Scottish Town in the Age of the Enlightenment 1740-1820

Scottish Town in the Age of the Enlightenment 1740-1820
Author: Bob Harris
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Total Pages: 640
Release: 2014-08-04
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 0748692584

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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 and much-needed history for the development of Georgian Scots burghs.


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