Title & Author:

Scotland and America in the age of the Enlightenment / edited by Richard B. Sher and Jeffrey R. Smitten.

Publication:

Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [1990]
©1990

Description:

xii, 307 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

Notes:
From the Madeline Kripke Collection of the History of Lexicography.
InU
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Witherspoon and the problem of provincial identity in Scottish Evangelical culture / Ned C. Landsman -- Witherspoon's Dominion of providence and the Scottish Jeremiad tradition / Richard B. Sher -- Sacramental occasions and the Scottish context of Presbyterian Revivalism in America / Leigh Eric Schmidt -- The Popular Party of the Church of Scotland and the American Revolution / Robert Kent Donovan -- Witherspoon, Blair and the rhetoric of civic humanism / Thomas P. Miller -- Witherspoon, William Smith and the Scottish philosophy in Revolutionary America / Peter J. Diamond -- Hume, English barbarism and American independence / Donald W. Livingston -- Adam Smith and America: the political economy of conflict / Andrew S. Skinner -- Moderatism and history: William Robertson's unfinished history of British America / Jeffrey R. Smitten -- Aristocratic 'country' Whiggery in Scotland and the American Revolution / Bruce P. Lenman -- 'A jury of the country': common sense philosophy and the jurisprudence of James Wilson / Shannon C. Stimson -- Style périodique and Style coupé: Hugh Blair and the Scottish rhetoric of American independence / David Daiches -- Philadelphia, Edinburgh and the Scottish Enlightenment / Andrew Hook -- The transfer of medical education: teaching at the Edinburgh and Philadelphia medical schools / Deborah C. Brunton -- James Bremner, Alexander Reinagle and the influence of the Edinburgh Musical Society on Philadelphia / Anne McClenny Krauss -- Robert Smith, Philadelphia builder-architect: from Dalkeith to Princeton / Charles E. Peterson.

Summary:

"In the standard accounts of the American Enlightenment, Scottish influences on American culture are often recognised but usually limited to the effects of Scottish Common Sense Philosophy from the 1790s onwards. In the standard accounts of the Scottish Enlightenment, America's influence on Scottish thought is given little attention. Scholarship on both Enlightenments generally neglects religion, music, architecture and other important areas of culture. This book adopts a multidisciplinary approach to the rich and varied Scottish-American cultural relations in the eighteenth century. There are three broad topics: John Witherspoon as a bridge between evangelical religion and the Enlightenment during the era of the American Revolution; the respective influences of American affairs on Scottish thinkers, such as David Hume, Adam Smith, William Robertson and aristocratic 'country' Whigs, and of Scottish thought and rhetoric on the American Founding Fathers; and the Scottish component in the culture of late eighteenth-century Philadelphia, including philosophy and literature, medical education, music and architecture"--Back cover.

Resources:
Table of contents

ISBN:

0748601295
9780748601295
0748601783 (pbk.)
9780748601783 (pbk.)
069105553X (alkaline paper)
9780691055534

Subject:

Enlightenment United States.
Enlightenment Scotland.
Scottish Americans Intellectual life.
Siècle des Lumières États-Unis.
Siècle des Lumières Écosse.
Américains d'origine écossaise Vie intellectuelle.
Enlightenment
Intellectual life
Aufklärung
Geistesgeschichte
Geistesleben
Aufsatzsammlung
Verlichting (cultuurgeschiedenis)
Invloed.
United States Intellectual life 18th century.
Scotland Intellectual life 18th century.
États-Unis Vie intellectuelle 18e siècle.
Écosse Vie intellectuelle 18e siècle.
Scotland
United States
Schottland
USA
Scotland Intellectual life, 1714-1837
United States Intellectual life, 1607-1789

Form/genre:

Aufsatzsammlung.
History

Added entries:

Sher, Richard B., 1948- editor.
Smitten, Jeffrey R., editor.
Kripke, Madeline, former owner.
Madeline Kripke Collection of the History of Lexicography (Lilly Library, Indiana University, Bloomington)

Holdings:

Location: Library main 266763
Call No.: BIB 198759
Status: Available