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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... English throne , and its nobility followed at the amalgamation of the Scottish and English parliaments in 1707. Edinburgh had no manufacturing , and its trade was a set of pettifogging monopolies , down to who had the right to rent out ...
... English quart , claret , whisky , West India punch and even , in 1743 , the first speculative ship - load of port.26 The town was a byword for insobriety . Even at the annual meeting of the directors of the Royal Bank , the drinking was ...
... English visitors.33 The older women still wore patches on their faces . Some of the older men still wore swords , though the practice of duelling in the street had abated . The heart of Edinburgh lay round the old cathedral of St Giles ...
... English travellers recalled with a fascinated horror , the tenements were cleared of ordure . With a shout of ... English surveyor sent north in the 1720s to build military roads to pacify the rebellious Highlands , a night in Edinburgh ...
... English . That both men were homicides , if not actual murderers , shows that Edinburgh philosophy still had something of the old Scots ' killing affray ' about it . John Law , the son of a goldsmith , condemned to death in London for ...
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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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