Scotland and America in the Age of the Enlightenment
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3356636 |
|---|---|
| Authors | J M Bumsted (corresponding author), Richard B Sher (0000-0001-6349-5045), Jeffrey R Smitten |
| Year | 1991 |
| Volume | 48 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 628 |
| Publication date | 1991-10-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The William and Mary Quarterly (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0043-5597 • E-ISSN: 1933-7698 |
| Publisher | JSTOR (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/2938133 |
| OpenAlex | W2154474373 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 14 |
Now in paperback this book displaces the notion that 18th-century Scotland and America were mere cultural provinces of England. It shows that Scottish religious culture, philosophy, medical education, music and architecture were directly influencing British North America at this time. 16 contributors including David Daiches, Andrew Hook and Bruce Lenman, focus on 3 main topics: religion and revolution as affected by the work of John Witherspoon; the influence of Scottish philosophers such as David Hume, Adam Smith and William Robertson on the American founding fathers, and vice-versa; and Scottish thought and culture in early Philadelphia. For those new to the period there is an extensive historiographical introduction, and chapters cover all aspects of the arts and sciences, including music, rhetoric, politics, philosophy, economics, jurisprudence, medicine, architecture and literature
Enlightenment · Political science · Theology · American Constitutional Law and Politics · History · Philosophy
Scottish style and American romantic idiom
William Robertson's History of Manners in German, 1770-1795
Bring Me the Head of James Macpherson
The Use of the New Testament in the American Slave Controversy
The Third British Empire
North Britishness and the nature of eighteenth-century British patriotisms
The Childhood Shows the Man”
A peculiar silence
Perfecting the nation
The Career of Puritan Jurisprudence
Anglicization and Autonomy
The Mind of a Moral Agent
The Second Amendment
Hugh Blair, Robert Burns, and the Invention of Scottish Literature
| Unique citing works | 14 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,47 |
| Citation span | 1996 - 2016 (21) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 11 |