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An Enlightened Duke the Life of Archibald Campbell (1682-1761), Earl of Ilay, 3rd Duke of Argyll: Perspectives: Scottish Studies of The Long Eighteenth Century Series

Autor Roger L. Emerson
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 22 aug 2013
Archibald Campbell, 3rd Duke of Argyll and 1st Earl of Ilay, lived a long and very active life as soldier, lawyer, politician, patron and businessman. History remembers him on the one-hand as courageous, good-natured, learned and accomplished - and, on the other, as 'a man of little truth, little honour, little principle'. His substantial political career, driven by gaining and increasing his power and that of his friends, is poorly documented, since many of his private papers have vanished. The author's interest in Argyll as a key figure in the Scottish Enlightenment - which became a thirty-year-long quest to piece together the fragmentary evidence of his complex life into a coherent story of the contradictions within his personal, intellectual and business activities - has given us the first major study of a fascinating man, shown as having changed the nature of Scottish culture.
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ISBN-13: 9781846220395
ISBN-10: 1846220394
Pagini: 572
Dimensiuni: 170 x 244 x 29 mm
Greutate: 0.9 kg
Ediția:New.
Editura: Zeticula
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Roger L. Emerson spent most of his career at the University of Western Ontario where he taught European and British social and intellectual history and is now an emeritus professor. An Associate Editor of the Oxford Encyclopeaedia of the Enlightenment(2002) he is also the author of: Professors, Patronage and Politics: The Aberdeen Universities in the Eighteenth Century (1992); Academic Patronage in the Scottish Enlightenment: Glasgow, Edinburgh and St Andrews Universities (2008); and Essays on David Hume, Medical Men and the Scottish Enlightenment:'Industry, Knowledge and Humanity' (2009).

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'.. a splendid new biography [which] makes a convincing case for the Duke as having a central role in promoting the Scottish Enlightenment, and, indeed, as a major Scottish figure of the eighteenth century.' Professor John Cairns 'The Scottish 18th century is a crowded place nowadays... [so] it is a something of a rare event for a major addition to be made to its pantheon of Great Scots. The great merit of Emerson's biography is to show the intimate connection [between] grubby day-to-day politicking and the glorious intellectual achievements of the Enlightenment. Emerson altogether makes of Scotland in that time a more real kind of place: a great achievement.' Michael Fry, The Scotsman, June 2013