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New York’s Enlightenment Legacy: Science and Social Mobility

The French Revolution abolished the privileges that were traditionally reserved to noblemen. Military careers were opened to all talent instead.In the wars following the Revolution, masses of young males were drawn into the armed forces, fighting feudalism. It was in...

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