The Cultural Memory of Georgian Glasgow

by Craig Lamont

Book Overview

This book provides a long overdue reading of Scotland's largest city as it was during the long eighteenth 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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1474443281
• ISBN13: 9781474443289
• Release Date: January 2023
• Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.82 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.2"