Essays on the history of mankind in rude and cultivated ages
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Essays on the history of mankind in rude and cultivated ages
(Scottish thought and culture, 1750-1800 / series editor, Richard B. Sher, . Conjectural history and anthropology)
Thoemmes Press, 1995
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Reprint of: 2nd ed. London : Printed for W. Strahan, 1781
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In contrasting manners and customs in "barbarous" and "civilized" societies, the Aberdonian academic James Dunbar (1742-1798) engaged in one of the principal debates of the Scottish Engligtenment. First published in 1780, the "Essays" were praised, among others, by Samuel Johnson.
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