The Scottish enlightenment abroad : the Russells of Braidshaw in Aleppo and on the coast of Coromandel /
In The Scottish Enlightenment Abroad , Janet Starkey examines the lives and works of Scots working in the mid eighteenth century with the Levant Company in Aleppo, then within the Ottoman Empire; and those working with the East India Company in India, especially in the fields of natural history, med...
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Language: English
Published:
Leiden ; Boston :
Brill,
2018.
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Middle East and Islamic Studies E-Books Online, Collection 2018, ISBN: 9789004353343.
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Call Number: DA812 .S73 2018
- Front Matter
- "The Prospect of Aleppo" from Henry Maundrell, A Journey from Aleppo to Jerusalem (Oxford: printed at the Theater, c.1703). Signed "MB", probably by M. Burghers (artist and engraver)
- Copyright page
- Acknowledgements
- List of Figures and Tables
- Prelude
- Living the Scottish Enlightenment
- From Edinburgh to Aleppo
- With the Levant Company in Aleppo
- After Aleppo
- The "Literary-Artistic": Setting the Scene
- Introducing Aleppo1 and Aleppo2
- The Natural History of Religions, Politics and the Everyday
- Exploring the Cosmopolitan Everyday
- On Sophistication and Pleasure
- Scientific Enlightenment and "New Medicine"
- Medical Practice in Ottoman Aleppo
- Pathology and Epidemics
- Scientific Enlightenment, Natural History and Improvements
- Flora and Fauna of Aleppo
- Gardens and the Trope of Romanticism
- Natural History in India
- Curiosity, Wonder and Enlightenment
- Collecting: Identification and Authentication
- Epilogue.