كتاب
Capital of the mind: how Edinburgh changed the world
| العنوان: | Capital of the mind: how Edinburgh changed the world |
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| المؤلفون: | Buchan, James |
| بيانات النشر: | London : John Murray, 2003. |
| سنة النشر: | 2003 |
| وصف مادي: | 436 p., [16] p. of plates : ill. (some col.) ; 24 cm. |
| مصطلحات موضوعية: | History. |
| جغرافية الموضوع: | Edinburgh (Scotland) -- Social conditions -- 18th century., Edinburgh (Scotland) -- Intellectual life -- 18th century., Edinburgh (Scotland) -- History -- 18th century. |
| الوصف: | "September 1745 and the walled City of Edinburgh surrenders to a handful of Highlanders in farcical circumstances. Never have things looked bleaker for the ancient capital of Scotland. Yet the next two generations catapult this small, windy and dirty city to the centre of the modern world." "David Hume, Adam Smith, Adam Ferguson, William Cullen and James Hutton transform the way we treat our perceptions and feelings as well as mechanical processes, sickness and health, trade, money, relations between the sexes, the purposes of existence and government. In just fifty years, Edinburgh makes more mental history than any town of its size since the Athens of Socrates. On the hard causeway of the High Street, in high and cramped apartments, surreptitious dancing assemblies and underground taverns, the modern world is born." "How did this come about? How did a notoriously poor, alcoholic, violent and unhygienic town consisting of just two long streets and forty thousand inhabitants make such an impression on its age and on ours? So that Voltaire wrote, with more than a dash of malice, that 'today it is from Scotland that we get rules of taste in all the arts, from epic poetry to gardening'. In an account of exceptionally close focus, James Buchan resurrects the look and feel and smell of eighteenth-century Edinburgh and shows how a succession of disasters demolished old systems of thought and behaviour, and set Edinburgh men and women off in strange new directions. An odd and brilliant civilization comes to life, Capital of the Mind is the indispensable guide to the most beautiful and philosophical city in Europe."--BOOK JACKET. |
| Original Identifier: | ocm52395762 DA890.E2 B84 2003 |
| نوع الوثيقة: | Book |
| اللغة: | English |
| ردمك: | 978-0-7195-5446-9 0-7195-5446-2 |
| حقوق: | This record is part of the Harvard Library Bibliographic Dataset, which is provided by the Harvard Library under its Bibliographic Dataset Use Terms and includes data made available by, among others, OCLC Online Computer Library Center, Inc. and the Library of Congress. |
| ملاحظات: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| رقم الأكسشن: | edshlc.009215718.1 |
| قاعدة البيانات: | Harvard Library Bibliographic Dataset |
| ردمك: | 9780719554469 0719554462 |
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