Race and the Scottish Enlightenment: A Colonial History, 1750-1820

by Bruce Buchan and Linda Andersson Burnett

How colonialism shaped the Scottish Enlightenment's conception of race and humanity

In the decades after 1750, an increasing number of former medical students from the University of Edinburgh construed humanity as a subject of both intellectual curiosity and colonial interest. They drew on a shared educational background, blending medicine with natural history and moral philosophy, in a range of encounters with non-European and Indigenous...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0300264380
• ISBN13: 9780300264388
• Release Date: August 2025
• Publisher: Yale University Press
• Length: 288 Pages