Author: Hugh BlairPublisher:
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Languages : en
Pages :
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2 letters from Hugh Blair to John Davidson
Third Duke of Buccleuch and Adam Smith
Author: Brian BonnymanPublisher: Edinburgh University Press
ISBN: 0748694692
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 230
Book Description
The third duke of Buccleuch (17461812) presided over the management of one of Britain's largest landed estates during a period of profound agrarian, social and political change. Tutored by the philosopher Adam Smith, the duke was also a leading patron of the Scottish Enlightenment, lauded by the Edinburgh literati as an exemplar of patriotic nobility and civic virtue, while his alliance with Henry Dundas dominated Scottish politics for almost 40 years. Combining the approaches of intellectual, economic and agrarian history, this book examines the life and career of the third duke, focusing in particular on his relationship with Adam Smith and the improvement of his vast Border estates, assessing the influence of Enlightenment thought on agricultural revolution. In its exploration of the cultural as well as the economic roots of Improvement and in its assessment of a previously unappreciated aspect of Smith's career, this book has appeal for both specialist scholars and general readers interested in the Scottish Enlightenment and the culture of Improvement in 18th-century Scotland.
Letter To the Rev. Hugh Blair, D.D. ...
Author: The Bibliographer's Manual of English Literature, Containing an Account of Rare, Curious, and Useful Books, Published in Or Relating to Great Britain and Ireland, from the Invention of Printing ... and the Prices at which They Have Been Sold in the Present Century
Author: William Thomas LowndesPublisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 352
Book Description
Location Register of English Literary Manuscripts and Letters, Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries: A-J
Author: David C. SuttonPublisher:
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Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 544
Book Description
“The” Bibliographer's Manual of English Literature
Author: William Thomas LowndesPublisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 656
Book Description
Catalogue of Manuscripts Acquired Since 1925: Manuscripts 1801-4000, charters and other formal documents 901-2634
Author: National Library of ScotlandPublisher:
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Category : Manuscripts
Languages : en
Pages : 920
Book Description
The Glasgow Edition of the Works and Correspondence of Adam Smith: VI: Correspondence
Author: Adam SmithPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 9780198285700
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 500
Book Description
In this edition the missing part of one letter and eighteen entirely new ones are presented. The search for these letters even extended to Japan. Therefore, all new Smith letter discovered since 1977 are included. In addition, wherever errors were suspected or misreadings have come to light in the standing text as a result of advice from reviewers and correspondents, these have been corrected.
Family Records of Davison-Davidson, Mullen, Crawford, and Allied Families
Author: Virginia Davidson ChacePublisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 122
Book Description
The Last Generation
Author: Peter S. CarmichaelPublisher: UNC Press Books
ISBN: 146962589X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 360
Book Description
Challenging the popular conception of Southern youth on the eve of the Civil War as intellectually lazy, violent, and dissipated, Peter S. Carmichael looks closely at the lives of more than one hundred young white men from Virginia's last generation to grow up with the institution of slavery. He finds them deeply engaged in the political, economic, and cultural forces of their time. Age, he concludes, created special concerns for young men who spent their formative years in the 1850s. Before the Civil War, these young men thought long and hard about Virginia's place as a progressive slave society. They vigorously lobbied for disunion despite opposition from their elders, then served as officers in the Army of Northern Virginia as frontline negotiators with the nonslaveholding rank and file. After the war, however, they quickly shed their Confederate radicalism to pursue the political goals of home rule and New South economic development and reconciliation. Not until the turn of the century, when these men were nearing the ends of their lives, did the mythmaking and storytelling begin, and members of the last generation recast themselves once more as unreconstructed Rebels. By examining the lives of members of this generation on personal as well as generational and cultural levels, Carmichael sheds new light on the formation and reformation of Southern identity during the turbulent last half of the nineteenth century.