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John Stuart Blackie: Scottish Scholar and Patriot

Book information

Publisher
Edinburgh University Press
Year
2006
ISBN
9780748628193
DOI
10.1515/9780748628193
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
2 MB (1717478 bytes)
Pages
288\352
Library
degruyter.com
Time added
2023-08-22 04:41:17

Description

GBS_insertPreviewButtonPopup('ISBN:9780748611850);But Blackie was also a great 'public man', corresponding with great and famous throughout Great Britain and Europe, from Goethe and Carlyle to Ruskin and Gladstone, and filling the pages of newspapers and journals with writings on the major issues of the day. For the last thirty years of his life he became closely involved in issues of Scottish nationalism and home rule, and as champion of the crofters is largely responsible for their contemporary survival and unique status.Despite the existence of a rich archive of his papers and letters, there has been only one book devoted to his life: The Life of Professor John Stuart Blackie, the most distinguished Scotsman of the day, edited by J. G. Duncan and published in 1895.

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