Scotland in the Eighteenth Century: Union and Enlightenment

Once a small and isolated country with an unenviable reputation for poverty and instability, by 1800 Scotland was emerging, within a triumphant British state, as an economic powerhouse, a major colonial power and an internationally-acclaimed centre of European philosophy, science and literature. In search of explanations, this full history explores the experiences and responses of a people whose world was being fundamentally reconfigured. Starting with the momentous Act of Union, it traces the unsuccessful Jacobite rebellions and bewildering encounters with commercial development, industrialisation and social change, to the extraordinary cultural achievements of the Scottish Enlightenment and the exploitation of the unprecedented opportunites available in England, India and North America.

Author: David Allan
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 10/19/2001
Pages: 228
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.79lbs
Size: 11.08h x 5.88w x 0.55d
ISBN: 9780582382473

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