Capital of the Mind How Edinburgh Changed the World

In the early 18th 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 economies - all of which continues 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. James Buchan beautifully reconstructs the intimate geographic scale and boundless intellectual milieu of Enlightenment Edinburgh. With the scholarship of an 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.

ISBN:	9781841586397
Publisher:	Birlinn Ltd
Imprint:	Birlinn
Published date:	29 Aug 2007
DEWEY:	941.3407
DEWEY edition:	23
Language:	English
Number of pages:	436
Weight:	442g
Height:	196mm
Width:	132mm
Spine width:	29mm

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