This book provides a much overdue reading of Scotland's largest
city as it was during the long 18th century. These formative years
of Enlightenment, caught between the tumultuous ages of the
Reformation and the Industrial Revolution, cast Glasgow in a new
and vibrant light. Far from being a dusty metropolis lying in wait
for the famous age of shipbuilding, Glasgow was already an imperial
hub as implicated in mass migration and slavery as it was in civic
growth and social progression. Craig Lamont incorporates case
studies such as the Scottish Enlightenment, the transatlantic slave
trade and 18th-century print culture to investigate how the city
was shaped by the emergence of new trades and new ventures in
philosophy, fine art, science and religion. The book merges
historical, literary and memory studies to provide an original
blueprint for new research into other cities or civic spaces.
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