Brian Bonnyman is Honorary Research Fellow at the University of Aberdeen.
A detailed and surprisingly gripping account of improvement in
action... Bonnyman's careful analysis of the Buccleuch archive
provides a convincing account of the aristocratic contribution to
Scotland's agricultural improvement, and it will prove an
invaluable tool for anyone interested in the
subject. -- Alexander Dick, Eighteenth-Century Scotland
This volume paints a complex picture with an admirably light touch;
it deserves its place in a prestigious publishing series and makes
a key addition to a wide range of historical and intellectual
fields. -- Annie Tindley, Agricultural History Review
Bonnyman's book shows us how to weave together intellectual,
economic and political history in new exciting ways. This is a
superb book that deserves to be widely read. -- Fredrik Albritton
Jonsson, Journal of Scottish Historical Studies
Early on in this interesting and multi-faceted tale, the author
reminds economic historians that improvement was not just about
productivity as revealed by our crunching of numbers but also
through changing moral, philosophic, and aesthetic values... Brian
Bonnyman has fashioned an interesting and
equally balanced approach to the life and times of a complex man in
his complex time. -- Michael Turner, Economic History Review
[This volume] highlights Smith's role as both tutor and adviser to
the duke and shows that Smith's ideas had an important infl uence
on his pupil's attempts to improve his estates. The book can be
read as a case study of the ways in which the intellectual concerns
of the Scottish Enlightenment and
its associated culture of improvement infl uenced the management of
a nobleman's landed estate. -- Hiroyuki Furuya, Journal of the
History of Economic Thought
An intriguing view into the estate management and improvement
policies of the third duke of Buccleuch, an often-overlooked figure
within the eighteenth-century Scottish Enlightenment. -- Daniel
Bochman, University of Edinburgh, Northern Scotland
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