{"product_id":"macpherson-the-historian-mairi-macpherson-9781474411165","title":"MacPherson the Historian: History Writing, Empire and Enlightenment in the Works of James MacPherson","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThis is the first book-length study of James Macpherson (1736-1796) that considers him as an historian. From his early poetry, to the Ossianic Collections, his prose histories, and his later political writing, Macpherson's subject was the past and he engaged with the latest Enlightenment theories about how to write history. \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cp\u003eMacpherson the Historian examines James' published works, from the neoclassical verse of \u003ci\u003eThe Highlander (\u003c\/i\u003e1758) to his pamphlets defending the British imperial state during the late 1770s. In all of these texts, Macpherson wrote as an Enlightenment historian, where ideas about narrative, philosophy, and erudition were interwoven with eighteenth-century debates about the Highlands, commercial modernity, and the British Empire.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Mairi MacPherson, Jim MacPherson\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1474411169\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781474411165\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Edinburgh University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 02\/14\/2023\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 296\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.31lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.69d","brand":"Mairi MacPherson","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":44133067915519,"sku":"9781474411165","price":120.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_c19b87df-b820-4d7f-907e-365f35ef90eb.jpg?v=1687483895","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/macpherson-the-historian-mairi-macpherson-9781474411165","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}