Download or read book Adam Ferguson History Progress and Human Nature written by Eugene Heath and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-09-30 with total page 293 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Unique among the leading figures of the Scottish Enlightenment, Ferguson saw two eighteenth-century revolutions, the American and the French. This monograph contains essays that range across all of Ferguson's works to investigate his engagement with contemporary events and his contributions to our understanding of history and human action.
Download or read book The Correspondence of Adam Ferguson Vol 1 written by Vincenzo Merolle and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2024-10-28 with total page 437 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book A Higher World written by Michael Fry and published by Birlinn. This book was released on 2014-11-01 with total page 430 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This new and compelling history of eighteenth-century Scotland paints a rich and detailed portrait of the country at a time when it was of truly global significance. This journey from the Union of 1707 to its centenary and beyond takes in vivid scenes from all over the country, and ranges up and down the social scale from peeresses to prostitutes, from lairds to lunatics, and covers every major aspect of national life from agriculture to philosophy. Whilst most other Scottish histories published in recent times concentrate on social and economic history, Michael Fry demonstrates that any true understanding of the nation, in the past as in the present, needs to pay at least as much attention to politics and culture. The social and the economic history show us how Scotland was integrated into Britain, whilst the political history and the cultural history show us why the integration was never complete. In this book both sides are surveyed, offering new perspectives on Scotland's experience within the Union.
Download or read book The Correspondence of Adam Ferguson Vol 2 written by Vincenzo Merolle and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2024-10-28 with total page 387 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book War Power Police Power written by Mark Neocleous and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2014-02-12 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why is liberalism so obsessed with waste? Is there a drone above you now? Are you living in a no-fly zone? What is the role of masculinity in the 'war on terror'? And why do so many liberals profess a love of peace while finding new ways to justify slaughter in the name of 'peace and security'? In this, the first book to deal with the concepts of war power and police power together, Mark Neocleous deals with these questions and many more by radically rethinking the relationship between war power and police power.
Download or read book Earth Sciences History written by and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book American Book Publishing Record written by and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 1328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The British National Bibliography written by Arthur James Wells and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 1450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Cambridge History of Eighteenth century Philosophy written by Knud Haakonssen and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 790 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This two-volume set presents a comprehensive and up-to-date history of eighteenth-century philosophy. The subject is treated systematically by topic, not by individual thinker, school, or movement, thus enabling a much more historically nuanced picture of the period to be painted.
Download or read book The Playfair Collection and the Teaching of Chemistry at the University of Edinburgh 1713 1858 written by R G W Anderson and published by BRILL. This book was released on 1978 with total page 183 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Manuscripts of Adam Ferguson written by Robin C Dix and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-08-26 with total page 674 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume contains a newly-edited cache of over 30 manuscript essays on a diverse range of topics and descriptions.
Download or read book The New Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature Volume 2 1660 1800 written by George Watson and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1971-07-02 with total page 1698 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: More than fifty specialists have contributed to this new edition of volume 2 of The Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature. The design of the original work has established itself so firmly as a workable solution to the immense problems of analysis, articulation and coordination that it has been retained in all its essentials for the new edition. The task of the new contributors has been to revise and integrate the lists of 1940 and 1957, to add materials of the following decade, to correct and refine the bibliographical details already available, and to re-shape the whole according to a new series of conventions devised to give greater clarity and consistency to the entries.
Download or read book A Catalogue of Books Belonging to the Lower Hall of the Central Department written by Boston Public Library and published by . This book was released on 1873 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Catalogue of Books Belonging to the Lower Hall of the Central Department in the Classes of History Biography and Travel Etc 2 Ed written by BOSTON, Massachusetts. Public Library and published by . This book was released on 1873 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Anonyms written by William Cushing and published by Georg Olms Verlag AG. This book was released on 1890 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book J M W Turner and the Subject of History written by Leo Costello and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-07-05 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: J.M.W. Turner and the Subject of History is an in-depth consideration of the artist's complex response to the challenge of creating history paintings in the early nineteenth century. Structured around the linked themes of making and unmaking, of creation and destruction, this book examines how Turner's history paintings reveal changing notions of individual and collective identity at a time when the British Empire was simultaneously developing and fragmenting. Turner similarly emerges as a conflicted subject, one whose artistic modernism emerged out of a desire to both continue and exceed his eighteenth-century aesthetic background by responding to the altered political and historical circumstances of the nineteenth century.
Download or read book An Anxious Pursuit written by Joyce E. Chaplin and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2012-12-01 with total page 430 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In An Anxious Pursuit, Joyce Chaplin examines the impact of the Enlightenment ideas of progress on the lives and minds of American planters in the colonial Lower South. She focuses particularly on the influence of Scottish notions of progress, tracing the extent to which planters in South Carolina, Georgia, and British East Florida perceived themselves as a modern, improving people. She reads developments in agricultural practice as indices of planters' desire for progress, and she demonstrates the central role played by slavery in their pursuit of modern life. By linking behavior and ideas, Chaplin has produced a work of cultural history that unites intellectual, social, and economic history. Using public records as well as planters' and farmers' private papers, Chaplin examines innovations in rice, indigo, and cotton cultivation as a window through which to see planters' pursuit of a modern future. She demonstrates that planters actively sought to improve their society and economy even as they suffered a pervasive anxiety about the corrupting impact of progress and commerce. The basis for their accomplishments and the root of their anxieties, according the Chaplin, were the same: race-based chattel slavery. Slaves provied the labor necessary to attain planters' vision of the modern, but the institution ultimately limited the Lower South's ability to compete in the contemporary world. Indeed, whites continued to wonder whether their innovations, some of them defied by slaves, truly improved the region. Chaplin argues that these apprehensions prefigured the antimodern stance of the antebellum period, but she contends that they were as much a reflection of the doubt inherent in theories of progress as an outright rejection of those ideas.
