This is a study of Scottish society from the defeat of the last Jacobite rebellion at Culloden in 1746 to the passing into law of the Scottish Reform Bill in July 1832.
Bruce Lenman's hugely ambitious study explores three interacting themes: the growth of England's sprawling colonial empire, its military dimension, and the impact of colonial warfare on national identity. He starts in Ireland, with the renewed assault of English settlers on the Irish Gaeltacht. Under the (Scottish) Stuarts, England then began a dramatic expansion across the North Atlantic. In America, the 'Indian Wars', fought with minimal Cro...
B> "Examines war and conflict at the heart of Britain's colonial expansion. . Surveys England in relation to expansionist Britain, turbulent Europe and finally the changing globe. From India to America, the book relates empire to the fortunes of war, charting ultimately the inevitability of the American Revolution. For those interested in British history or Imperialism. Also available in Hardcover - 0-582-42402-X $79.95Y
This second revised and expanded edition of the bestselling Integration and Enlightenment provides a compact survey of developments in Enlightenment Scotland, from the aftermath of the 1745 Jacobite rebellion to the Scottish Reform Act of 1832. The Act spelled the end of political and social systems that had presided over industrial and agricultural revolutions turning Scotland from a rural society to one of the most urbanised and industrialis...
This book describes a period which saw the rise of some of the most influential thinkers of the contemporary world, as the Scottish Enlightenment reached and perhaps passed its peak.
An unique insight into the role of the Early-Modern European military engineers in the construction and empowerment of sovereign authority, both in European kingdoms and republics and in the vast overseas dominions some of them acquired through the Expansion of Europe.
