The Heralds

The Heralds
Author: Brian Killick
Publisher: Hamish Hamilton
Total Pages: 191
Release: 1973-01-01
Genre:
ISBN: 9780241024157

Before the Public Library

Before the Public Library
Author: Mark Towsey
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 433
Release: 2017-10-23
Genre: History
ISBN: 9004348670

Before the Public Library explores the emergence of community-based lending libraries in the Atlantic World before the advent of the Public Library movement in the mid-nineteenth century. Essays by eighteen scholars from a range of disciplines seek to place, for the first time, community libraries within an Atlantic context over a two-century period. Taking a comparative approach, this volume shows that community libraries played an important – and largely unrecognized – role in shaping Atlantic social networks, political and religious movements, scientific and geographic knowledge, and economic enterprise. Libraries had a distinct role to play in shaping modern identities through the acquisition and circulation of specific kinds of texts, the fostering of sociability, and the building of community-based institutions.

New Trends in Education in the Eighteenth Century

New Trends in Education in the Eighteenth Century
Author: Nicholas A Hans
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 274
Release: 2013-08-21
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1136240799

This is Volume VII of nine in a collection on Historical Sociology. Originally published in 1951, this is a study of educational institutions and movements, social and economic conditions and developments in a period that is seen as the actual realisation of modern education.

Reading the Scottish Enlightenment

Reading the Scottish Enlightenment
Author: Mark Towsey
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 380
Release: 2010-09-24
Genre: History
ISBN: 9004193510

It has become commonplace in recent decades for scholars to identify in the books of the Scottish Enlightenment the intellectual origins of the modern world, but little attention has yet been paid to its impact on contemporary readers. Drawing on a range of innovatory methodologies associated with the burgeoning interdisciplinary field of the history of reading, this book explores the reception of books by David Hume, Adam Smith, William Robertson and Thomas Reid (amongst many others), assessing their impact on the lives, beliefs and habits of mind of readers across the social scale. In the process, the book offers a fascinating new perspective on the fundamental importance of personal reading experiences to the social history of the Enlightenment.

Joseph Priestley, Scientist, Philosopher, and Theologian

Joseph Priestley, Scientist, Philosopher, and Theologian
Author: Isabel Rivers
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 265
Release: 2008-01-17
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 0199215308

Joseph Priestley, the eighteenth-century scientist who discovered oxygen, was one of the most remarkable thinkers of his time. This collection of essays by a team of experts covers the full range of his work in the fields of education, politics, philosophy, and theology, and firmly re-establishes him as a major intellectual figure.