Improvement and Enlightenment : proceedings of the Scottish Historical Studies Seminar, University of Strathclyde, 1987-88 /

Improvement and Enlightenment : proceedings of the Scottish Historical Studies Seminar, University of Strathclyde, 1987-88 /

Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author: Scottish Historical Studies Seminar University of Strathclyde
Other Authors: Devine, T. M. (Thomas Martin)
Format: Conference Proceeding Book
Language:English
Published: Edinburgh : J. Donald, [1989]
Subjects:
Enlightenment > Scotland > Congresses.
Social classes > Scotland > History > Congresses.
Architecture, Scottish > History > Congresses.
Land tenure > Scotland > History > Congresses.
Scotland > Social conditions > Congresses.
Table of Contents:
  • Problems of nationalism, identity, and improvement in later eighteenth-century Scotland / T.C. Smouth
  • James Boswell / Andrew Noble
  • Scottish education and literacy, 1600-1800 / R.A. Houston
  • Webster revisited / Rosalind Mitchison
  • Class and classification in the buildings of the late Scottish Enlightenment / Thomas A. Markus
  • The emergence of the new elite in the Western Highlands and Islands, 1800-60 / T.M. Devine
  • Appendix, Purchasers of estates in the Western Highlands and Islands.