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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Scottish Authors and Their Publishers in Eighteenth-Century Britain, Ireland, and America Richard B. Sher. RICHARD B. SHER is Distinguished Professor of History at the New Jersey Institute of Technology . He is the author of Church and ...
Scottish Authors and Their Publishers in Eighteenth-Century Britain, Ireland, and America Richard B. Sher ... Scottish Enlightenment Designs and Disclaimers PART I. SCOTTISH AUTHORS IN A WORLD OF BOOKS 1. Composing the Scottish ...
... Scottish Enlightenment Publishing The House of Strahan and Cadell Successors and Rivals 6. The Achievement of William Creech The Career of a Bookseller The Reputation of a Bookseller PART III . REPRINTING THE SCOTTISH ENLIGHTENMENT IN ...
... Scots have by and large made the world a better place.”51 Herman is correct to draw attention to the enormous impact of Scots and the Scottish Enlightenment—far beyond what might be ex- pected from a country of Scotland's size or ...
... Scots had invented the modern world . He looked around to make sure they weren't in the fiction section . ' " 53 ... Scots ” ) and concludes that “ the Scottish Enlightenment , therefore , was not as parochially or exclusively Scottish ...
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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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