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• Age of the Passions

  E-Book | Pub: 01 Jan 2001

  £20.00

  The eighteenth century is often described as the age of reason. This book argues that it should also be considered the age of the passions. Eighteenth-century writers recognised the passions as the springs of human life and actions. They began to...

• The Beggar’s Benison

  E-Book | Pub: 04 Apr 2013

  £7.49

  Two clubs, dedicated to proclaiming the joys of libertine sex, thrived in mid and late 18th-century Scotland. The Beggar’s Benison (1732), starting from local roots in Fife, became large and sprawling, with branches in Edinburgh, Glasgow...

• The Edinburgh Skating Club

  Paperback | Pub: 04 Aug 2022

  £9.99

  When you look at a painting, what do you really see? When eighteenth-century poet Alison Cockburn accepts a light-hearted challenge from her friend Katherine Hume to live as a man, in order to infiltrate Edinburgh’s all-male skating club, little...

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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...

• James Hutton

  Hardback | Pub: 01 Sep 2022

  £25.00

  Discover one of the Scottish Enlightenment’s brightest stars. Among the giants of the Scottish Enlightenment, the name of James Hutton is overlooked. Yet his Theory of the Earth revolutionised the way we think about how our planet was formed...

• New Perspectives on the Politics and Culture of Early Modern Scotland

  E-Book | Pub: 01 Dec 2021

  £25.00

  This collection of essays on early modern Scotland offers ‘new perspectives’ on aspects of Scottish history from 1560 to 1800. Some essays challenge accepted interpretations; others explore subjects and sources that have previously not attracted...

• The Origins and Nature of the Scottish Enlightenment

  E-Book | Pub: 24 Nov 2003

  £25.00

  In the first part of the volume are collected six essays which comment on mainly institutional matters: the merchant community, the universities and the study of science and medicine. Two important themes emerge from these studies; firstly the...