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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... London / Agnew & Sons , London ; 3 , 6 , 11 , 13 and 21 , Scottish National Portrait Gallery ; 4 , Private Scottish Collection ; 5 , 7 , 12 , 16 , 17 and 20 , Edinburgh City Libraries ; 8 , National Portrait Gallery , London ; 9 and 15 ...
... London in 1603 , when King James VI succeeded to the 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 ...
... London a week : though there were men alive to tell Sir Walter Scott that once the return mail brought just a single letter for the whole of Scotland . " A stagecoach ran monthly to London , spending at least ten days on the road ...
... London for killing his man in a duel , was forced to flee Scotland at the Union . A visionary financier and theorist of credit , he charmed the bankrupt French monarchy into establishing an ambitious Indies trading company financed ...
... London , where they made little impression.70 The old trade with France was destroyed . Poor harvests aggravated the depres- sion . It was said grass grew round the market crosses.71 The Canongate , the suburbs of the nobility , was a ...
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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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