İskoç ruhunun Atlantik üzerinden taşınması: İskoç aydınlanması ve Amerika bağımsızlık hareketleri üzerindeki etkileri

After the Spanish conquest, the southern part of America was called the New World. The 18th century was considered a real turning point in the historical formation of the idea of Europe, and debates about the New World started to shape. Ideas began to be circulated on both sides of the Atlantic. The concept of independence gained momentum with different dynamic intellectual movements. People who lived under colonial powers attempted to make revolutions to be able to cut their ties with the colonizers. Ideas about independence and freedom traveled across the Atlantic Ocean. The Enlightenment was a process, and it was the offspring of numerous intellectuals all over the world, and its ideas influenced several revolutions and upheavals. This thesis explicates that the Scottish/British Enlightenment was a process that influenced not only Europe but also Latin and North America within the scope of establishing independent states after the separation from the Spanish and British Empires. Political leaders did not only fight against the Spanish and British Rule; they also supported their rights and ideas and justified their actions by utilizing the legal and philosophical arguments of the Scottish/British Enlightenment.