NEIL MCCALLUM - A Small Country. Scotland 1700-1830

Edinburgh, James Thin, 1983. First Edition, Binding: Cloth, Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" Tall Octavo 0901834704 Hardback Hardback. First Edition. A Small Country. The eighteenth century was a marvellous time of blossing in so many fields of human endeavour, but nowhere was it more impressive than Scotland in the Golden Age. But while a great deal has been written about David Hume, Adam Smith, and Robert Burns, there has been a sad lack of a comprehensive account of the totality of accomplishment in Scotland during this period. The author fills the gap. Philosophers and engineers, poets and astronomers, arhcitects and mathematicians, road-makers and ship-builders, historians and physicists, chemists and geologists, agriculturists and doctors of medicine - all are paraded before us, and enable us to share in this wonderful explosion of knowledge and widening of intellectual frontiers. At the beginning of our period Scotland was bitterly poor, swept bare by a century of religious and political fighting. At the end of our period we stand on the threshold of the modern world. Illustrated. 224 pp. Plastic protective covering.