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Author Buchan, James.

Title Crowded with genius : the Scottish enlightenment : Edinburgh's moment of the mind / James Buchan.

Publication Info. New York : HarperCollins, [2003]
©2003

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Location Call No. Status
 Burlington Public Library - Adult Department  941.3 BUC    DUE 05-09-24
 West Hartford, Noah Webster Library - Non Fiction  941.3407 BUCHAN    Check Shelf
Edition First edition.
Description xi, 436 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
Note "First published in Great Britain in 2003 as Capital of the mind : how Edinburgh changed the world by John Murray (Publishers)"--Title page verso.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 341-414) and index.
Summary Discusses the key events and individuals of eighteenth-century Edinburgh's transition from a poverty-stricken, religiously fanatical city to a hotspot of innovation and culture.
Contents Auld Reekie -- Charlie's Year -- The Disease of the Learned -- The Philosopher's Opera -- Smaller Joys from Less Important Causes -- The Thermometer of the Heart -- Torrents of Wind -- The Savage and the Shopkeeper -- The Art of Dancing -- Earth to Earth -- The Man of Feeling.
Subject Enlightenment -- Scotland -- Edinburgh.
Edinburgh (Scotland) -- History.
Edinburgh (Scotland) -- Intellectual life -- 18th century.
Scotland -- Intellectual life -- 18th century.
Enlightenment. (OCoLC)fst00912527
Intellectual life. (OCoLC)fst00975769
Scotland. (OCoLC)fst01206715
Scotland -- Edinburgh. (OCoLC)fst01205145
Chronological Term 1700-1799
Genre/Form History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
ISBN 0060558881 (acid-free paper)
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