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Author: David Allan
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint: Routledge
Volume: v. 8
Weight: 0.630kg
ISBN: 9780415890243
ISBN 10: 0415890241
Pages: 340
Publication Date: 06 January 2011
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College/higher education
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College/higher education
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Undergraduate
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Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: In Print
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He [Allan] must be applauded for further redirecting our focus on the consumers and institutions of Enlightenment culture and, above all else, for the magisterial scale of his archival excavations, which incorporates no fewer than fifty local repositories in addition to over a dozen major research libraries. -Journal of Modern History The object of this compelling work by a prolific and sophisticated historian of culture is to discover and uncover the 'common reader' in the eighteenth century... The analyses are subtle, complex and at times ingenious and witty. - Michael Saltman, The European Legacy: Toward New Paradigms
He [Allan] must be applauded for further redirecting our focus on the consumers and institutions of Enlightenment culture and, above all else, for the magisterial scale of his archival excavations, which incorporates no fewer than fifty local repositories in addition to over a dozen major research libraries. -Journal of Modern History The object of this compelling work by a prolific and sophisticated historian of culture is to discover and uncover the 'common reader' in the eighteenth century... The analyses are subtle, complex and at times ingenious and witty. - Michael Saltman, The European Legacy: Toward New Paradigms
He [Allan] must be applauded for further redirecting our focus on the consumers and institutions of Enlightenment culture and, above all else, for the magisterial scale of his archival excavations, which incorporates no fewer than fifty local repositories in addition to over a dozen major research libraries. -Journal of Modern History The object of this compelling work by a prolific and sophisticated historian of culture is to discover and uncover the 'common reader' in the eighteenth century... The analyses are subtle, complex and at times ingenious and witty. - Michael Saltman, The European Legacy: Toward New Paradigms
Author Information
David Allan is Reader in History at the University of St Andrews. His other books include Virtue, Learning and the Scottish Enlightenment: Ideas of Scholarship in Early Modern History (1993), Philosophy and Politics in Later Stuart Scotland: Neo-Stoicism, Culture and Ideology in an Age of Crisis, 1540-1690 (2000), Scotland in the Eighteenth Century: Union and Enlightenment (2002), Adam Ferguson (2006) and A Nation of Readers: The Lending Library in Georgian England (2008).
