Improvement and Enlightenment
Subtitle: proceedings of the Scottish Historical Studies Seminar, University of Strathclyde, 1987-88
By: edited by T.M. Devine.
Contributors: Devine, T. M.
Publisher: J. Donald
Published: 1989
Place of publication: Edinburgh
Language: eng
Number of pages: 146
Subjects: Enlightenment -- Scotland -- Congresses.; Social classes -- Scotland -- History -- Congresses.; Architecture -- Scotland -- History -- Congresses.; Land tenure -- Scotland -- History -- Congresses.; Scotland -- Social conditions -- Congresses.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Problems of nationalism, identity, and improvement in later eighteenth-century Scotland / T.C. Smouth; title: James Boswell / Andrew Noble; title: Scottish education and literacy, 1600-1800 / R.A. Houston; title: Webster revisited / Rosalind Mitchison; title: Class and classification in the buildings of the late Scottish Enlightenment / Thomas A. Markus; title: The emergence of the new elite in the Western Highlands and Islands, 1800-60 / T.M. Devine; title: Appendix, Purchasers of estates in the Western Highlands and Islands.