‘News from the Republick of Letters’
Scottish Students, Charles Mackie and the United Provinces, 1650-1750
Biographical note
Esther Mijers, Ph.D. (2002) in Scottish History, University of St Andrews, is lecturer in British History at the University of Reading. She is the author of numerous articles and edited collections on Scotland and the Netherlands in the late seventeenth century.
Readership
All those interested in intellectual and cultural history, Scottish history, the history of the university, the history of the book, the history of the Republic of Letters and the early Enlightenment, the history of the Scottish diaspora, as well as migration specialists and historians of the later Dutch Golden Age.
Table of contents
Acknowledgements
Map: The United Provinces c. 1700
Introduction
a. Historiography
b. Approach and Outline
c. Sources and Terminology
I. Context and Numbers
a. Scots in the United Provinces
b. Students
II. A Dutch Education
a. The Scottish Infrastructure
b. Institutions and Universities
c. The Curriculum
d. The Grand Tour
III. Going Dutch
a. Scotland and the Scottish Universities
b. The Book Trade
IV. Charles Mackie and the Limits of Dutch Learning
a. Mackie as Agent in the Republic of Letters
b. The Polyhistor
Conclusion
Appendix: Scottish Students in the United Provinces, 1650-1750
Bibliography
Index
Map: The United Provinces c. 1700
Introduction
a. Historiography
b. Approach and Outline
c. Sources and Terminology
I. Context and Numbers
a. Scots in the United Provinces
b. Students
II. A Dutch Education
a. The Scottish Infrastructure
b. Institutions and Universities
c. The Curriculum
d. The Grand Tour
III. Going Dutch
a. Scotland and the Scottish Universities
b. The Book Trade
IV. Charles Mackie and the Limits of Dutch Learning
a. Mackie as Agent in the Republic of Letters
b. The Polyhistor
Conclusion
Appendix: Scottish Students in the United Provinces, 1650-1750
Bibliography
Index
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