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Book Synopsis The Dundas Despotism by : Michael Fry
Download or read book The Dundas Despotism written by Michael Fry and published by Birlinn Ltd. This book was released on 2004-07-05 with total page 431 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first comprehensive and up-to-date biography of Henry Dundas, 1st Viscount Melville (1742-1811) and his son Robert, 2nd Viscount Melville (1771-1851). Aided by other members of their family, they ruled Scotland from the 1770s to the 1830s in a period of government later dubbed 'the Dundas Despotism'. Using a mass of new primary and secondary material culled from England, Scotland, Ireland and the United States, Michael Fry here challenges the traditional view that theirs was a corrupt and authoritarian regime. He shows that both father and son sought to achieve good government within the accepted political conventions of the age, and that many of the principles they set out to apply were owed directly to Scottish Enlightenment ideas. The Dundases were also of fundamental importance in drawing Scotland more fully into the United Kingdom and enabling the Union of 1707 to work. This is a sparkling reassessment of a crucial period of Scottish, British and imperial history. The Dundas Despotism was previously published by Edinburgh University Press.
Book Synopsis A Catalogue of Rare Books, Original Drawings, Extra Illustrated Works, and Other Interesting Literary Material, Chiefly from the Library of the Late Augustin Daly by : George D. Smith Book Co
Download or read book A Catalogue of Rare Books, Original Drawings, Extra Illustrated Works, and Other Interesting Literary Material, Chiefly from the Library of the Late Augustin Daly written by George D. Smith Book Co and published by . This book was released on 1900 with total page 90 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Enlightenment and the Book by : Richard B. Sher
Download or read book The Enlightenment and the Book written by Richard B. Sher and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2008-09-15 with total page 842 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The late eighteenth century witnessed an explosion of intellectual activity in Scotland by such luminaries as David Hume, Adam Smith, Hugh Blair, William Robertson, Adam Ferguson, James Boswell, and Robert Burns. And the books written by these seminal thinkers made a significant mark during their time in almost every field of polite literature and higher learning throughout Britain, Europe, and the Americas. In this magisterial history, Richard B. Sher breaks new ground for our understanding of the Enlightenment and the forgotten role of publishing during that period. The Enlightenment and the Book seeks to remedy the common misperception that such classics as The Wealth of Nations and The Life of Samuel Johnson were written by authors who eyed their publishers as minor functionaries in their profession. To the contrary, Sher shows how the process of bookmaking during the late eighteenth-century involved a deeply complex partnership between authors and their publishers, one in which writers saw the book industry not only as pivotal in the dissemination of their ideas, but also as crucial to their dreams of fame and monetary gain. Similarly, Sher demonstrates that publishers were involved in the project of bookmaking in order to advance human knowledge as well as to accumulate profits. The Enlightenment and the Book explores this tension between creativity and commerce that still exists in scholarly publishing today. Lavishly illustrated and elegantly conceived, it will be must reading for anyone interested in the history of the book or the production and diffusion of Enlightenment thought.
Book Synopsis From the Flood to the Reign of George Iii by : Alice E. Jacoby
Download or read book From the Flood to the Reign of George Iii written by Alice E. Jacoby and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2016-07-29 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An examination of all eighteenth-century historical works produced by Scots is not the intention of this book, which is instead a case study of a limited number of Scottish eighteenth-century historical writings, here designated as developmental history. Since this is a term new to historiography, some explanation is in order. Prior publications on eighteenth-century historical writings of the type being explored here have used the terms conjectural or theoretical history or new history.
Book Synopsis The Man of Feeling by : Henry Mackenzie
Download or read book The Man of Feeling written by Henry Mackenzie and published by . This book was released on 1780 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Virtuous Discourse written by John Dwyer and published by Edinburgh : J. Donald. This book was released on 1987 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis New Perspectives on the Politics and Culture of Early Modern Scotland by : John Dwyer
Download or read book New Perspectives on the Politics and Culture of Early Modern Scotland written by John Dwyer and published by Birlinn Ltd. This book was released on 2021-12-01 with total page 533 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of essays on early modern Scotland offers 'new perspectives' on aspects of Scottish history from 1560 to 1800. Some essays challenge accepted interpretations; others explore subjects and sources that have previously not attracted the attention of historians; all represent new research on Scottish history from the Reformation to the Enlightenment. They indicate renewed interest in an age crucial to the development of modern Scotland. Contents: Rex Stoicus – George Buchanan, James VI and the Scottish Polity, Scotland, Antichrist and the Invention of Great Britain. Scottish Gaeldom, 1638–1651: The Vernacular Response to the Covenanting Dynamic. The Military and Ministers as Agents of Presbyterian Imperialism in England and Ireland, 1640–1648. Sackcloth for the Sinner or Punishment for the Crime? Church and Secular Courts in Cromwellian Scotland. York in Edinburgh: James VII and the Patronage of Learning in Scotland, 1679–1688. The Polite Academy and the Presbyterians, 1720–1770. Moderates, Managers and Popular Politics in mid-18th century Edinburgh: The Drysdale 'Bustle' of the 1760s. Paradigms and Politics: Manners, Morals and the Rise of Henry Dundas, 1770–1784. Rethinking Das Adam Smith Problem. Childhood and Society in 18th Century Scotland. The Heavenly City of the 18th Century Moderate Divines.
Book Synopsis Arthur Schopenhauer's English Schooling by : Patrick Bridgwater
Download or read book Arthur Schopenhauer's English Schooling written by Patrick Bridgwater and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-08-30 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in 1988 Arthur Schopenhauer’s English Schooling examines the famous German philosopher Arthur Schopenhauer, and his image of England and the influences and experiences which formed that image, notably his visit to England in 1803. His philosophy, when he came to formulate it, showed the pervasive influence of his English reading, was riddled with allusions to his three months at Wimbledon School, and was indeed in many ‘English’ style; above all it was a philosophy designed as a refutation of ‘Christianity’ as understood and practised by his English headmaster, who is the invisible bête noire behind it. In the course of the book two major figures who have hitherto been known only by name are identified and their lives related. The book also examines many background figures in Schopenhauer’s English diary and the letters addressed to him in 1803. This book, which is based on a wide variety of hitherto unknown material from many different sources, will permanently modify our view of his philosophy; it also has important implications for educationalists and for all interest in the history of ideas.
Book Synopsis The Life of Adam Smith by : Ian Simpson Ross
Download or read book The Life of Adam Smith written by Ian Simpson Ross and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2010-09-23 with total page 624 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This new edition of The Life of Adam Smith remains the only book to give a full account of Smith's life whilst also placing his work into the context of his life and times. Updated to include new scholarship which has recently come to light, this full-scale biography of Adam Smith examines the personality, career, and social and intellectual circumstances of the Scottish moral philosopher regarded as the founder of scientific economics, whose legacy of thought - most notably about the free market and the role of the state - concerns us all. Ian Simpson Ross draws on correspondence, archival documents, the reports of contemporaries, and the record of Smith's publications to fashion a lively account of Adam Smith as a man of letters, moralist, historian, and critic, as well as an economist. Supported with full scholarly apparatus for students and academics, the book also offers 20 halftone illustrations representing Smith and the world in which he lived.
Book Synopsis Catalogues of Sales by : Sotheby & Co. (London, England)
Download or read book Catalogues of Sales written by Sotheby & Co. (London, England) and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 938 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Sir Walter Scott (English Men of Letters Series) by : Richard Holt Hutton
Download or read book Sir Walter Scott (English Men of Letters Series) written by Richard Holt Hutton and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2019-12-10 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Sir Walter Scott (English Men of Letters Series)" by Richard Holt Hutton. Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten−or yet undiscovered gems−of world literature, we issue the books that need to be read. Each Good Press edition has been meticulously edited and formatted to boost readability for all e-readers and devices. Our goal is to produce eBooks that are user-friendly and accessible to everyone in a high-quality digital format.
Book Synopsis Henry Dundas, First Viscount Melville, 1742-1811 by : Holden Furber
Download or read book Henry Dundas, First Viscount Melville, 1742-1811 written by Holden Furber and published by . This book was released on 1931 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book AB Bookman's Weekly written by and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 594 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Scotland in the Age of the French Revolution by : Bob Harris
Download or read book Scotland in the Age of the French Revolution written by Bob Harris and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Despite the profusion of work in recent decades on Irish and English politics in the French revolutionary era, Scotland in this period remains largely neglected, barely featuring in some recent books ostensibly on the history of Britain. The essays in this volume, written by scholars from Britain and Ireland, will help fill this gap. While not presenting a single, uniform view, several of them at the very least cast doubt on the notion of a Scotland in this period of adamantine stability and begin to recover some powerful dissident voices in the political exchanges of the 1790s. They show that the stability discerned in retrospect by some historians was not what struck most contemporaries who were witness to the successive, often alarming strains and challenges of the period which served cumulatively to shatter any complacency which existed about the terms of elite rule and authority in a society undergoing profound and rapid change."--BOOK JACKET.
Book Synopsis The Scottish Enlightenment and Literary Culture by : Ronnie Young
Download or read book The Scottish Enlightenment and Literary Culture written by Ronnie Young and published by Bucknell University Press. This book was released on 2016-11-17 with total page 315 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of essays explores the role played by imaginative writing in the Scottish Enlightenment and its interaction with the values and activities of that movement. Across a broad range of areas via specially commissioned essays by experts in each field, the volume examines the reciprocal traffic between the groundbreaking intellectual project of eighteenth-century Scotland and the imaginative literature of the period, demonstrating that the innovations made by the Scottish literati laid the foundations for developments in imaginative writing in Scotland and further afield. In doing so, it provide a context for the widespread revaluation of the literary culture of the Scottish Enlightenment and the part that culture played in the project of Enlightenment.
Download or read book Henry Dundas written by Holden Furber and published by . This book was released on 1931 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis A History of the Scotch Presbyterian Church, St. Gabriel Street, Montreal by : Robert Campbell
Download or read book A History of the Scotch Presbyterian Church, St. Gabriel Street, Montreal written by Robert Campbell and published by . This book was released on 1887 with total page 894 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
