Tabla de Contenidos: “…part, I Print, Progress and Politeness -- chapter Introduction -- Mapping Cultures of Improvement in Scottish Romanticism / chapter 1 Andrew Millar’s ‘Good Vouchers’ -- The Malt Tax Crisis and Trade in Controversy / chapter 2 Let Scotland Flourish by the Printing of the Word -- Commerce, Civic Enlightenment and National Improvement in the Glasgow Advertiser, 1783–1800 / chapter 3 ‘Simplicity, Rightly Understood’ -- Improvement in the Collaboration of Robert Burns and George Thomson / part, II Literature, Land and Commerce -- chapter 4 Thomas Pennant, National Description and the Project of Improvement / chapter 5 The Problem of Slavery in the Age of Improvement -- David Dale, Robert Owen and New Lanark Cotton / chapter 6 Pastoral Optimism at Improvement’s Frontier -- James Hogg’s Highland Journeys / chapter 7 ‘Earth and Stone’ -- Improvement, Entailment and Geographical Futures in the Novel of the 1820s / part, III Death, Legacy and Medicine -- chapter 8 Reading John Anderson’s Will -- Improving Human Nature, Science and Scotland in a Commercial Society / chapter 9 Medicine and Improvement in the Scots Magazine; and Edinburgh Literary Miscellany (1804–17) / chapter 10 A Death in the Cottage -- Spiritual and Economic Improvement in Romantic-Era Scottish Death Narratives / chapter 11 Postscript -- Varieties of Cultural Improvement in the Long Eighteenth Century…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Biographical index of medical signatories in favour of the creation of a Society of Chymical Physicians (1665) -- Jeremiah ASTEL (d.1675) -- (Sir) Richard BARKER (c.1622-1686) -- Thomas BARKER -- William BARKLEY or BERKELEY -- Robert BATHURST -- Edward BOLNEST (1627-1703) -- William BOREMAN or BURMAN (d.1707) -- Edward COKE or COOKE -- William CURRER (1617-1668) -- Joseph DEY (1615-1665) -- Sir Kenelm DIGBY (1603-1665) -- John FLOYD -- John FRYER (d.1672) -- William GODDARD (d.1670) -- Thomas HORSINGTON (1619-1666) -- Mr HORSNEL -- James JOLLY (b.1627) -- Johann Sibertus KÜFFELER (1595-1677) -- Nicolas or Nicaise LE FÉVRE (d.1669) -- Pierre MASSONET -- Everard MAYNWARING (c.1629-1713) -- Marchamont NEDHAM (1620-1678) -- Thomas NORTON (d.1669) -- Thomas O'DOWDE (d.1665) -- Thomas SMART -- John SPRANGER (1625-1685) -- George STARKEY (1628-1665) -- George THOMSON (c.1620-1677) -- George THORNLY (d.1665) -- Thomas TILLISON or TILSON -- John TROUTBECK (1612-1684) -- Thomas TROUTBECK -- Robert TURNER (1626-1665/6?) …”