Title Social change in the Age of Enlightenment : Edinburgh, 1660-1760 / R.A. Houston

Published Oxford : Clarendon Press ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1994

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Description 1 online resource (vi, 443 pages) : illustrations, maps Contents 1. Unity and Division -- 2. Definitions of Space -- 3. Anonymity, Visibility, and Values -- 4. Marginals -- 5. Popular Protest -- 6. Corruption, Consensus, and Competition Summary Eighteenth-century Edinburgh was the cradle of the Scottish Enlightenment and a city of international significance. The lives and ideas of its prominent figures have received extensive treatment, but little attention has been paid to the society which produced them. In this wide-ranging study of Edinburgh over a century of social change, R.A. Houston offers unrivalled breadth of analysis of the ways in which urban life was transformed. Chapters on social relationships, the use of space, the place of the poor in Scotland's capital, religious values and attitudes to urban living, riot, and popular protest, and developments in political economy build up to a powerful argument about social change in the decades before the Enlightenment. As well as providing unique depth of context for Enlightenment studies, this book explains how broader changes in social attitudes and values took root in a century which witnessed dramatic political, economic, and intellectual developments It is a major contribution not only to Scottish but also to British history Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 391-420) and index Notes Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL English digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL Print version record Subject Enlightenment -- Scotland -- Edinburgh Social change -- Scotland -- Edinburgh Enlightenment Intellectual life Social change Social conditions Sozialer Wandel Aufklärung Sociale verandering. Stadscultuur. Schotse School. SUBJECT Edinburgh (Scotland) -- Social conditions Edinburgh (Scotland) -- Intellectual life -- 18th century Edinburgh (Scotland) -- Intellectual life -- 17th century Subject Scotland -- Edinburgh Edinburgh Form Electronic book ISBN 9780191676222 0191676225

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