Author: George DempsterPublisher:
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Category : English letters
Languages : en
Pages : 414
Book Description
Letters of George Dempster to Sir Adam Fergusson, 1756-1813
Author: George DempsterPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : English letters
Languages : en
Pages : 414
Book Description
Letters of George Dempster to Sir Adam Fergusson 1756-1813, with Some Account of His Life. Ed. by James Fergusson
Author: George DempsterLetters of George Dempster to Sir Adam Fergusson, 1756-1813, with Some Account of His Life. Edited by James Fergusson. [With Plates, Including Portraits.].
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Author: George DEMPSTER (of Dunnichen.)Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 364
Book Description
Letters of George Dempster to Sir Adam Fergusson, 1756-1816. With some account of his life
Author: George DempsterThe Correspondence of Adam Ferguson Vol 1
Author: Vincenzo MerollePublisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1040248039
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 437
Book Description
This Pickering edition of Adam Ferguson's correspondence contains over 400 letters, most of which have never before been published. The correspondence includes letters between Ferguson and Adam Smith, David Hume and Alexander Carlyle and many other central figures of the Scottish Enlightenment.
Letters from America 1773 to 1780
Author: Eric RobsonPublisher: Manchester University Press
ISBN:
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Languages : en
Pages : 126
Book Description
Letters to Sir Adam Fergusson, 1756-1813
Author: George DempsterLetters From America
Author: Sir James PulteneyPublisher: Manchester University Press
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 126
Book Description
The Gentleman Usher
Author: John EvansPublisher: Pen and Sword
ISBN: 1844151514
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 469
Book Description
George Dempster was a giant of a man who became one of the best-known and most deservedly popular Scotsman of his day. He served for thirty years as a Member of Parliament in Westminster and was closely involved with the expansion of British influence and trade across the world particularly in India and North America. This was the age of Empire building and intense rivalry between competing imperial powers, which led to protracted warfare. A lawyer by training, Dempster was at the heart of political and business life and his circle of friends was large and powerful. Yet power did not corrupt him and he was respected by allies and opponents alike, being known as 'Honest George'. Laird of estates at Skibo in Sutherland and Dunnichen in Angus, Dempster's energy was legendary and he used his talents as reformer, innovator, entrepreneur and developer to bring prosperity and jobs to disadvantaged regions of his beloved Scotland. Dempster was more than an observer of history; he made it. This highly detailed biography of a major but hitherto little known figure of the period gives a rare insight into the political life of the Georgian era, covering the growth of British rule in India, loss of North America during the War of Independence and the years of constant conflict with France. The Gentleman Usher, this superbly researched work with its copious illustrations, is an important and authoritative addition to the bibliography of Scottish history of the period.
The Power of Objects in Eighteenth-Century British America
Author: Jennifer Van HornPublisher: UNC Press Books
ISBN: 1469629577
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 457
Book Description
Over the course of the eighteenth century, Anglo-Americans purchased an unprecedented number and array of goods. The Power of Objects in Eighteenth-Century British America investigates these diverse artifacts—from portraits and city views to gravestones, dressing furniture, and prosthetic devices—to explore how elite American consumers assembled objects to form a new civil society on the margins of the British Empire. In this interdisciplinary transatlantic study, artifacts emerge as key players in the formation of Anglo-American communities and eventually of American citizenship. Deftly interweaving analysis of images with furniture, architecture, clothing, and literary works, Van Horn reconstructs the networks of goods that bound together consumers in Boston, New York, Philadelphia, and Charleston. Moving beyond emulation and the desire for social status as the primary motivators for consumption, Van Horn shows that Anglo-Americans' material choices were intimately bound up with their efforts to distance themselves from Native Americans and African Americans. She also traces women's contested place in forging provincial culture. As encountered through a woman's application of makeup at her dressing table or an amputee's donning of a wooden leg after the Revolutionary War, material artifacts were far from passive markers of rank or political identification. They made Anglo-American society.