Race and the Scottish enlightenment : a colonial history, 1750-1820 /

"In the decades after 1750, an increasing number of former medical students from the University of Edinburgh construed humanity as a subject of both intellectual curiosity and colonial interest. They drew on a shared educational background, blending medicine with natural history and moral philo...

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Main Authors:	Andersson Burnett, Linda (Author), Buchan, Bruce, 1968- (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	New Haven ; London : Yale University Press, [2025]
Series:	Lewis Walpole series in eighteenth-century culture and history.
Subjects:	Race. Enlightenment > Scotland. Scotland > Intellectual life. Scotland > Race relations. Imperialism > Influence.