Bob Harris (CUF Lecturer, British History_x000B_, Oxford University, Charles McKean

Broschiertes Buch

The Scottish Town in the Age of the Enlightenment 1740-1820

Beschreibung

This heavily illustrated and innovative study is founded upon personal documents, town council minutes, legal cases, inventories, travellersâ 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.

Autor

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Edinburgh University Press
• Seitenzahl: 640
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. August 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 243mm x 173mm x 33mm
• Gewicht: 1318g
• ISBN-13: 9780748692576
• ISBN-10: 0748692576
• Artikelnr.: 40466109