Capital of the Mind: How Edinburgh Changed the World

Name: Capital of the Mind: How Edinburgh Changed the World
Brand: John Murray
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hardcover – January 1, 2003

by James Buchan

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ISBN-13: 9780719554469 ISBN-10: 0719554462

Publisher

John Murray

Binding

hardcover

Published

January 1, 2003

Weight

1.9 lbs

Dimensions

4.10×24.20×16.20 cm

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Capital of the Mind: How Edinburgh Changed the World by James Buchan. hardcover edition. ISBN: 9780719554469.

How - in the eighteenth century - did a notoriously poor, alcoholic, violent and smelly town, consisting of just two long streets and 40,000 inhabitants, make such an impression on its age and on ours? So that Voltaire wrote with 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 just 50 years Edinburgh had more impact on our ideas than any town of its size since the Athens of Socrates.