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Loading... Crowded with Genius: The Scottish Enlightenment: Edinburgh's Moment of the Mind (original 2003; edition 2003)by James Buchan
Work InformationCrowded With Genius: The Scottish Enlightenment: Edinburgh's Moment of the Mind by James Buchan (2003)
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Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. No current Talk conversations about this book. A very useful overview of the multi-faceted Scottish Enlightenment and the changes it wrought on Edinburgh. I read it in preparation for my first visit to the city, where I'm looking forward to exploring some of the sites covered in Buchan's book. ( ) no reviews | add a review
References to this work on external resources. Wikipedia in English (15)"In the early eighteenth century, Edinburgh was a filthy backwater synonymous with poverty and disease, and recently famous for religious persecution. When this small walled-off city surrendered to a handful of Highlanders in 1745, things had never looked bleaker. Yet by century's end, the ancient Scottish capital had become the marvel of modern Europe, thanks to a group of friends whose trailblazing ingenuity and passion for ideas changed the way all of us look at the world." "In Crowded with Genius, James Buchan, himself a Scot with a strong attachment to this history, 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. Buchan has written an extraordinary account of the movement that turned Edinburgh from a city under siege into a hotbed of brilliant achievements that changed the course of history and gave birth to the modern mind."--BOOK JACKET. No library descriptions found. |
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Google Books — Loading... GenresMelvil Decimal System (DDC)941.3History and Geography Europe British Isles South central ScotlandLC ClassificationRatingAverage:
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