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Enlightenment and Change: Scotland 1746-1832 (The New History of Scotland)
Enlightenment and Change Scotland 17461832 - The New History of Scotland Author:Bruce Lenman The most up to date edition of the bestselling Integration and Enlightenment, Enlightenment and Change surveys Enlightenment Scotland from the aftermath of the 1845 Jacobite rebellion to the Scottish Reform Act of 1832. The Act brought an end to the political and social systems that had presided over industrial and agricultural r... more »evolutions, turning rural Scotland into one of the most urbanized and industrialized of the European nations. Scotland also became a leading cultural force in a new, more expansive Atlantic and European world in which the ideas of its Enlightenment thinkers travelled from Moscow to Philadelphia. These changes were brought by the Union of 1707, which incorporated Scotland into the United Kingdom of Great Britain, yet within the UK a distinctive political system run by the Dukes of Argyll and the so-called "Dundas Despotism" continued to dominate Scotland. This volume studies how that system first stimulated and exploited cultural and economic change and then, ultimately, was destroyed by it.« less