Association and Enlightenment - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Association and Enlightenment write by Mark C. Wallace. This book was released on 2020-12-18. Association and Enlightenment available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Social clubs as they existed in eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century Scotland were varied: they could be convivial, sporting, or scholarly, or they could be a significant and dynamic social force, committed to improvement and national regeneration as well as to sociability. The essays in this volume examine the complex history of clubs and societies in Scotland from 1700 to 1830. Contributors address attitudes toward associations, their meeting places and rituals, their links with the growth of the professions and with literary culture, and the ways in which they were structured by both class and gender. By widening the context in which clubs and societies are set, the collection offers a new framework for understanding them, bringing together the inheritance of the Scottish past, the unique and cohesive polite culture of the Scottish Enlightenment, and the broader context of associational patterns common to Britain, Ireland, and beyond.
Association and Enlightenment
Association and Enlightenment - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Association and Enlightenment write by Mark C. Wallace. This book was released on 2020. Association and Enlightenment available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
The Enlightenment and the Book
The Enlightenment and the Book - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Enlightenment and the Book write by Richard B. Sher. This book was released on 2008-09-15. The Enlightenment and the Book available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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. In this magisterial history, Richard B. Sher breaks new ground for our understanding of the Enlightenment and the forgotten role of publishing during that period. The Enlightenment and the Book seeks to remedy the common misperception that such classics as The Wealth of Nations and The Life of Samuel Johnson were written by authors who eyed their publishers as minor functionaries in their profession. To the contrary, Sher shows how the process of bookmaking during the late eighteenth-century involved a deeply complex partnership between authors and their publishers, one in which writers saw the book industry not only as pivotal in the dissemination of their ideas, but also as crucial to their dreams of fame and monetary gain. Similarly, Sher demonstrates that publishers were involved in the project of bookmaking in order to advance human knowledge as well as to accumulate profits. The Enlightenment and the Book explores this tension between creativity and commerce that still exists in scholarly publishing today. Lavishly illustrated and elegantly conceived, it will be must reading for anyone interested in the history of the book or the production and diffusion of Enlightenment thought.
The Society for Useful Knowledge
The Society for Useful Knowledge - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Society for Useful Knowledge write by Jonathan Lyons. This book was released on 2014-06-10. The Society for Useful Knowledge available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A spellbinding, rich history of the American Enlightenment-think 1776 meets The Metaphysical Club.
The Scottish Enlightenment and the French Revolution
The Scottish Enlightenment and the French Revolution - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Scottish Enlightenment and the French Revolution write by Anna Plassart. This book was released on 2015-05-12. The Scottish Enlightenment and the French Revolution available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Historians of ideas have traditionally discussed the significance of the French Revolution through the prism of several major interpretations, including the commentaries of Burke, Tocqueville and Marx. This book argues that the Scottish Enlightenment offered an alternative and equally powerful interpretative framework for the Revolution, which focused on the transformation of the polite, civilised moeurs that had defined the 'modernity' analysed by Hume and Smith in the eighteenth century. The Scots observed what they understood as a military- and democracy-led transformation of European modern morals and concluded that the real historical significance of the Revolution lay in the transformation of warfare, national feelings and relations between states, war and commerce that characterised the post-revolutionary international order. This book recovers the Scottish philosophers' powerful discussion of the nature of post-revolutionary modernity and shows that it is essential to our understanding of nineteenth-century political thought.
