Speculative minds in Georgian Ireland : novelty, experiment and widening horizons / Toby Barnard and Alison Fitzgerald, editors.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Barnard, T. C. (Toby Christopher), editor.

FitzGerald, Alison (Alison M.), editor.

ProQuest ebook central

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Ireland--History--18th century.

Ireland.

Ireland--Intellectual life--18th century.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (269 pages) : illustrations (some color), maps, plans.

Place of Publication:

Dublin, Ireland : Four Courts Press, [2023]

Contents:

List of illustrations

List of abbreviations

Notes on contributors

Acknowledgments

Introduction / Toby Barnard and Alison FitzGerald

Daily life and scientific enquiry / Leonie Hannan

Dublin's sugar landscapes in the eighteenth century : some French parallels and connections / Finola O'Kane

'Not to be had elsewhere in this kingdom ': buying and selling exotic plants in Ireland, 1740-1820 / David A. Fleming

A political turn of the Irish newspaper, 1760-70 / Joel Herman

A taste for pastes : Dr Henry Quin, James Tassie and the empress of Russia / Toby Barnard

Classicism and commerce: Josiah Wedgwoof and his 'seed[s] of consequence' / Alison FitzGerald

William Allen and the emergence of single-sheet graphic satire publication in Ireland, 1778-95 / James Kelly

The chimney doctor at Channel Row : Benjamin Thompson's experiments in poor relief in the 1790s / Padhraig Higgins

A brittle business : Charles Mulvany and the Dublin glass industry, c. 1780- c.1840 / Anna Moran

Frustrated ambition in the eighteenth-century Atlantic : Robert Tennet in Jamaica, c.1784-95 / Johnathan Jeffrey Wright

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI Available via World Wide Web.

Other Format:

Print version: Barnard, Toby Speculative Minds in Georgian Ireland

ISBN:

9781801511117

180151111X

Publisher Number:

99995765416

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.