Jacobitism, Enlightenment and Empire, 1680-1820
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Group
Published: 2014
Language: eng
Number of pages: 304
ISBN-13: 9781848934665
Subjects: Enlightenment; Scotland, history; Scotland, commerce; Scotland, church history
Description: The essays in this collection examine religion, politics and commerce in Scotland during a time of crisis and turmoil. Contributors look at the effect of the Union on Scottish trade and commerce, the Scottish role in tobacco and sugar plantations, Robert Burns's early poetry on his planned emigration to Jamaica and Scottish anti-abolitionists.