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Scotland in the eighteenth century : union and enlightenment
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Title
Scotland in the eighteenth century : union and enlightenment / David Allan.
ISBN
0582382475
1315838613
1317877403
9780582382473
9781315838618
9781317877400
Published
Harlow : Longman, ©2002.
Physical Description
1 online resource (vi, 220 pages : maps
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Summary
This is an introduction to Scottish history in the 18th which is completely up-to-date and gives equal emphasis to politics and religion. Once a small and isolated country with an unenviable reputation for poverty and instability, by 1800 Scotland it was emerging as an economic powerhouse, a major colonial power and an internationally acclaimed center of European philosophy, science and literature. This thematic investigation explores the experiences and responses of a people whose world was being fundamentally reconfigured and offers some topical and thought-provoking lessons from a dramatic.
Variant and related titles
Scotland in the 18th century
Taylor & Francis. EBA 2024-2025.
Other formats
Print version: Allan, David. Scotland in the Eighteenth Century : Union and Enlightenment. Hoboken : Taylor and Francis, ©2014
Format
Books / Online
Language
English
Added to Catalog
August 08, 2024
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; List of Maps; Acknowledgements; 1 Nation; Convergence and crisis; Treating for Union; The machinery of post-Union politics; Management and patronage; Politics and the people; Patriotism and identity; 2 Belief; A presbyterian Revolution; Controversy and conformity; Jacobitism: ideology and intrigue; The 'Forty-five; Moderatism: toleration and civility; Evangelicalism; Dissent and Popery; Popular superstition; 3 Lives; Population and settlement; National crisis and economic change; Agricultural improvement.
Commerce, trade and manufacturesIndustrialisation; Social structure and social experience; Social institutions; 4 Ideas; Scottish society and polite culture; 'Nature and nature's laws'; The limits of knowing; 'From savage to Scotchman'; Sense and sentiment; In the mind's eye; 5 Empire; Migrants, mercenaries and the will to empire; North America and settlement; India and the East; An imperial Union; 6 Endings; Bibliographical Essay; Index.
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