Richard B. Sher (Distinguished Professor of History Emeritus in the

Broschiertes Buch

Church and University in the Scottish Enlightenment

The Moderate Literati of Edinburgh

Beschreibung

This book is a major contribution to the social history of ideas. It brings to life the intellectual, moral and political milieu that fostered the Scottish Enlightenment in the second half of the 18th century.

Autor

Richard B. Sher is Distinguished Professor of History in the Federated History Department of New Jersey Institute of Technology and Rutgers University, Newark. He is the author of The Enlightenment and the Book: Scottish Authors and Their Publishers in Eighteenth-Century Britain, Ireland, and America (2006) and co-editor of The Glasgow Enlightenment (1995), Sociability and Society in Eighteenth-Century Scotland (1993), and Scotland and America in the Age of the Enlightenment (1990).

Produktdetails

• Edinburgh Classic Editions
• Verlag: Edinburgh University Press
• 2 ed
• Seitenzahl: 432
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. Dezember 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 140mm x 217mm x 26mm
• Gewicht: 544g
• ISBN-13: 9781474407434
• ISBN-10: 1474407439
• Artikelnr.: 43501018