Reading the Scottish Enlightenment : books and their readers in provincial Scotland, 1750-1820 / by Towsey, Mark R. M.

Table of Contents: “…Enlightenment Everywhere": Locating the Reader in the Scottish Enlightenment; Part One Encountering Enlightenment; I." …”
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Adam Ferguson in the Scottish enlightenment : the Roman past and Europe's future / by McDaniel, Iain, 1975-

Table of Contents: “…Montesquieu and the unfree republic -- Military government and empire in the Scottish enlightenment -- Ferguson and the moral foundations of civil society -- Trajectories of the modern commercial state -- Britain's future in a Roman mirror -- Civil-military union and the modern state -- Revolution and modern republicanism.…”
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Adam Ferguson in the Scottish enlightenment : the Roman past and Europe's future / by McDaniel, Iain, 1975-

Table of Contents: “…Montesquieu and the unfree republic -- Military government and empire in the Scottish enlightenment -- Ferguson and the moral foundations of civil society -- Trajectories of the modern commercial state -- Britain's future in a Roman mirror -- Civil-military union and the modern state -- Revolution and modern republicanism.…”
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The Scottish enlightenment and literary culture /

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Natural rights on the threshold of the Scottish enlightenment : the writings of Gershom Carmichael / by Carmichael, Gershom, 1672-1729

Table of Contents: “…Gershom Carmichael, Natural Rights on the Threshold of the Scottish Enlightenment -- Front Matter -- Title Page -- Copyright Details -- Table of Contents, p. v -- Foreword, p. ix -- Acknowledgments, p. xvii -- I. …”
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The idea of commercial society in the Scottish enlightenment / by Berry, Christopher J.

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Deleuze's Hume : philosophy, culture and the Scottish Enlightenment / by Bell, Jeffrey A.

Table of Contents: “…Staging the Mind: From Multiplicity to Belief -- Becoming Who We Are -- The Time of our Life: Historical Ontology and Creative Events -- Becoming Civil: History and the Discipline of Institutions -- Creating Culture: The Case of the Scottish Enlightenment -- Beyond Belief: Deleuze's Hume and the Fear of Politics.…”
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Literature after Euclid : the geometric imagination in the long Scottish Enlightenment / by Wickman, Matthew

Table of Contents: “…LOCUS: MEASURING THE SCOTTISH ENLIGHTENMENT ACROSS HISTORY; Chapter 5. The Newtonian Turn/Turning from Newton: James Thomson's Poetic Calculus; Chapter 6. …”
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Essays on David Hume, medical men and the Scottish Enlightenment : industry, knowledge and humanity / by Emerson, Roger L.

Table of Contents: “…The world in which the Scottish Enlightenment took shape -- Archibald Campbell, 3rd Duke of Argyll (1682-1761) : patronage and the creation of the Scottish Enlightenment -- How many Scots were enlightened? …”
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Highland shepherd : James MacGregor, father of the Scottish enlightenment in Nova Scotia / by Wilson, Alan, 1927-

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Medicine-by-post : the changing voice of illness in eighteenth-century British consultation letters and literature by Wild, Wayne

Table of Contents: “…William Cullen : Scottish enlightenment and new directions in medicine-by-post --…”

Scotland and the borders of romanticism

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Beyond the Revolution : a history of American thought from Paine to pragmatism by Goetzmann, William H.

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Liberty, property and popular politics : England and Scotland, 1688-1815 : essays in honour of H.T. Dickinson

Table of Contents: “…"The wisest and most beneficial schemes:" William Ogilvie, radical political economy and the Scottish Enlightenment /…”
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1650-1850 : ideas, aesthetics, and inquiries in the Early Modern era

Table of Contents: “…Berry, The Idea of Commercial Society in the Scottish Enlightenment --…”
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The Enlightenment and the Book : Scottish Authors and Their Publishers in Eighteenth-Century Britain, Ireland, and America. by Sher, Richard B.

Table of Contents: “…Composing the Scottish Enlightenment; 2. Identity and Diversity among Scottish Authors; 3. …”
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Gender and Enlightenment culture in eighteenth-century Scotland by Carr, Rosalind

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Scotland's books : a history of Scottish literature by Crawford, Robert, 1959-

Table of Contents: “…Praise -- Liberty -- Reformation -- The staggering state -- Ever green -- The Scottish enlightenment -- The age of Burns -- Volcano, wizard, bankrupt, spy -- Scotland and London -- Renaissance -- Hard-wearing flowers -- Globalization and a Smirr of rain.…”
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The Poetic Enlightenment : Poetry and Human Science, 1650-1820. by Boyson, Rowan

Table of Contents: “…9 Morality as a Discourse of the ImaginationIII Enlightenment and Romantic Poetologies; 10 Introduction: Poetry and/or Enlightenment; 11 James Thomson's The Seasons and the Transformative Potential of Poetry in the Early Scottish Enlightenment; 12 'Furnishing Light': Wordsworth, Poetry and the Science of Man in Enlightenment Scotland; 13 Wordsworth, Kant, Fanaticism and Humanity; Notes; Index.…”
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Observations upon liberal education by Turnbull, George, 1698-1748

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The Enlightenment's Animals : Changing Conceptions of Animals in the Long Eighteenth Century. by Wolloch, Nathaniel

Table of Contents: “…John Gregory and Scottish Enlightenment Views of Animals; 7. Buffon, Crèvecoeur, and the Limits of Enlightenment Sensitivity to Animal Suffering…”
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History and the Enlightenment by Trevor-Roper, H. R. (Hugh Redwald), 1914-2003

Table of Contents: “…The historical philosophy of the Enlightenment -- The Scottish Enlightenment -- Pietro Giannone and Great Britain -- Dimitrie Cantemir's Ottoman history and its reception in England -- From deism to history: Conyers Middleton -- David Hume, historian -- The idea of the decline and fall of the Roman Empire -- Gibbon and the publication of the Decline and fall of the Roman Empire 1776-1976 -- Gibbon's last project -- The romantic movement and the study of history -- Lord Macaulay: the history of England -- Thomas Carlyle's historical philosophy -- Jacob Burckhardt.…”
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The Scots in South Africa : ethnicity, identity, gender and race, 1772-1914 by MacKenzie, John M. (John MacDonald), 1943-

Table of Contents: “…Radicals, evangelicals, the Scottish Enlightenment and Cape Colonial autocracy; 4. Scots missions and the frontier; 5. …”
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Intellectual politics and cultural conflict in the romantic period : Scottish Whigs, English radicals and the making of the British public sphere by Benchimol, Alex

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : new sites of cultural conflict in the Romantic period -- Cultural theory and the Habermasian public sphere -- Cultural leadership in 'North Britain' and the making of the Scottish Enlightenment public sphere -- Formations of popular English cultural politics and the making of the radical plebeian public sphere -- Scottish philosophic Whiggism and Romantic cultural critique : post-Enlightenment intellectual politics in the Edinburgh review -- Radical Englishness in the Romantic period : intellectual leadership and popular cultural resistance in the plebeian public sphere -- Afterword : national cultural history, cultural studies, and the Romantic public sphere.…”
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Ballad collection, lyric, and the canon : the call of the popular from the Restoration to the New Criticism by Newman, Steve, 1970-

Table of Contents: “…Why there no poetic justice in The beggar's opera : ballad, lyric, and the semiautonomy of culture -- Scots songs in the Scottish Enlightenment : pastoral, progress, and the lyric split in Allan Ramsay, John Home, and Robert Burns -- Addressing the problem of a lyric history : collecting Shakespeare's songs/Shakespeare as song collector -- Ballads and the problem of lyric violence in Blake and Wordsworth -- Reading as remembering and the subject of lyric : child ballads, children's ballads, and the New Criticism.…”
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Ballad collection, lyric, and the canon : the call of the popular from the Restoration to the New Criticism by Newman, Steve, 1970-

Table of Contents: “…Why there no poetic justice in The beggar's opera : ballad, lyric, and the semiautonomy of culture -- Scots songs in the Scottish Enlightenment : pastoral, progress, and the lyric split in Allan Ramsay, John Home, and Robert Burns -- Addressing the problem of a lyric history : collecting Shakespeare's songs/Shakespeare as song collector -- Ballads and the problem of lyric violence in Blake and Wordsworth -- Reading as remembering and the subject of lyric : child ballads, children's ballads, and the New Criticism.…”
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Medicine-by-post : the changing voice of illness in eighteenth-century British consulation letters and literature by Wild, Wayne

Table of Contents: “…The Correspondence of Dr William Cullen: Scottish Enlightenment and New Directions in Medicine-by-Post; 5. …”
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Savages within the empire : representations of American Indians in eighteenth-century Britain by Bickham, Troy O.

Table of Contents: “…Encountering American Indians in Britain: visits and virtual journeys -- American Indians in the British press -- Lessons from a decade of conflict and the formation of a new imperial regime -- The new imperial regime at work -- 'Under the rudest form in which we can conceive man to subsist': the Scottish enlightenment and the North American Indians -- Empire through evangelization: the society for the propagation of the Gospel and the American Indians -- American Indians and Britain's American War of Independence.…”
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Savages within the empire : representations of American Indians in eighteenth-century Britain by Bickham, Troy O.

Table of Contents: “…Encountering American Indians in Britain: visits and virtual journeys -- American Indians in the British press -- Lessons from a decade of conflict and the formation of a new imperial regime -- The new imperial regime at work -- 'Under the rudest form in which we can conceive man to subsist': the Scottish enlightenment and the North American Indians -- Empire through evangelization: the society for the propagation of the Gospel and the American Indians -- American Indians and Britain's American War of Independence.…”
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Disrupted Dialogue : Medical Ethics and the Collapse of Physician-Humanist Communication (1770-1980). by Veatch, Robert M.

Table of Contents: “…Medical Ethics in The Scottish Enlightenment -- Background of The Scottish Enlightenment -- Camaraderie Between Medicine and the Humanities -- 2. …”
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Globalisation, culture and social capital : library professionals on the move

Table of Contents: “…Cover; CONTENTS; EDITORIAL ADVISORY BOARD; Globalisation, culture and social capital: library professionals on the move; Moving on: transferability of library managers to new environments; Working across cultures; Managing libraries overseas: some challenges and opportunities; Managing across cultures: the experiences of three Hong Kong academic library directors; A Scottish enlightenment; The expatriate library director; Transplanting a Director of Libraries: the pitfalls and the pleasures; Consulting across cultures: librarians and project management in Vietnam.…”
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Adam Smith, radical and egalitarian : an interpretation for the twenty-first century by McLean, Iain

Table of Contents: “…Gordon Brown; A Note on Citations; Preface: A Scotsman Looks at the World; 1 The Life of an Absent-minded Professor; 2 A Weak State and a Weak Church; 3 A Non-religious Grounding of Morals: Smith and the Scottish Enlightenment; 4 Merriment and Diversion: Smith on Public Finance and Public Choice; 5 The Invisible Hand and the Helping Hand; 6 The French and American Smiths; 7 Adam Smith Today; Appendix; Notes on Further Reading; References; Index…”
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Imagining the Cape Colony : history, literature, and the South African nation by Johnson, David, 1962 May 20-

Table of Contents: “…Remembering the Khoikhoi victory over Dom Francisco de Almeida at the Cape in 1510 : Luís de Camões and Robert Southey -- French representations of the Cape 'Hottentots' : Jean Tavernier, Jean-Jacques Rousseau and François Levaillant -- The Scottish enlightenment and colonial governance : Adam Smith, John Bruce and Lady Anne Barnard -- African land for the American empire : John Adams, Benjamin Stout and Robert Semple -- Historical and literary reiterations of Dutch settler Republicanism -- Literature and Cape slavery -- History and the Griqua nation : Andries Waterboer and Hendrick Hendricks.…”
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The mechanics of passions : brain, behaviour, and society by Ehrenberg, Alain

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: The New Science of Human Behaviour -- Exemplary Brains: From the Misfortunes of the Practical Subject to the Heroism of Hidden Potential -- Scientific Method and Individualist Ideals: Converting Passions, from the Scottish Enlightenment to New Individualism -- The Brain-as-Individual, a Physiology of Autonomy -- Social Neuroscience, or How the Individual Acts with Others -- Exercises in Autonomy: Individualist Rituals to Reconstruct One's Moral Being? …”
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Scotland and the abolition of black slavery, 1756-1838 by Whyte, Iain

Table of Contents: “…Cover -- COVER -- CONTENTS -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- ABBREVIATIONS -- FIGURES -- FOREWORD -- INTRODUCTION -- 1 BLACK SLAVES IN SCOTLAND AND BAPTISM -- 2 THE LORDS AND THE PROFITS -- WEST INDIAN COMMERCE AND THE SCOTTISH ENLIGHTENMENT -- 3 PULPITS, PRESBYTERIES AND PETITIONS ON THE TRADE -- 4 LONDON SCOTS IN THE MOVEMENT FOR ABOLITION -- 5 UNFINISHED BUSINESS IN EUROPE AND SCOTS COUNTERVOICES ON EMANCIPATION -- 6 COMING OUT OF SIN -- THE ROAD FROM MITIGATION TO THE CALL FOR IMMEDIATE ABOLITION -- 7 EVANGELISM IN JAMAICA, THEOLOGY IN SCOTLAND, BUT FREEDOM DEFERRED -- 8 EYES ON THE PRIZE -- FOCUS, FAITH AND FERVOUR -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX -- Last Page.…”
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The International Companion to James Macpherson and the Poems of Ossian by Moore, Dafydd

Table of Contents: “…Ossian and the State of Translation in the Scottish Enlightenment -- 4. Nostalgic Ossian and the Transcreation of the Scottish Nation -- 5. …”
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Law, Rights and Ideology in Russia : Landmarks in the Destiny of a Great Power. by Bowring, Bill

Table of Contents: “…Theorising Russia's ideological history; 2. The Scottish Enlightenment in the Russian Empire; 3. The 1850s and 1860s in Russia: revolutionary situation or great reforms?…”
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John Galt : observations and conjectures on literature, history, and society

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Walter Scott and the Limits of Language by Lumsden, Alison

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Walter Scott and the Limits of Language by Lumsden, Alison

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