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  Between Two Enlightenments

  Hardback | Pub: 02 Sep 2021

  £7.99

  Have we been fooling ourselves? Has the almost complete takeover of culture by the thinking of the eighteenth-century Enlightenment come without a cost? The sequel to the Enlightenment, known as modern life, has expanded our horizons enormously but...

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  Enlightenment Edinburgh

  Paperback | Pub: 27 Jun 2017

  £12.99

  During the 18th century, Edinburgh was the intellectual hub of the Western world. Adam Smith, David Hume, Dugald Stewart and Adam Ferguson delivered their diverse tomes on philosophy and political economy. Others such as James Hutton, Joseph Black,...

• The Glasgow Enlightenment

  Paperback | Pub: 23 Sep 2021

  £25.00

  The Glasgow Enlightenment is widely regarded as the first book to explore the nature and accomplishments of the Enlightenment in eighteenth-century Glasgow in a comprehensive manner. In addition to a general introduction by the editors, there are...

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  Poacher’s Pilgrimage

  Paperback | Pub: 22 Mar 2018

  £12.99 £10.39

  The islands of the Outer Hebrides are home to some of the most remote and spectacular scenery in the world. They host an astonishing range of mysterious structures – stone circles, beehive dwellings, holy wells and ‘temples’ from...

• A Tale of Three Cities

  Hardback | Pub: 15 Oct 2015

  £25.00

  Basil William Douglas, Lord Daer, was a remarkable man who left an indelible impression on those who knew him, including the poet Robert Burns and French intellectual and revolutionary the Marquis de Condorcet. Daer was a restless, energetic spirit...

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  When The Clyde Ran Red

  Paperback | Pub: 08 Mar 2018

  £9.99

  When the Clyde Ran Red paints a vivid picture of the heady days when revolution was in the air on Clydeside. Through the bitter strike at the huge Singer Sewing machine plant in Clydebank in 1911, Bloody Friday in Glasgow’s George Square in 1919,...