Adam Smith : an enlightened life, Nicholas Phillipson

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Adam Smith : an enlightened life, Nicholas Phillipson

Title remainder

an enlightened life

Statement of responsibility

Nicholas Phillipson

Instantiates

• Adam Smith : an enlightened life

Publication

• New Haven, Yale University Press, 2010

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references and index

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volume

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• nc

Carrier MARC source

rdacarrier

Content category

text

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• txt

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rdacontent

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

Dimensions

25 cm.

Extent

xiv, 345 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates

Isbn

9780300169270

Isbn Type

(hardcover : alk. paper)

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2010925524

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unmediated

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rdamedia

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• n

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illustrations (some color), maps, portraits

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681361

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• (OCoLC)ocn601346724
• (Sirsi) o601346724
• (OCoLC)601346724