Crowded with Genius: Edinburgh, 1745-1789Harper Collins, 13 жовт. 2009 р. - 464 стор. In the early eighteenth century, Edinburgh was a filthy backwater town synonymous with poverty and disease. Yet by century's end, it had become the marvel of modern Europe, home to the finest minds of the day and their breathtaking innovations in architecture, politics, science, the arts, and economics—all of which continue to echo loudly today. Adam Smith penned The Wealth of Nations. James Boswell produced The Life of Samuel Johnson. Alongside them, pioneers such as David Hume, Robert Burns, James Hutton, and Sir Walter Scott transformed the way we understand our perceptions and feelings, sickness and health, relations between the sexes, the natural world, and the purpose of existence. In Crowded with Genius, James Buchan beautifully reconstructs the intimate geographic scale and boundless intellectual milieu of Enlightenment Edinburgh. With the scholarship of a historian and the elegance of a novelist, he tells the story of the triumph of this unlikely town and the men whose vision brought it into being. |
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... Council Archives and the Edinburgh Room of the Central Public Library , Edinburgh . He is grateful for the assistance of Caroline Dawnay , David MacMillan , Caroline Knox , John Murray , Deborah Stewartby , Allan Massie , Constantine ...
... Council a year later had demolished the formal administration of Scotland . In as much as the country was ruled at all during the long ascendancy in London of Sir Robert Walpole , it was controlled by the Duke of Argyll and a clutch of ...
... Council was to maintain peace between the guilds and , in alliance with the Kirk - sessions and the Presbytery , an atmosphere of unctuous piety . From a distance the town was a palisade of towers rising , in the phrase of Robert ...
... Council House on the site of what is now the lobby of the Signet Library , six of the Lords of Session under the Lord Justice - Clerk constituted the High Court of Justiciary , Scotland's highest criminal court , from which there was no ...
... Council had to be ' new constituted ' ; but at a public meeting on 7 April 1737 , where as Old Provost he was called first , he was too timid to speak up.76 The government , determined to punish Edinburgh , summoned Lord Provost Wilson ...
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4 | 57 |
Smaller Joys from Less Important Causes | 119 |
Torrents of Wind | 173 |
The Savage and the Shopkeeper | 208 |
The Art of Dancing | 241 |
Earth to Earth | 289 |
The Man of Feeling | 398 |
Notes | 412 |
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