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Author : J. Rendall
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1349041408
Total Pages : 263 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (49 download)
Download or read book Origins of the Scottish Enlightenment, 1707-76 written by J. Rendall and published by Springer. This book was released on 1978-06-17 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Jane Rendall
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781349041428
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (414 download)
Download or read book Origins of the Scottish Enlightenment written by Jane Rendall and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Jane Rendall
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780312588663
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (886 download)
Download or read book The Origins of the Scottish Enlightenment written by Jane Rendall and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : R.H. Campbell
Publisher : John Donald
ISBN 13 : 1788854225
Total Pages : 365 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (888 download)
Download or read book The Origins and Nature of the Scottish Enlightenment written by R.H. Campbell and published by John Donald. This book was released on 2004-01-24 with total page 365 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the first part of the volume are collected six essays which comment on mainly institutional matters: the merchant community, the universities and the study of science and medicine. Two important themes emerge from these studies; firstly the significant role played by remarkable and learned individuals such as Andrew Melville and George Drummond in the Enlightenment. Secondly, the beginnings of interest in the political, scientific and economic ideas that were to shape Scotland's golden age are traced to the late seventeenth century. These essays then collectively and firmly reject Trevor-Roper's thesis that 'at the end of the seventeenth century, Scotland was a by-word for irredeemable poverty, social backwardness, political faction. The universities were the unreformed seminaries of a fanatical clergy.' The second part of the volume has a narrower focus, and the essays presented here show how developments in science and philosophy were used to question theological dogma, in particular how the claims of reason were maintained as a challenge to a theology of revelation. The collection ends with a series of essays exploring the definition and defence of the principles of natural law by means of appeal to reason, sentiment and experience. This is a stimulating and persuasive collection of essays on an important and attractive era in Scotland's cultural history.
Author : Ian Brown
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 408 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 (3 download)
Download or read book The Edinburgh History of Scottish Literature: Enlightenment, Britain and Empire (1707-1918) written by Ian Brown and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Between 1707 and 1918, Scotland underwent arguably the most dramatic upheavals in its political, economic and social history. The Union with England, industrialisation and Scotland's subsequent defining contributions throughout the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries to the culture of Britain and Empire are reflected in the transformative energies of Scottish literature and literary institutions in the period. New genres, new concerns and whole new areas of interest opened under the creative scrutiny of sceptical minds. This second volume of the History reveals the major contribution made by Scottish writers and Scottish writing to the shape of modernity in Britain, Europe and the world.
Author : Paul Hyland
Publisher : Psychology Press
ISBN 13 : 9780415204491
Total Pages : 494 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (44 download)
Download or read book The Enlightenment written by Paul Hyland and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 494 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This oustanding sourcebook brings together the work of major Enlightenment thinkers to illustrate the full importance and achievements of this great period of change.
Author : Stephen W Brown
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
ISBN 13 : 0748650954
Total Pages : 688 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (486 download)
Download or read book Edinburgh History of the Book in Scotland, Volume 2 written by Stephen W Brown and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2011-11-30 with total page 688 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first thorough study of the book trade during the age of Fergusson and Burns.
Author : Roy Porter
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1137098007
Total Pages : 90 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (37 download)
Download or read book The Enlightenment written by Roy Porter and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2019-08-22 with total page 90 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The eighteenth-century Enlightenment was one of the most exciting and significant currents of European culture. Battling against tyranny, ignorance and superstition, it formulated the ideals which still inform our society today: a belief in reason, criticism, freedom of thought, religion and expression, the value of science, the pursuit of progress. Enlightenment thinkers undermined the ancien regime and provided the ideas for the French Revolution. Modern scholarship, however, has shown it was a more complex and ambiguous movement than commonly recognized. This book, now in a fully updated second edition, sympathetically explores the complexities of the Enlightenment. Synthesizing and evaluating the latest scholarship, it offers a new and comprehensive vision of this many-faceted movement.
Author : Matthew Daniel Eddy
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226820750
Total Pages : 531 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (268 download)
Download or read book Media and the Mind written by Matthew Daniel Eddy and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2023-07-10 with total page 531 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A beautifully illustrated argument that reveals notebooks as extraordinary paper machines that transformed knowledge on the page and in the mind. Information is often characterized as facts that float effortlessly across time and space. But before the nineteenth century, information was seen as a process that included a set of skills enacted through media on a daily basis. How, why, and where were these mediated facts and skills learned? Concentrating on manuscripts created by students in Scotland between 1700 and 1830, Matthew Daniel Eddy argues that notebooks functioned as workshops where notekeepers learned to judge the accuracy, utility, and morality of the data they encountered. He shows that, in an age preoccupied with "enlightened" values, the skills and materials required to make and use notebooks were not simply aids to reason—they were part of reason itself. Covering a rich selection of material and visual media ranging from hand-stitched bindings to watercolor paintings, the book problematizes John Locke's comparison of the mind to a blank piece of paper, the tabula rasa. Although one of the most recognizable metaphors of the British Enlightenment, scholars seldom consider why it was so successful for those who used it. Eddy makes a case for using the material culture of early modern manuscripts to expand the meaning of the metaphor in a way that offers a clearer understanding of the direct relationship that existed between thinking and notekeeping. Starting in the home, moving to schools, and then ending with universities, the book explores this argument by reconstructing the relationship between media and the mind from the bottom up.
Author : William C. Lehmann
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 9789401700399
Total Pages : 358 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (3 download)
Download or read book Henry Home, Lord Kames, and the Scottish Enlightenment: A Study in National Character and in the History of Ideas written by William C. Lehmann and published by Springer. This book was released on 1971-01-01 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The purpose of the present study is to present the life and work and thought of a remarkable pioneering figure on the Scottish scene over the middle half, broadly, of the eighteenth century, in their dynamic relations with that most extraordinary intellectual awakening and scientific, edu cational, literary and religious development of his time generally known as the "Scottish Enlightenment. " That movement in thought and culture was indeed in more ways than one a unique phenomenon in the history of western culture, comparable, in its own manner and measure, as we shall attempt to point out later, with such history-making movements or epochs as the Age of Pericles in Greece, the Augustan Age in Rome, the Renaissance movement in Italy and Western Europe generally, the up-surge both in science and in letters in England in the seventeenth century, and the contemporary movement in France associated with the Encyclopedists. This Scottish Enlightenment, often also spoken of as the "Awakening of Scotland," was of course more than a movement merely on the intel lectual and cultural level. It had also political bearings and was rather directly conditioned by events and changes in the political arena, begin ning with the Union with England in 1707; and even more directly was it accompanied and conditioned by social and economic changes which were in a short span of time to transform the face of this far-northern country almost beyond recognition.
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Publisher : Manchester University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780719058998
Total Pages : 168 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (589 download)
Download or read book The Study of History written by and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: History is a subject which never stands still. It is always changing its philosophies, its contours, its leading questions, its politics, its conceptual status and its methodologies. This bibliographical guide to the study of history is wide-ranging in scope extending from the ancient world to the 20th century. It deliberately concentrates on modern historians' views, provides a substantial section on the philosophy of history, charts controversies and highlights the continual evolution and diversification of history. The material is logically organized in major areas and subsections, and cross-references are given where appropriate. An index of authors, editors and compilers is also provided.
Author : Jamal Malik
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9789004118027
Total Pages : 382 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (18 download)
Download or read book Perspectives of Mutual Encounters in South Asian History written by Jamal Malik and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2000 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The reciprocal relationship between colonialists and the colonised people of India, during the crucial period from 1760 to 1860, provides fascinating study material. This edited volume explores cultural colonialism by focussing on the ambivalent processes of reciprocal perceptions.
Author : John D Ford
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1847313981
Total Pages : 662 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (473 download)
Download or read book Law and Opinion in Scotland during the Seventeenth Century written by John D Ford and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2007-11-20 with total page 662 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Britain at least, changes in the law are expected to be made by the enactment of statutes or the decision of cases by senior judges. Lawyers express opinions about the law but do not expect their opinions to form part of the law. It was not always so. This book explores the relationship between the opinions expressed by lawyers and the development of the law of Scotland in the century preceding the parliamentary union with England in 1707, when it was decided that the private law of Scotland was sufficiently distinctive and coherent to be worthy of preservation. Credit for this surprising decision, which has resulted in the survival of two separate legal systems in Britain, has often been given to the first Viscount Stair, whose Institutions of the Law of Scotland had appeared in a revised edition in 1693. The present book places Stair's treatise in historical context and asks whether it could have been his intention in writing to express the type of authoritative opinions that could have been used to consolidate the emerging law, and whether he could have been motivated in writing by a desire to clarify the relationship between the laws of Scotland and England. In doing so the book provides a fresh account of the literature and practice of Scots law in its formative period and at the same time sheds light on the background to the 1707 union. It will be of interest to legal historians and Scots lawyers, but it should also be accessible to lay readers who wish to know more about the law and legal history of Scotland
Author : James J.F. Forest
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 1402040121
Total Pages : 1057 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (2 download)
Download or read book International Handbook of Higher Education written by James J.F. Forest and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2008-01-18 with total page 1057 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides a central, authoritative source of reference on the most essential topics of higher education. The International Handbook of Higher Education combines a rich diversity of scholarly perspectives with a wide range of internationally derived descriptions and analyses. Chapters in the first volume cover central themes in the study of higher education, while contributors to the second volume focuses on contemporary higher education issues within specific countries or regions. Together, these volumes provide a centralized, easily accessible, yet scholarly source of information.
Author : Burton R. Clark
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 9780520061651
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (616 download)
Download or read book Perspectives on Higher Education written by Burton R. Clark and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1987-01-01 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Alice E. Jacoby
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
ISBN 13 : 1524527920
Total Pages : 171 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (245 download)
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 171 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.
Author : Stephen Copley
Publisher : Manchester University Press
ISBN 13 : 1526184176
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (261 download)
Download or read book Adam Smith's Wealth of Nations written by Stephen Copley and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2024-06-04 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1776, Adam Smith's Wealth of Nations is much more than just a handbook on the principles of free-market economics; it is a founding text for the organisation of Western society in its broadest sense. In order to understand the impact of Smith's text across the academic disciplines, this volume brings together leading scholars from fields of economics, politics, history, sociology and literature. Each essay offers a different reading of Wealth of Nations and its legacy. Contributors consider the historical context in which Wealth of Nations was written, its reception and its profound impact on contemporary concepts of market liberalism, on education, on gender relations and on environmental debates. The volume also offers deconstructive analyses of the text and a feminist critique of Smith's construction of the economy. This volume will be the ideal companion to Smith's work for all students of literature, politics and economic history.
