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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... Jacobite scholar - printers Thomas and Walter Ruddiman produced pioneering editions of the Scots Renaissance Latinists George Buchanan and Gavin Douglas before the Fifteen , and of Allan Ramsay senior's verses in the 1720s.51 Under ...
... Jacobite . The Union of 1707 took Edinburgh unawares , and crippled her . Daniel Defoe , who worked tirelessly as a government agent in Edinburgh to promote the Union of the Parliaments , watched in disgust as a common loathing of Union ...
... Jacobite court in exile . According to Lockhart , people became daily more persuaded that ' nothing but the Restoration of the Royal Family , and that by the means of Scotsmen , could restore them to their Rights . " 72 Even Andrew ...
... Jacobite court at St - Germain - en - Laye near Paris.74 Porteous's Affair , as the riot came to be known , exposed for an instant not only the dis- content among the unfranchised smithies and shopkeepers of the West Bow but the ...
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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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