The Scottish Town in the Age of the Enlightenment 1740-1820

by Harris, Bob; McKean, Charles

• ISBN13: 9780748692576
• ISBN10: 0748692576
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2014-09-01
• Publisher: Edinburgh University Press

Author Biography

Bob Harris is a lecturer in British History at the University of Oxford. He is a prolific historian who has written on many aspects of British politics and social and cultural history in the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. His publications include: A Patriot Press (Oxford, 1993); Politics and the Nation: Britain in the Mid- Eighteenth Century (Oxford, 2002) and Scotland in the Age of the French Revolution (Edinburgh, 2005).

The late Charles McKean was Professor of Scottish Architectural History at the University of Dundee and considered the pre-eminent historian of Scottish buildings and towns. He is author of: The Scottish Thirties - an Architectural Introduction (Scottish Academic Press, Edinburgh, 1987); For a Wee Country: architectural contributions to Scotland since 1840 (RIAS, Edinburgh, 1990); Edinburgh Portrait of a City (Century, London, 1993) and The Making of the Museum of Scotland (NMS, Edinburgh, 2000).