Scottish Town in the Age of the Enlightenment 1740-1820

Häftad, Engelska, 2014

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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 history for the development of Scots burghs, their living patterns and legislative controls, and shows that the Scottish urban experience was quite different from other parts of Britain. With population expansion, and economic and social improvement, Scots of the time experienced immense change both in terms of urban behaviour and the decay of ancient privileges and restrictions. This volume shows how the Scots Georgian burgh developed to become a powerfully controlled urban community, with disturbance deliberately designed out. This is a collaborative history, melding together political, social, economic, urban and architectural histories, to achieve a comprehensive perspective on the nature of the Scottish Georgian town. Not so much a history by growth and numbers, this pioneering study of Scottish urbanization explores the type of change and the quality of result. Key FeaturesA pioneering study of how Scottish urban life changed during the 18th century, to be matched against the well-covered English town.Combines social, economic, architectural and urban history in a systematic, comparative manner.The product of an extensive 3-year AHRC-funded research project into extensive, yet untapped primary sources.This research significantly revises current historiography about the Scots urban evolution and the nature of ‘British’ towns.Heavily illustrated, the pictures being as much of the message as the text.

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Utgivningsdatum:2014-08-04
Mått:172 x 244 x 33 mm
Vikt:1 315 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:640
Förlag:Edinburgh University Press
ISBN:9780748692576

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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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This is an outstanding work of scholarship: it revises the intellectual framework of urban history (including English urban history), and adds nuanced detail and interpretation to a number of Scottish towns which have been overlooked for far too long.'

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Preface; List of Illustrations; List of Tables; List of Maps; List of Abbreviations; Introduction; Part 1: Towns and improvement; Chapter 1: Scottish towns in context; Chapter 2: Urban improvement; Chapter 3: Urban embellishment and public buildings ;Chapter 4: A tale of five towns; Part 2: Society and Culture; Chapter 5: Middling ranks, homes and possessions; Chapter 6: Cultural life: transformation and adaptation; Chapter 7: ‘Community’, order, and the stability of the burgh; Conclusion; Appendix – Improvement Profiles; Bibliography; Index