The Scottish Town in the Age of the Enlightenment 1740-1820 |
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| Author:
| Harris, Bob
McKean, Charles |
| ISBN: | 978-0-7486-9257-6 |
| Publication Date: | Aug 2014 |
| Publisher: | Edinburgh University Press
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| Book Format: | Paperback |
| List Price: | USD $49.95 |
Book Description:
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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. and numbers, this pioneering study of Scottish...
More DescriptionThis 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. and numbers, this pioneering study of Scottish urbanization explores the type of change and the quality of result.