| Description |
1 online resource (xvi, 467 pages) |
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Intro; Contents; Acknowledgements; List of Figures and Tables; Prelude; Introduction; Introducing the Russells and Their Works; The Challenge of the Scottish Enlightenment Abroad; Part 1 Living the Scottish Enlightenment; Chapter 1 From Edinburgh to Aleppo; Education and Medical Training; 1735 to 1740. Alexander Russell: toward Aleppo; Conclusions; Chapter 2 With the Levant Company in Aleppo; Life with the Levant Company in Aleppo; Bazaars, Sūqs and the Khān al-Jumruk; Entertainment; Visitors; Explorers and Eccentric Travellers; Travellers en route to and from India; Leaving Aleppo |
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Chapter 3 After Aleppo1755 to 1768. Alexander Russell in London; 1772 to 1781. Patrick Russell in Edinburgh and London; Edinburgh; London; With the East India Company; 1789 Onwards. After India; Patrick's Final Years; Patrick's Death and Heritage; Conclusions; Part 2 The "Literary-Artistic": Setting the Scene; Chapter 4 Introducing Aleppo1 and Aleppo2; Enlightenment as Cultural Revolution: Books and Translations; Aleppo1; Aleppo2; Enlightenment as Image-Making: Visuality; Enlightenment as Media Revolution: Compendia, Journals and Book Reviews; Compendia; Journals and Book Reviews |
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Part 3 The Natural History of Religions, Politics and the EverydayChapter 5 Exploring the Cosmopolitan Everyday; Cosmopolitan Aleppo; Christians in Aleppo; Jews in Aleppo; Ottoman Despotism and Political Authority; Legal Balances and Aleppo's Militia; Changing European Attitudes to Religions; Chapter 6 On Sophistication and Pleasure; Food and Diet; On the Turkish harem; Coffee-Houses and Puppet Shows; Shadow Puppets as Political Commentary; Music; Fictional Realities; Conclusions; Part 4 Scientific Enlightenment and "New Medicine"; Chapter 7 Medical Practice in Ottoman Aleppo |
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Medical AuthoritiesClinical Practice; Therapeutics; Chapter 8 Pathology and Epidemics; Epidemic Diseases: Three Different Research Paths; Oca; Smallpox; Of the Plague and Contagion; The Impact of The Treatise of the Plague on Aleppo; Different Types of the Plague; Possible Causes of the Plague; Quarantine and lazarettos; Advising the Privy Council of Great Britain; Medical Arithmetic and Its Impact; Part 5 Scientific Enlightenment, Natural History and Improvements; Chapter 9 Flora and Fauna of Aleppo; Catalogues and Commentaries; Of Quadrupeds; Of Birds; Of Fishes |
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Of Reptiles and Insects, &c. Of Plants; Classifications, Buffon and Linnaeus; Local Terms and Arabic Authorities; Chapter 10 Gardens and the Trope of Romanticism; Aleppine Gardens; Georgian Gardens and Exotic Seeds; Chapter 11 Natural History in India; Fauna of the Carnatic; Fishes; Insects and Serpents; Flora of the Carnatic; Exploring and Improving materia medica in India; Experimental Crops and Useful Plants; Part 6 Curiosity, Wonder and Enlightenment; Chapter 12 Collecting: Identification and Authentication; Chaplains, Coins and Curiosities; Arabic Medical Manuscripts |
| Summary |
In The Scottish Enlightenment Abroad , Janet Starkey examines the lives and works of Scots working in the mid eighteenth century with the Levant Company in Aleppo, then within the Ottoman Empire; and those working with the East India Company in India, especially in the fields of natural history, medicine, ethnography and the collection of Arabic and Persian manuscripts. The focus is on brothers from Edinburgh: Alexander Russell MD FRS, Patrick Russell MD FRS, Claud Russell and William Russell FRS. By examining a wide range of modern interpretations, Starkey argues that the Scottish Enlightenment was not just a philosophical discourse but a multi-faceted cultural revolution that owed its vibrancy to ties of kinship, and to strong commercial and intellectual links with Europe and further abroad |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and indexes |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on April 12, 2018) |
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Russell family
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| Subject |
Enlightenment -- Scotland
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Scots -- Syria -- Aleppo
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HISTORY -- Middle East -- General.
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Enlightenment
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Intellectual life
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Scots
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Scotland -- Intellectual life -- 18th century
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Scotland
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Syria -- Aleppo
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2018009458 |
| ISBN |
9789004362130 |
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9004362134 |
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