An Account Of The Present State Of The Hebrides And Western Coasts Of Scotland

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An Account of the Present State of the Hebrides. and Western Coasts of Scotland

Author : James Anderson
Publisher : Gale Ecco, Print Editions
Page : 660 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2018-04-29
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1385913363

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The 18th century was a wealth of knowledge, exploration and rapidly growing technology and expanding record-keeping made possible by advances in the printing press. In its determination to preserve the century of revolution, Gale initiated a revolution of its own: digitization of epic proportions to preserve these invaluable works in the largest archive of its kind. Now for the first time these high-quality digital copies of original 18th century manuscripts are available in print, making them highly accessible to libraries, undergraduate students, and independent scholars. Delve into what it was like to live during the eighteenth century by reading the first-hand accounts of everyday people, including city dwellers and farmers, businessmen and bankers, artisans and merchants, artists and their patrons, politicians and their constituents. Original texts make the American, French, and Industrial revolutions vividly contemporary. ++++ The below data was compiled from various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to insure edition identification: ++++ British Library T135827 With a half-title. Printers' names from colophon. A reissue of the G. Robinson and C. Elliot first edition of the same year, with a cancel titlepage and reset errata. The errata list in the preliminary gathering begins with an erratum on p.xii. Varian Edinburgh: printed [by Mundell & Wilson] for G. G. J. and J. Robinson, London, and C. Elliot, Edinburgh, 1785. [6], clxv, [1],452p., plates: map; 8°

Enlightenment's Frontier

Author : Fredrik Albritton Jonsson
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 465 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2013-06-18
Category : History
ISBN : 9780300163742

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Enlightenment's Frontier by Fredrik Albritton Jonsson Pdf

DIVEnlightenment’s Frontier is the first book to investigate the environmental roots of the Scottish Enlightenment. What was the place of the natural world in Adam Smith’s famous defense of free trade? Fredrik Albritton Jonsson recovers the forgotten networks of improvers and natural historians that sought to transform the soil, plants, and climate of Scotland in the eighteenth century. The Highlands offered a vast outdoor laboratory for rival liberal and conservative views of nature and society. But when the improvement schemes foundered toward the end of the century, northern Scotland instead became a crucible for anxieties about overpopulation, resource exhaustion, and the physical limits to economic growth. In this way, the rise and fall of the Enlightenment in the Highlands sheds new light on the origins of environmentalism./div

The Church and the Law

Author : R. W. Dale
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 1884
Category : Church and state
ISBN : OXFORD:555063029

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Stepping Westward

Author : Nigel Leask
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2020-02-27
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780192590237

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Stepping Westward is the first book dedicated to the literature of the Scottish Highland tour of 1720-1830, a major cultural phenomenon that attracted writers and artists like Pennant, Johnson and Boswell, William and Dorothy Wordsworth, Coleridge, Scott, Hogg, Keats, Daniell, and Turner, as well as numerous less celebrated travellers and tourists. Addressing more than a century's worth of literary and visual representations of the Highlands, the book casts new light on how the tour developed a modern literature of place, acting as a catalyst for thinking about improvement, landscape, and the shaping of British, Scottish, and Gaelic identities. It pays attention to the relationship between travellers and the native Gaels, whose world was plunged into crisis by rapid and forced social change. At the book's core lie the best-selling tours of Pennant and Dr Johnson, associated with attempts to 'improve' the intractable Gaidhealtachd in the wake of Culloden. Alongside the Ossian craze and Gilpin's picturesque, their books stimulated a wave of 'home tours' from the 1770s through the romantic period, including writing by women like Sarah Murray and Dorothy Wordsworth. The incidence of published Highland Tours (many lavishly illustrated), peaked around 1800, but as the genre reached exhaustion, the 'romantic Highlands' were reinvented in Scott's poems and novels, coinciding with steam boats and mass tourism, but also rack-renting, sheep clearance, and emigration.

Bernard Quaritch

Author : Bernard Quaritch (Firm)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 820 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1884
Category : Antiquarian booksellers
ISBN : OXFORD:555063019

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