A Legal History Of Scotland The Eighteenth Century

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Legal Practice in Eighteenth-Century Scotland

Author : John Finlay
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004294945
Total Pages : 461 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (42 download)

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Download or read book Legal Practice in Eighteenth-Century Scotland written by John Finlay and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2015-07-14 with total page 461 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is the first monograph to analyse the workings of Scotland’s legal profession in its early modern European context. It is a comprehensive survey of lawyers working in the local and central courts; investigating how they interacted with their clients and with each other, the legal principles governing ethical practice, and how they fulfilled a social role through providing free services to the poor and also services to town councils and other corporations. Based heavily on a wide range of archival sources, and reflecting the contemporary importance of local societies of lawyers, John Finlay offers a groundbreaking yet accessible study of the eighteenth-century legal profession which adds a new dimension to our knowledge of Enlightenment Scotland.

John Law

Author : James Buchan
Publisher : Quercus Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9781848666085
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (66 download)

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Download or read book John Law written by James Buchan and published by Quercus Publishing. This book was released on 2020-04-21 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At the summit of his power, John Law was the most famous man in Europe. Born in Scotland in 1671, he was convicted of murder in London and, after his escape from prison, fled Scotland for the mainland when Union with England brought with it a warrant for his arrest. On the continent he lurched from one money-making scheme to the next - selling insurance against losing lottery tickets in Holland, advising the Duke of Savoy - amassing a fortune of some £80,000. But for his next trick he had grander ambitions. When Louis XIV died, leaving a thoroughly bankrupt France to his five-year-old heir, Law gained the ear of the Regent, Philippe D'Orleans. In the years that followed, Law's financial wizardry transformed the fortunes of France, enriching speculators and investors across the continent, and he was made Controller-General of Finances, effectively becoming the French Prime Minister. But the fall from grace that was to follow was every bit as spectacular as his meteoric rise. John Law, by a biographer of Adam Smith and the author of Frozen Desire and Capital of the Mind, dramatises the life of one of the most inventive financiers in history, a man who was born before his time and in whose day the word millionaire came to be coined.

Scottish Philosophy in the Eighteenth Century, Volume I

Author : Aaron Garrett
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 0191502758
Total Pages : 497 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (915 download)

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Download or read book Scottish Philosophy in the Eighteenth Century, Volume I written by Aaron Garrett and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2015-03-05 with total page 497 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A History of Scottish Philosophy is a series of collaborative studies by expert authors, each volume being devoted to a specific period. Together they provide a comprehensive account of the Scottish philosophical tradition, from the centuries that laid the foundation of the remarkable burst of intellectual fertility known as the Scottish Enlightenment, through the Victorian age and beyond, when it continued to exercise powerful intellectual influence at home and abroad. The books aim to be historically informative, while at the same time serving to renew philosophical interest in the problems with which the Scottish philosophers grappled, and in the solutions they proposed. This new history of Scottish philosophy will include two volumes that focus on the Scottish Enlightenment. In this volume a team of leading experts explore the ideas, intellectual context, and influence of Hutcheson, Hume, Smith, Reid, and many other thinkers, frame old issues in fresh ways, and introduce new topics and questions into debates about the philosophy of this remarkable period. The contributors explore the distinctively Scottish context of this philosophical flourishing, and juxtapose the work of canonical philosophers with contemporaries now very seldom read. The outcome is a broadening-out, and a filling-in of the detail, of the picture of the philosophical scene of Scotland in the eighteenth century. General Editor: Gordon Graham, Princeton Theological Seminary

Historical Law-tracts

Author : Lord Henry Home Kames
Publisher : Edinburgh : Printed by A. Kincaid ... for A. Millar in the Strand, London and A. Kincaid and J. Bell, in Edinburgh
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 496 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)

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Download or read book Historical Law-tracts written by Lord Henry Home Kames and published by Edinburgh : Printed by A. Kincaid ... for A. Millar in the Strand, London and A. Kincaid and J. Bell, in Edinburgh. This book was released on 1761 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

A History of Law in Europe

Author : Antonio Padoa-Schioppa
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107180694
Total Pages : 823 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (71 download)

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Book Synopsis A History of Law in Europe by : Antonio Padoa-Schioppa

Download or read book A History of Law in Europe written by Antonio Padoa-Schioppa and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2017-08-03 with total page 823 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first English translation of a comprehensive legal history of Europe from the early middle ages to the twentieth century, encompassing both the common aspects and the original developments of different countries. As well as legal scholars and professionals, it will appeal to those interested in the general history of European civilisation.

History of Everyday Life in Scotland, 1600 to 1800

Author : Elizabeth A Foyster
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
ISBN 13 : 0748629068
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (486 download)

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Book Synopsis History of Everyday Life in Scotland, 1600 to 1800 by : Elizabeth A Foyster

Download or read book History of Everyday Life in Scotland, 1600 to 1800 written by Elizabeth A Foyster and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2010-02-28 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the ordinary daily routines, behaviours, experiences and beliefs of the Scottish people during a period of immense political, social and economic change. It underlines the importance of the church in post-Reformation Scottish society, but also highlights aspects of everyday life that remained the same, or similar, notwithstanding the efforts of the kirk, employers and the state to alter behaviours and attitudes.Drawing upon and interrogating a range of primary sources, the authors create a richly coloured, highly-nuanced picture of the lives of ordinary Scots from birth through marriage to death. Analytical in approach, the coverage of topics is wide, ranging from the ways people made a living, through their non-work activities including reading, playing and relationships, to the ways they experienced illness and approached death.This volume:*Provides a rich and finely nuanced social history of the period 1600-1800 *Gets behind the politics of Union and Jacobitism, and the experience of agricultural and industrial 'revolution'*Presents the scholarly expertise of its contributing authors in a accessible way*Includes a guide to further reading indicating sources for further study

Privilege and Property

Author : Ronan Deazley
Publisher : Open Book Publishers
ISBN 13 : 190692418X
Total Pages : 438 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (69 download)

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Download or read book Privilege and Property written by Ronan Deazley and published by Open Book Publishers. This book was released on 2010 with total page 438 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What can and can't be copied is a matter of law, but also of aesthetics, culture, and economics. The act of copying, and the creation and transaction of rights relating to it, evokes fundamental notions of communication and censorship, of authorship and ownership - of privilege and property. This volume conceives a new history of copyright law that has its roots in a wide range of norms and practices. The essays reach back to the very material world of craftsmanship and mechanical inventions of Renaissance Italy where, in 1469, the German master printer Johannes of Speyer obtained a five-year exclusive privilege to print in Venice and its dominions. Along the intellectual journey that follows, we encounter John Milton who, in his 1644 Areopagitica speech 'For the Liberty of Unlicensed Printing', accuses the English parliament of having been deceived by the 'fraud of some old patentees and monopolizers in the trade of bookselling' (i.e. the London Stationers' Company). Later revisionary essays investigate the regulation of the printing press in the North American colonies as a provincial and somewhat crude version of European precedents, and how, in the revolutionary France of 1789, the subtle balance that the royal decrees had established between the interests of the author, the bookseller, and the public, was shattered by the abolition of the privilege system. Contributions also address the specific evolution of rights associated with the visual and performing arts. These essays provide essential reading for anybody interested in copyright, intellectual history and current public policy choices in intellectual property. The volume is a companion to the digital archive Primary Sources on Copyright (1450-1900), funded by the UK Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC): www.copyrighthistory.org.

The Inner Life of Empires

Author : Emma Rothschild
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 1400838169
Total Pages : 496 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (8 download)

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Download or read book The Inner Life of Empires written by Emma Rothschild and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2011-05-09 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The birth of the modern world as told through the remarkable story of one eighteenth-century family They were abolitionists, speculators, slave owners, government officials, and occasional politicians. They were observers of the anxieties and dramas of empire. And they were from one family. The Inner Life of Empires tells the intimate history of the Johnstones--four sisters and seven brothers who lived in Scotland and around the globe in the fast-changing eighteenth century. Piecing together their voyages, marriages, debts, and lawsuits, and examining their ideas, sentiments, and values, renowned historian Emma Rothschild illuminates a tumultuous period that created the modern economy, the British Empire, and the philosophical Enlightenment. One of the sisters joined a rebel army, was imprisoned in Edinburgh Castle, and escaped in disguise in 1746. Her younger brother was a close friend of Adam Smith and David Hume. Another brother was fluent in Persian and Bengali, and married to a celebrated poet. He was the owner of a slave known only as "Bell or Belinda," who journeyed from Calcutta to Virginia, was accused in Scotland of infanticide, and was the last person judged to be a slave by a court in the British isles. In Grenada, India, Jamaica, and Florida, the Johnstones embodied the connections between European, American, and Asian empires. Their family history offers insights into a time when distinctions between the public and private, home and overseas, and slavery and servitude were in constant flux. Based on multiple archives, documents, and letters, The Inner Life of Empires looks at one family's complex story to describe the origins of the modern political, economic, and intellectual world.

The Cambridge Companion to the Scottish Enlightenment

Author : Alexander Broadie
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521003230
Total Pages : 386 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (32 download)

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Download or read book The Cambridge Companion to the Scottish Enlightenment written by Alexander Broadie and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2003-04-10 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Cambridge Companion to the Scottish Enlightenment offers a philosophical perspective on an eighteenth-century movement that has been profoundly influential on western culture. A distinguished team of contributors examines the writings of David Hume, Adam Smith, Thomas Reid, Adam Ferguson, Colin Maclaurin and other Scottish thinkers, in fields including philosophy, natural theology, economics, anthropology, natural science and law. In addition, the contributors relate the Scottish Enlightenment to its historical context and assess its impact and legacy in Europe, America and beyond. The result is a comprehensive and accessible volume that illuminates the richness, the intellectual variety and the underlying unity of this important movement. It will be of interest to a wide range of readers in philosophy, theology, literature and the history of ideas.

New Perspectives in Scottish Legal History

Author : A. K. R Kiralfy
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317949161
Total Pages : 132 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (179 download)

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Download or read book New Perspectives in Scottish Legal History written by A. K. R Kiralfy and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-01-09 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1984. Part of The Journal of Legal History which publishes articles and book reviews on the history of the law in the British Isles, and also contributes in English on significant developments in the countries of the Commonwealth and the U.S.A. This edition includes articles on sources of literature, institutional writings, dissasine and mortancester in Scots Law, and the 1707 Union.

From Vienna to Chicago and Back

Author : Gerald Stourzh
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226776387
Total Pages : 412 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (267 download)

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Download or read book From Vienna to Chicago and Back written by Gerald Stourzh and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2010-02-15 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Spanning both the history of the modern West and his own five-decade journey as a historian, Gerald Stourzh’s sweeping new essay collection covers the same breadth of topics that has characterized his career—from Benjamin Franklin to Gustav Mahler, from Alexis de Tocqueville to Charles Beard, from the notion of constitution in seventeenth-century England to the concept of neutrality in twentieth-century Austria. This storied career brought him in the 1950s from the University of Vienna to the University of Chicago—of which he draws a brilliant picture—and later took him to Berlin and eventually back to Austria. One of the few prominent scholars equally at home with U.S. history and the history of central Europe, Stourzh has informed these geographically diverse experiences and subjects with the overarching themes of his scholarly achievement: the comparative study of liberal constitutionalism and the struggle for equal rights at the core of Western notions of free government. Composed between 1953 and 2005 and including a new autobiographical essay written especially for this volume, From Vienna to Chicago and Back will delight Stourzh fans, attract new admirers, and make an important contribution to transatlantic history.

A History of England in the Eighteenth Century

Author : William Edward Hartpole Lecky
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (933 download)

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Download or read book A History of England in the Eighteenth Century written by William Edward Hartpole Lecky and published by . This book was released on 1887 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Classical Caledonia

Author : Alan Montgomery
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781474445658
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (456 download)

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Download or read book Classical Caledonia written by Alan Montgomery and published by . This book was released on 2022-05-30 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book focuses on early modern attitudes towards Scotland's ancient past and looks in particular at the ways in which this past was not only misunderstood, but also manipulated in attempts to create a patriotic history for the nation. Adding a new perspective on the formation of Scotland's national identity, the book documents a century-long, often heated debate regarding the extent of Roman influence north of Hadrian's Wall. By exploring the lives and writings of antiquarians, poets and Enlightenment thinkers, it aims to uncover the political, patriotic and intellectual influences which fuelled this debate. Classical Caledonia casts a light on a rarely discussed aspect of Scotland's historiography, one which played a vital role in establishing early modern notions of 'Scottishness' at a time when Scotland was coming to terms with radical and traumatic changes to its position within Britain and the wider world.

Edinburgh History of Scottish Literature: From Columba to the Union (until 1707)

Author : Ian Brown
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
ISBN 13 : 0748628622
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (486 download)

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Download or read book Edinburgh History of Scottish Literature: From Columba to the Union (until 1707) written by Ian Brown and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2006-11-13 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The History begins with the first full-scale critical consideration of Scotland's earliest literature, drawn from the diverse cultures and languages of its early peoples. The first volume covers the literature produced during the medieval and early modern period in Scotland, surveying the riches of Scottish work in Gaelic, Welsh, Old Norse, Old English and Old French, as well as in Latin and Scots. New scholarship is brought to bear, not only on imaginative literature, but also law, politics, theology and philosophy, all placed in the context of the evolution of Scotland's geography, history, languages and material cultures from our earliest times up to 1707.

Scotland in the Age of Improvement

Author : Nicholas T. Phillipson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Scotland in the Age of Improvement written by Nicholas T. Phillipson and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Despite signing the Act of Union in 1707, Scotland remained very much a law unto herself, economically, politically, socially and culturally. This work explores the basis of government, law politics, education, religion and ideology in this fertile period, and offers explanations for some of the cultural and economic achievements this "semi-independent country" witnessed in the 18th century.

The Scottish Enlightenment

Author : Alexander Broadie
Publisher : Birlinn
ISBN 13 : 0857904981
Total Pages : 277 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (579 download)

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Download or read book The Scottish Enlightenment written by Alexander Broadie and published by Birlinn. This book was released on 2012-11-01 with total page 277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Scottish Enlightenment was one of the truly great intellectual and cultural movements of the world. Its achievements in science, philosophy, history, economics, and other disciplines also, were immense; and its influence has hardly if at all been dimmed in the intervening two centuries. This book, written for the general reader, considers the achievement of this most astonishing period of Scottish history. It attends not only to the ideas that made the Scottish Enlightenment such a wondrous moment, but also to the people themselves who generated these ideas – men such as David Hume and Adam Smith, who are still read for the sake of the light they shed on contemporary issues.

Anglo-Scottish Relations from 1603 to 1900

Author : T C Smout
Publisher : Proceedings of the British Aca
ISBN 13 : 9780197263303
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (633 download)

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Download or read book Anglo-Scottish Relations from 1603 to 1900 written by T C Smout and published by Proceedings of the British Aca. This book was released on 2005-12-22 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1603, England and Scotland came together and Great Britain was created. But how did this union last when so many others in Europe have failed? This volume provides an account of two nations who have often differed, remained very distinct and yet have achieved endurance in European terms.