The Scottish Enlightenment and the French Revolution
- Submitting institution
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The Open University
- Unit of assessment
- 28 - History
- Output identifier
- 1457126
- Type
- A - Authored book
- DOI
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10.1017/CBO9781316135594
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press
- ISBN
- 9781107091764
- Open access status
- -
- Month of publication
- May
- Year of publication
- 2015
- URL
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http://www.cambridge.org/gb/academic/subjects/history/history-ideas-and-intellectual-history/scottish-enlightenment-and-french-revolution?format=HB
- Supplementary information
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- Request cross-referral to
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
- No
- Criminology
- No
- Interdisciplinary
- No
- Number of additional authors
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0
- Research group(s)
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- Proposed double-weighted
- Yes
- Double-weighted statement
- This monograph provides an extensive survey of Scottish philosophical commentaries on the French Revolution, conducted over six years of full-time doctoral and post-doctoral research. It required the close reading, analysis and comparison of hundreds of complex philosophical texts, published and unpublished, including handwritten university lectures and correspondence. Without any pre-existing study on the topic, identifying relevant sources and passages among the philosophical, literary, economic and journalistic writings of the period was painstaking and time-consuming. The argument relates to three vast historiographical fields (the French Revolution, the Scottish Enlightenment, and the British response to the French Revolution) which required in-depth investigation.
- Reserve for an output with double weighting
- No
- Additional information
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- Author contribution statement
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- Non-English
- No
- English abstract
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