Could anyone recommend any good books on the 18th century Scottish Enlightenment? I'm looking less for an inquiry into the ideas of specific figures and more for a broad historical overview of the entire thing.

Who enlightened the highland rabble? :p

I can recommend a couple by a truly enlightened Scotsman,
Alexander Broadie;
"The Cambridge Companion to the Scottish Enlightenment"
"The Scottish Enlightenment: The Historical Age of the Historical Nation"

I picked up the Cambridge Companion to the Scottish Enlightenment today, luc. Thanks for the suggestion!

I also picked up The Scottish Enlightenment: A Social History by Anand Chitnis, can anybody testify to the goodness/badness of it, or if not it, then at least the author in general?


Oh and mr. princeps, you might like to read about it too, cuz I know you's a Chomsky fan and I once heard him call it "one of the peaks of western civilization".

Oh and mr. princeps, you might like to read about it too, cuz I know you's a Chomsky fan and I once heard him call it "one of the peaks of western civilization".

I is kidding.

Who enlightened the highland rabble? :p
It's more a question of who the "Highland rabble" enlightened. ;)