This book argues that the \'first\' Scottish Enlightenment was championed by minority groups traditionally assumed to have been backward-looking and conservative-Jacobites, Episcopalians, and Catholics-and that it resulted in a dramatic transformation of how Scots understood their history..
This book argues that the \'first\' Scottish Enlightenment was championed by minority groups traditionally assumed to have been backward-looking and conservative-Jacobites, Episcopalians, and Catholics-and that it resulted in a dramatic transformation of how Scots understood their history.