1st Edition

Scotland in the Eighteenth Century Union and Enlightenment

By David Allan Copyright 2002
228 Pages
by Routledge

228 Pages
by Routledge

228 Pages
by Routledge

This is an introduction to Scottish history in the 18th which is completely up-to-date and gives equal emphasis to politics and religion. Once a small and isolated country with an unenviable reputation for poverty and instability, by 1800 Scotland it was emerging as an economic powerhouse, a major colonial power and an internationally acclaimed center of European philosophy, science and... Read more
1. Nation. 2. Belief. 3. Lives. 4. Ideas. 5. Empire. 6. Endings.

Biography

David Allan teaches Scottish history at the University of St Andrews.