The Enlightenment and the Book: Scottish Authors and Their Publishers in Eighteenth-Century Britain, Ireland, and AmericaUniversity of Chicago Press, 15 sep 2008 - 842 pagina's 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. |
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... English literature - Scottish authors - publishing . 3. Publishers and publishing Great Britain — History -18th century . 4. Publishers and publishing— Ireland - History - 18th century . 5. Publishers and publishing United States ...
... English Short - Title Catalogue ( ESTC ) , which was made possible by Rutgers University . I owe that affiliation , along with much else , to the Federated History Department of Rutgers– Newark and New Jersey Institute of Technology ...
... shilling ( 1s . ) = 12 pence ( 12d . ) 1 pound ( £ 1 ) = 20 shillings ( 20s . ) 1 guinea = 21 shillings ( 21s . , or £ 1.1s . ) Nevertheless, there were differences in value between the English pound xxiv Author's Note •
... English metropolis . But how well does such a local , metropoli- tan approach hold up during the late eighteenth century , when there were other centers of learned printing and publishing in Great Britain and the English - language ...
... English ; Suarez and Turner , Cambridge History of the Book in Britain , vol . 5 , which has an English emphasis ; Brown and Mc- Dougall , Edinburgh History of the Book in Scotland , vol . 2 ; and Gross and Kelley , Ex- tensive Republic ...
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Part II Publishing the Scottish Enlightenment in London and Edinburgh | 263 |
Part III Reprinting the Scottish Enlightenment in Dublin and Philadelphia | 441 |
Tables | 611 |
Bibliography | 709 |
Index | 757 |
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