Central Washington University
Enlightened Agricultural Improvement in Eighteenth-Century Scotland
Abstract
dc:description.abstractEighteenth-century Scotland is marked by the impact of new ideas from the Scottish Enlightenment that influenced agricultural revolution. Practices that had been used for over hundreds of years with little change, went through a dramatic agricultural reimagining during this time period. Scottish Enlightenment “improvers,” like Henry Home, Lord Kames, demonstrate this push towards “progress.” In particular, Lord Kames represents a conundrum. He, like many other Scots, believed in the authenticity of Ossian’s translated poems by James Macpherson. This patriotic devotion to Scottish culture influenced the way that Kames went about “improving” his own lands and who he chose to work on them. There were parts of Scottish culture that were depicted in these poems regarding Gaelic culture that Kames wanted to preserve. Even though Kames, like many Scots of his time, wanted change, they also wanted to preserve traditional Scottish culture portrayed in Ossian’s poems.
Degree
thesis:*- Name thesis:degree_name
- Master of Arts (MA)
- Discipline thesis:degree_discipline
- History
- Year dc:date.available
- 2019
Author and committee
dc:creator, dc:contributor.*- Author dc:creator
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- Widney, Amanda M.
- Contributors dc:contributor
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- Jason Knirck
- Roxanne Easley
- Daniel Herman
Subjects
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- Language dc:language
- English
Identifiers
dc:identifier.*- Repository record dc:identifier
- https://digitalcommons.cwu.edu/etd/1222
- OAI identifier oai:identifier
- oai:digitalcommons.cwu.edu:etd-2166