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Enlightenment and Change : Scotland 1746-1832 / Bruce Lenman.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: New History of Scotland : NHSPublisher: Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2022]Copyright date: ©2009Description: 1 online resource (288 p.)Content type:
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  • 9780748625147
  • 9780748630790
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  • 941.107 22
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  • online - DeGruyter
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- 1. Scotland on the Eve of the Agricultural and Industrial Revolutions -- 2. The Age of Islay 1746–1761 -- 3. Integration and Expansion 1760–1775 -- 4. Scotland and the American Revolution 1775–1784 -- 5. The First Phase of the Dundas Ascendancy 1784–1793 -- 6. The Melvilles and their System under the Pressures of War 1793–1815 -- 7. Change: The Underlying Time Bomb 1790–1815 -- 8. The Last Hurrahs of the Old Regime 1815–1827 -- 9. Meltdown and Reconfiguration 1827–1832 -- Conclusion: Enlightened Change? -- Selected Further Reading -- Appendix: Chronological Table -- Index
Summary: The period from the Jacobite rebellion (1745) to the Scottish Reform Act (1832) saw the rise of some of the most influential thinkers of the contemporary world. Bruce Lenman provides a compact survey of developments in Enlightenment Scotland.The Reform Act spelled the end of political and social systems that had presided over industrial and agricultural revolutions turning Scotland from a rural society to one of the most urbanised and industrialised of European nations. Scotland also moved from being simply an active participant in the cultural life of western Europe to being a leader in a new, more expansive, Atlantic and European world where the ideas of its great Enlightenment thinkers circulated from Moscow to Philadelphia.The political framework for changes was the Union of 1707 which incorporated Scotland into the United Kingdom of Great Britain, and after 1800 Great Britain and Ireland. However, within the UK a distinctive political system run for most of this period by either the Dukes of Argyll or the so-called 'Dundas Despotism' dominated Scotland. This volume studies how that system first stimulated and exploited cultural and economic change and then was finally destroyed by it.This book is a revised and expanded edition of Integration and Enlightenment (Edinburgh University Press, 1993).Key Features:*discusses agricultural and industrial revolutions*considers Scottish urbanisation*examines the impact of mass migration and the Highland Clearances on Gaelic society*assesses the development of the Enlightenment thought through influential figures such as economist Adam Smith, philosopher David Hume, artist Henry Raeburn and architects the Adam brothers.
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- 1. Scotland on the Eve of the Agricultural and Industrial Revolutions -- 2. The Age of Islay 1746–1761 -- 3. Integration and Expansion 1760–1775 -- 4. Scotland and the American Revolution 1775–1784 -- 5. The First Phase of the Dundas Ascendancy 1784–1793 -- 6. The Melvilles and their System under the Pressures of War 1793–1815 -- 7. Change: The Underlying Time Bomb 1790–1815 -- 8. The Last Hurrahs of the Old Regime 1815–1827 -- 9. Meltdown and Reconfiguration 1827–1832 -- Conclusion: Enlightened Change? -- Selected Further Reading -- Appendix: Chronological Table -- Index

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The period from the Jacobite rebellion (1745) to the Scottish Reform Act (1832) saw the rise of some of the most influential thinkers of the contemporary world. Bruce Lenman provides a compact survey of developments in Enlightenment Scotland.The Reform Act spelled the end of political and social systems that had presided over industrial and agricultural revolutions turning Scotland from a rural society to one of the most urbanised and industrialised of European nations. Scotland also moved from being simply an active participant in the cultural life of western Europe to being a leader in a new, more expansive, Atlantic and European world where the ideas of its great Enlightenment thinkers circulated from Moscow to Philadelphia.The political framework for changes was the Union of 1707 which incorporated Scotland into the United Kingdom of Great Britain, and after 1800 Great Britain and Ireland. However, within the UK a distinctive political system run for most of this period by either the Dukes of Argyll or the so-called 'Dundas Despotism' dominated Scotland. This volume studies how that system first stimulated and exploited cultural and economic change and then was finally destroyed by it.This book is a revised and expanded edition of Integration and Enlightenment (Edinburgh University Press, 1993).Key Features:*discusses agricultural and industrial revolutions*considers Scottish urbanisation*examines the impact of mass migration and the Highland Clearances on Gaelic society*assesses the development of the Enlightenment thought through influential figures such as economist Adam Smith, philosopher David Hume, artist Henry Raeburn and architects the Adam brothers.

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