Title The third Duke of Buccleuch and Adam Smith : estate management and improvement in Enlightenment Scotland / Brian Bonnyman

Published Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, 2014

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Description 1 online resource Series Scottish historical review monograph ; 23 Contents Title page; Copyright; Contents; Figures; Acknowledgements; Abbreviations; Glossary of Terms ; Map of the Buccleuch Estates ; Introduction; Chapter One Inheritance (1750-66) ; Chapter Two Education (1746-66) ; Chapter Three Majority (1767-70) ; Chapter Four Improvement I: The Lowland Estates (1767-1800) ; Chapter Five Improvement II: The Upland Estates (1767-1812) ; Chapter Six Interest (1767-1812) ; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index Summary Examines the career of Henry Scott, third Duke of Buccleuch (1746-1812), with particular focus on his relationship with his tutor and friend, the philosopher Adam Smith. Henry Scott, the third Duke of Buccleuch (1746-1812), presided over the management of one of the largest landed estates in Britain during a time of dramatic agrarian, social and political change. Tutored and advised by the philosopher Adam Smith, the Duke was also an important patron of the Scottish Enlightenment, lauded by the Edinburgh literati the as an exemplar of patriotic nobility and civic virtue, while his alliance with Henry Dundas dominated Scottish politics for almost forty years. Combining the approaches of intellectual, economic and landscape history, this book examines the life and career of the third Duke, focusing in particular on his relationship with Adam Smith and the improvement of his extensive Scottish estates. By examining the influence of one of the eighteenth century's foremost philosophers of improvement upon the career of one Scotland's largest landowners, this book explores the various influences - intellectual, economic, moral and political - which helped shape Scotland's distinctive agricultural revolution. In its exploration of the cultural as well as the economic roots of improvement and in its assessment of previously unappreciated aspect of Adam Smith's career, this book will appeal to both specialist scholars and general readers interested in the Scottish Enlightenment, estate management and the culture of improvement in eighteenth-century Scotland Notes Previously issued in print: 2013 Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes CIP data; resource not viewed Subject Buccleuch, Henry Scott, Duke of, 1746-1812. Smith, Adam, 1723-1790. SUBJECT Buccleuch, Henry Scott, Duke of, 1746-1812 fast Smith, Adam, 1723-1790 fast Subject Landowners -- Scotland -- Biography Nobility -- Scotland -- Biography Nobility -- Scotland -- History -- 18th century Land use, Rural -- Scotland -- History -- 18th century BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Historical. HISTORY -- Europe -- Great Britain. Land use, Rural Landowners Nobility Social conditions SUBJECT Scotland -- Social conditions -- 18th century. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh96009638 Subject Scotland Genre/Form Biographies History Biographies. Biographies. Form Electronic book LC no. 2014456280 ISBN 9780748694693 0748694692 9781474405980 1474405983 9780748642007 0748642005

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