to see from a mainstream survey. I don’t know of another general treatment of the period that would be obviously better than that one.