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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... history .... Buchan knows his material thoroughly and approaches it as a Scotsman . " -Washington Post Book World " A sparkling and cleverly written book .... Edinburgh was the vortex of the intellectual currents that flowed through the ...
... history . " -Publishers Weekly " A lively portrait of the city once called ' the Athens of the north . ' . . . Buchan makes a good argument for its having been a great place to be . " -Kirkus Reviews " A vigorous and entertaining book ...
... History . 3. Edinburgh ( Scotland ) -Intellectual life - 18th century . 4. Scotland - Intellectual life 18th century . I. Title . DA890.E2B83 2003 941.3'407 - dc22 ISBN 0-06-055889 - X ( pbk . ) 04 05 06 07 08 / RRD 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 ...
... history of every polished nation , ' a correspondent wrote to The Scots Magazine in July 1763 , ' there is always one period at least to be found , which is crouded with men of genius in every art and science . This was the case of ...
... history , as John Buchan later put it , than any town its size but Athens , Jerusalem and Rome.44 The religious disputes and civil violence of the seventeenth cen- tury had caused the Lowland Scots to think about the purposes of ...
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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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