The Great Scots Education Hoax
Rosalind Mitchison, 18 October 1984
The Companion to Gaelic Scotland
edited by Derick Thomson.
Blackwell, 363 pp., £25, December 1983,0 631 12502 7 Show More
edited by Derick Thomson.
Blackwell, 363 pp., £25, December 1983,
Experience and Enlightenment: Socialisation for Cultural Changes in 18th-Century Scotland
by Charles Camic.
Edinburgh, 301 pp., £20, January 1984,0 85224 483 5 Show More
by Charles Camic.
Edinburgh, 301 pp., £20, January 1984,
Knee Deep in Claret: A Celebration of Wine and Scotland
by Billy Kay and Cailean Maclean.
Mainstream, 232 pp., £9.95, November 1983,0 906391 45 8 Show More
by Billy Kay and Cailean Maclean.
Mainstream, 232 pp., £9.95, November 1983,
Education and Opportunity in Victorian Scotland: Schools and Universities
by R.D. Anderson.
Oxford, 384 pp., £25, July 1983,0 19 822696 9 Show More
by R.D. Anderson.
Oxford, 384 pp., £25, July 1983,
Scotland: The Real Divide
edited by Gordon Brown and Robin Cook.
Mainstream, 251 pp., £9.95, November 1983,0 906391 18 0 Show More
edited by Gordon Brown and Robin Cook.
Mainstream, 251 pp., £9.95, November 1983,
Wealth and Virtue: The Shaping of Political Economy in the Scottish Enlightenment
edited by Istvan Hont and Michael Ignatieff.
Cambridge, 371 pp., £35, November 1983,0 521 23397 6 Show More
edited by Istvan Hont and Michael Ignatieff.
Cambridge, 371 pp., £35, November 1983,
“... the author, ‘is not even an 18th-century Scottish word.’ My respect for the past goes up. Charles Camic believes, I think, that the great men of the Enlightenment could pioneer new areas of thought only if they had been removed from their fathers’ influence at an early age, and later subjected to university in large, impersonal classes. So Adam ... ”
