The Wreckage of Intentions: Projects in British Culture, 1660-1730 by David Alff

The Wreckage of Intentions: Projects in British Culture, 1660-1730

David Alff

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The seventeenth and eighteenth centuries in Britain saw the proposal of so many endeavors called "projects"--a catchphrase for the daring, sometimes dangerous practice of shaping the future--that Daniel Defoe dubbed his era a "Projecting Age." The...

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