The Scottish Enlightenment : the historical age of the historical nation

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"This book, written for the general reader, considers the achievement of this most astonishing period of Scottish history. It attends not only to the ideas that made the Scottish Enlightenment such a wondrous moment, but also to the people themselves who generated these ideas - men such as David Hume and Adam Smith, who are still read for the sake of the light they shed on contemporary issues."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved