The Scottish Town in the Age of the Enlightenment 1740-1820
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The Scottish Town in the Age of the Enlightenment 1740-1820 by Bob Harris
This heavily illustrated and innovative study is founded upon personal documents, town council minutes, legal cases, inventories, travellers tales, plans and drawings relating to some 30 Scots burghs of the Georgian period. It establishes a distinctive and much-needed history for the development of Georgian Scots burghs.
Bob Harris held a personal chair in British History at the University of Dundee until 2006, since when he has been Fellow and Tutor in History at Worcester College, University of Oxford. He has published widely on eighteenth-century British and Irish political, social and cultural history. His most recent book was The Scottish People and the French Revolution, published in 2008. Between 2011-14, he has been vice chair of the Board of the Faculty of History at the University of Oxford. The late Charles McKean was Professor of Scottish Architectural History at the University of Dundee and considered the pre-eminent historian of Scottish buildings and towns. He is author of: The Scottish Thirties - an Architectural Introduction (Scottish Academic Press, Edinburgh, 1987); For a Wee Country: architectural contributions to Scotland since 1840 (RIAS, Edinburgh, 1990); Edinburgh Portrait of a City (Century, London, 1993) and The Making of the Museum of Scotland (NMS, Edinburgh, 2000).
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| ISBN 13 | 9780748692576 |
| ISBN 10 | 0748692576 |
| Title | The Scottish Town in the Age of the Enlightenment 1740-1820 |
| Author | Bob Harris |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Edinburgh University Press |
| Year published | 2014-08-15 |
| Number of pages | 698 |
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