Eighteenth Century Scotland
Eighteenth Century Scotland

Author: Tom M. Devine

Publisher: Birlinn Ltd

Published: 2022-01-06

Total Pages: 270

ISBN-13: 1788855531

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This impressive collection of essays is based on a two-year seminar series of the Research centre in Scottish History at the University of Strathclyde. New and original research, as well as historiographical overviews and commentaries, illuminate the study of this formative century in the creation of modern Scotland. Contributors are leading figures in their fields, and the Scottish experience is examined within an international dimension. Topics include Scottish modernisation before the Industrial Revolution, the Union of 1707, Scotland and British expansion, Scottish Jacobitism, the Catholic underground, Scottish national identity, the Scottish Enlightenment, urbanisation, demographic change, Scottish Gaeldom, Highland estate management and tenant emigration, and Scottish radicalism. Contributors: Thomas M. Devine, John R. Young, Michael Fry, Allan I. Macinnes, James F. McMillan, Alexander Murdoch, Richard J. Finlay, Jane Rendall, Bernard Aspinwall, Ian D. Whyte, Robert E. Tyson, T. C. Smout, Andrew Mackillop, Christopher A. Whatley, Elaine W. McFarland.

Colonial Adventures: Commercial Law and Practice in the Making
Colonial Adventures: Commercial Law and Practice in the Making

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Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2020-11-04

Total Pages: 452

ISBN-13: 900444307X

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Colonial Adventures:Commercial Law and Practice in the Making proposes a lung run exploration of the influence of colonisation and overseas trade on commercial law and the adaptation of transplanted law to colonial constraints in a comparative perspective.

John Law of Lauriston
John Law of Lauriston

Author: A. W. Wiston-Glynn

Publisher: DigiCat

Published: 2022-07-21

Total Pages: 158

ISBN-13:

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This book is a biography of John Law, a Scottish economist who distinguished money, a means of exchange, from national wealth dependent on trade. He served as Controller General of Finances under the Duke of Orleans, who was regent for the juvenile Louis XV of France. In 1716, Law set up a private Banque Générale in France, which effectively made it the nation's first central bank.

The Scottish Empire
The Scottish Empire

Author: Michael Fry

Publisher: Birlinn Ltd

Published: 2002-02-01

Total Pages: 674

ISBN-13: 1788854322

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This new edition of Michael Fry's remarkable book charts the involvement of the Scots in the British empire from its earliest days to the end of the twentieth century. It is a tale of dramatic extremes and craggy characters and of a huge range of concerns - from education, evangelism and philanthropy to spying, swindling and drug running. Stories of Scottish regiments on the rampage, cannibalism and other atrocities are contrasted with the deeds of heroic pioneers such as David Livingstone and Mary Slessor. Above all it tells how the British empire came to be dominated and run by the Scots, and how it truly became a Scottish empire. As the empire transformed Scotland beyond recognition, so was the Empire shaped by the Scots - a remarkable achievement from the population of so small a country, which was itself neither nation nor fully province, neither fully colonizer nor fully colonized. Michael Fry's energetic and colourful account is one of the classics of modern Scottish history.

A Union for Empire
A Union for Empire

Author: John Robertson

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2006-11-02

Total Pages: 396

ISBN-13: 9780521029889

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Essays by leading historians which explore the political significance of the Anglo-Scottish Union of 1707.

The Case for The Enlightenment
The Case for The Enlightenment

Author: John Robertson

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2005-10-27

Total Pages: 477

ISBN-13: 1139448072

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An interesting and ambitious comparative study of the emergence of Enlightenment in Scotland and Naples. Challenging the tendency to fragment the Enlightenment in eighteenth-century Europe into multiple Enlightenments, John Robertson demonstrates the extent to which thinkers in two societies at the opposite ends of Europe shared common intellectual preoccupations.