What is the best book on the Scottish Enlightenment?

by sivaul

I am interested in learning about the history of the Scottish Enlightenment and about Scotland generally. Any recommendations would be appreciated.

Dudhope

Here are some books which might be of some interest to you:

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Thomas Ahnert, The Moral Culture of the Scottish Enlightenment: 1690-1805

Christopher J. Berry, Essays on Hume, Smith and the Scottish Enlightenment

Christopher J. Berry, The Idea of Commercial Society in the Scottish Enlightenment

Brian Bonnyman, The Third Duke of Buccleuch and Adam Smith: Estate Management and Improvement in Enlightenment Scotland

C. B. Bow, Common Sense in the Scottish Enlightenment

Alexander Broadie (ed), The Cambridge Companion to the Scottish Enlightenment

Alexander Broadie, A History of Scottish Philosophy (chapters 6-8)

John W. Cairns, Enlightenment, Legal Education, and Critique: Selected Essays on the History of Scots Law, Volume 2

John Finlay, The Community of the College of Justice: Edinburgh and the Court of Session, 1687 –1808

Aaron Garrett and James A. Harris (eds), Scottish Philosophy in the Eighteenth Century, Volume I: Morals, Politics, Art, Religion

R. A. Houston, Social Change in the Age of Enlightenment: Edinburgh 1660–1760

Fredrik Albritton Jonsson, Enlightenment's Frontier: The Scottish Highlands and the Origins of Environmentalism

Fania Oz-Salzberger, Translating the Enlightenment: Scottish Civic Discourse in Eighteenth-Century Germany

Andreas Rahmatian, Lord Kames: Legal and Social Theorist

Pat Rogers, Johnson and Boswell: The Transit of Caledonia

John Stuart Shaw, The Political History of Eighteenth-Century Scotland

Paul Wood (ed), The Scottish Enlightenment: Essays in Reinterpretation

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