Books On 18th and 19th Century Scotland (various specific topics)

by edoro42

Hey there! I'm both working on a writing project and generally interested in the subject, and I'm looking for reading material on the following subjects:

the relationship and history of England and Scotland from the 1700s through the mid 1800s
Highland vs Lowland Scotland, concerning cultural/religious/linguistic differences, as well as differences in the educational systems; things like what regular life would be for people at various levels of society, what the class divisions were like, what educational or job opportunities people had, and the differences between how men and women lived in society are all specific topics I am interested in
the culture and development of the Highlands from the mid 1700s to the mid 1800s, with an especial focus on the shifting attitudes towards the clan system and the use of Gaelic vs English
Edinburgh in the early to mid 1800s, especially the university scene

I welcome articles and books on any of the more specific or broad categories here! I don't have much of a budget or access to any kind of academic library, so with books, I would prefer ones that are available to buy online for reasonable prices. Ideally I would like ebooks or books/articles that are available through sites like JSTOR, but I can work with paperbacks.

I just don't have enough of a knowledge base to know what are good, reliable, academically respectable sources on the subject, so I would welcome expert input! Thank you!

Dudhope

Some of these might be more relevant than others. Unfortunately I don’t know much about the Highland culture in the 18th – 19th century so I don’t have many suggestions relating to that topic.

The National Library of Scotland has a page dedicated to Scottish Enlightenment.
NLS holds a lot of free material by text publication societies some of which might be useful to you: https://digital.nls.uk/publications-by-scottish-clubs/archive/84240604
Publications of the Scottish History Society: https://digital.nls.uk/scottish-history-society-publications/
Bennett, Capital Punishment and the Criminal Corpse in Scotland, 1740–1834 (free) - As its title suggests this book is about capital punishment but it's freely available.
MacCoinnich, Where and how was Gaelic written in late medieval and early modern Scotland? Orthographic practices and cultural identities (free)

Some of the books in these series could be useful:

Random stuff:

Ahnert, The Moral Culture of the Scottish Enlightenment: 1690-1805
Allan, Virtue, Learning, and the Scottish Enlightenment: Ideas of Scholarship in Early Modern History
Arthur, Brilliant Lives: the Clerk Maxwells and the Scottish Enlightenment
Bonnyman, The Third Duke of Buccleuch and Adam Smith: Estate Management and Improvement in Enlightenment Scotland
Broadie (ed), The Cambridge Companion to the Scottish Enlightenment
Brown and Fry (eds), Scotland in the Age of the Disruption
Cairns, Enlightenment, Legal Education, and Critique: Selected Essays on the History of Scots Law, Volume 2
Cosh, Edinburgh: The Golden Age
Devine, Clearance and improvement: land, power and people in Scotland, 1700-1900
Emerson, Academic Patronage in the Scottish Enlightenment: Glasgow, Edinburgh and St Andrews Universities
Foyster and Whatley (eds), A History of Everyday Life in Scotland, 1600 to 1800
Houston, Social Change in the Age of Enlightenment: Edinburgh 1660–1760
Jonsson, Enlightenment's Frontier: The Scottish Highlands and the Origins of Environmentalism
Milne (ed), Boswell's Edinburgh Journals 1767-1786
Morton and Griffiths (eds), A History of Everyday Life in Scotland, 1800 to 1900
Rodger, The Road to the Disruption
Rogers, Johnson and Boswell: The Transit of Caledonia
Sharpe, ‘Iona in 1771: Gaelic tradition and visitors’ experience’
Shaw, The Political History of Eighteenth-Century Scotland
Wood (ed), The Scottish Enlightenment: Essays in Reinterpretation
Youngson, The Making of Classical Edinburgh, 1750-1840

ComfortableMiddle6

I asked a similar question not too long ago on Byzantium and this link really helped booklist

hillsonghoods

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