The Manuscripts of Adam Ferguson

This volume contains a newly-edited cache of over 30 manuscript essays on a diverse range of topics and descriptions.

This crucial volume contains a newly-edited cache of over thirty essays on a diverse range of topics from the renowned philosopher, Adam Ferguson, a leading figure of the Scottish Enlightenment. Following on from The Correspondence of Adam Ferguson (1995), this collection aims to set the essays more fully in the

This volume contains a newly-edited cache of over 30 manuscript essays on a diverse range of topics and descriptions.

This volume contains a newly-edited cache of over 30 manuscript essays on a diverse range of topics and descriptions.

Unique among the leading figures of the Scottish Enlightenment, Ferguson saw two eighteenth-century revolutions, the American and the French. This monograph contains essays that range across all of Ferguson's works to investigate his engagement with contemporary events and his contributions to our understanding of history and human action.