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Capital of the Mind

Capital of the Mind

How Edinburgh Changed the World

by James Buchan
Paperback
Publication Date: 29/08/2007
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In the early eighteenth century, Edinburgh was a fi lthy backwater town synonymous with poverty and disease. Yet by the century's end, it had become the marvel of modern Europe, home to some of the fi nest minds of the day and the scene of breathtaking innovations in architecture, politics, economics, science and the arts. Pioneers such as David Hume, Robert Burns, James Hutton, Adam Smith and Sir Walter Scott transformed the way we understand our perceptions and feelings, sickness and health, industry and trade, relations between the sexes, the natural world, and the purpose of existence. In this acclaimed book, 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 changed it utterly.
ISBN:
9781841586397
9781841586397
Category:
Local history
Format:
Paperback
Publication Date:
29-08-2007
Language:
English
Publisher:
Birlinn General
Country of origin:
United Kingdom
Pages:
448
Dimensions (mm):
195x130x32mm
Weight:
0.44kg
James Buchan

James Buchan first visited Iran nearly forty years ago. A student of Persian and Arabic, he was for many years a correspondent of the Financial Times in the Middle East, and later in central Europe and the US.

He has written more than a dozen works of fiction and history including a portrait of Edinburgh in the eighteenth century (Capital of the Mind), a biography of the Scottish philosopher Adam Smith (Adam Smith and the Pursuit of Perfect Liberty) and a philosophy of money (Frozen Desire).

His most recent book is Days of God: The Revolution in Iran and its Consequences. He works a small farm in Norfolk.

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