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Scotland and nationalism : Scottish society and politics, 1707 to the present.
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ISBN: 0415327245 0415327253 Year: 2004 Publisher: London Routledge


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"News from the Republick of Letters" : Scottish students, Charles Mackie, and the United Provinces, 1650-1750
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ISBN: 9789004210684 9789004228160 9004228160 9004210687 1280496096 9786613591326 Year: 2012 Volume: 161 Publisher: Leiden ; Boston : Brill,

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The late seventeenth century Netherlands have traditionally been viewed as the intellectual entrepot of Europe in general, and for Scotland in particular. Scottish students flocked in large numbers to the Dutch universities, bringing back ideas and books which influenced Scottish learning well into the eighteenth century. This book is the first full-length study of Scots in the United Provinces between 1650 and 1750. It analyses their numbers at the Dutch universities, the education they received and the impact this had on Scottish learning, on the eve of the Enlightenment, showing that the Scottish-Dutch relationship provided the infrastructure, which allowed Scotland to take part in a wider Republic of Letters and that its culture was increasingly characterised by it.

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