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Adam Smith : an enlightened life
- Title
- Adam Smith : an enlightened life / Nicholas Phillipson.
- Author
- Phillipson, N. T. (Nicholas T.)
- Publication
- New Haven [Conn.] ; London : Yale University Press, 2010.
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Details
- Description
- xiv, 345 p., [16] p. of plates : ill. (some col.), maps, ports.; 24 cm.
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 313-322) and index.
- Contents
- A Kirkcaldy upbringing -- Glasgow, Glasgow University and Francis Hutcheson's enlightenment -- Private study 1740-46 : Oxford and David Hume -- Edinburgh's early enlightenment -- Smith's Edinburgh lectures : a conjectural history -- Professor of moral philosophy at Glasgow, I. 1751-9 -- The 'Theory of moral sentiments' and the civilizing powers of commerce -- Professor of moral philosophy at Glasgow, 2. 1759-63 -- Smith and the Duke of Buccleuch in Europe 1764-6 -- London, Kirkcaldy and the making of the 'Wealth of nations' 1766-76 -- The 'Wealth of nations' and Smith's "very violent attack ... upon the whole commercial system of Great Britain" -- Hume's death -- Last years in Edinburgh 1778-90.
- Call Number
- JBE 12-641
- ISBN
- 9780300169270 (hardcover : alk. paper)
- 0300169272 (hardcover : alk. paper)
- 9780300177671
- 0300177674
- LCCN
- 2010925524
- OCLC
- 601346724
- Author
- Phillipson, N. T. (Nicholas T.)
- Title
- Adam Smith : an enlightened life / Nicholas Phillipson.
- Imprint
- New Haven [Conn.] ; London : Yale University Press, 2010.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 313-322) and index.
- Research Call Number
- JBE 12-641