Author: George DempsterPublisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 364
Book Description
Letters to Sir Adam Fergusson, 1756-1813
Author: George DempsterLetters of George Dempster to Sir Adam Fergusson, 1756-1813
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, 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 from America 1773 to 1780
Author: Eric RobsonPublisher: Manchester University Press
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 126
Book Description
The 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
Author: Sir James PulteneyPublisher: Manchester University Press
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 126
Book Description
Scotland's Pariah
Author: Patrick O'FlahertyPublisher: University of Toronto Press
ISBN: 1442619880
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 328
Book Description
Scotland’s Pariah is the first book to examine the remarkable life of John Pinkerton: antiquarian, poet, forger, cartographer, historian, serial adulterer, bigamist, and religious skeptic. A pugnacious and persistent man of letters who knew and was admired by literary masters such as Edward Gibbon, Horace Walpole, and William Godwin, Pinkerton’s life was full of personal and professional misadventures. Patrick O’Flaherty’s biography presents an engrossing account of Pinkerton’s life and works from his early years in Scotland to his Parisian exile, covering his major editorial, antiquarian, and geographic works. Examining Pinkerton’s involvement in the London literary scene, his conflicted relationship with the rise of Celtic nationalism, and his response to early literary romanticism, Scotland’s Pariah is a shrewd and compassionate evaluation of an astonishing literary life.
The Flawed Genius of William Playfair
Author: David R. BellhousePublisher: University of Toronto Press
ISBN: 1487545045
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 297
Book Description
A product of the Scottish Enlightenment, William Playfair (1759–1823) worked as a statistician, economist, engineer, banker, land speculator, scam artist, and political propagandist. It has been claimed – erroneously – that Playfair was a spy for the British government and ran a forging operation to print the paper money of the French Revolution. The Flawed Genius of William Playfair offers a complete account of Playfair’s life, richly contextualized in the economic, political, and cultural history of the French Revolution and Napoleonic Wars. The book explores the many peaks and troughs of Playfair’s career, ranging from moderate prosperity to bankruptcy and imprisonment. Through careful analysis, David R. Bellhouse shows that Playfair was neither a spy nor a forger, but perhaps briefly a one-time courier for a government minister. Bellhouse pieces together as complete a picture as possible of the forging operations supported by the British government and illuminates Playfair’s lasting contributions in economics and statistics, where he is known as the father of statistical graphics. Disputing the misinformation about the man, The Flawed Genius of William Playfair highlights that the truth about Playfair’s life is often more intriguing than the fictions that surround him.
A History of the Highland Clearances
Author: Eric RichardsPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1000082431
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 442
Book Description
First published in 1985, A History of the Highland Clearances: Volume 2 explores the various types of communal and intellectual responses, contemporary and retrospective, to the experience of the clearances. The first section considers the legacy of the two hundred years’ debate about the Highland problem and the place of the clearances therein. The second section assesses the scale, range and timing of the emigrations of the Highlanders, as well as some of the motivations. The third section contemplates the direct popular response to the clearances, the collective memory and the tradition of physical resistance. The fourth section is about the career, trial and reputation of Patrick Sellar, which together embodied much of the social history, ruling ideas, and the necessary mythology of the clearances. The final section considers the fundamental economic problem of the Highlands in the age of the clearances, and the moral and economic alternatives that faced the community, the landlords, and the nation.