Enlightenment in a Smart City: Edinburgh's Civic Development, 1660-1750 by Pittock, Murray

Enlightenment in a Smart City: Edinburgh's Civic Development, 1660-1750 (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781474416597)

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Enlightenment in a Smart City: Edinburgh's Civic Development, 1660-1750 by Pittock, Murray

Enlightenment in a Smart City: Edinburgh's Civic Development, 1660-1750

$120.00
Enlightenment in a Smart City: Edinburgh's Civic Development, 1660-1750 by Pittock, Murray

Enlightenment in a Smart City: Edinburgh's Civic Development, 1660-1750

$120.00
Format: Hardcover
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Defines what we mean by 'Enlightenment' in general and 'Scottish Enlightenment' in particular. Uses modern innovation and smart city theory to understand Edinburgh in 1700. Identifies the cosmopolitan nature of Enlightenment Edinburgh. Identifies Edinburgh 'firsts' and early innovationsThis is a study of Enlightenment in Edinburgh like no other. Using data and models provided by urban studies theory, it pinpoints the distinctive features that made Enlightenment in the Scottish capital possible. In a journey packed with evidence and incident, it explores various civic networks such as the newspaper and printing businesses, the political power of the gentry as well as the pub and coffee house life, as drivers of cultural change. The analysis reveals that the attributes of civic development, which lead to innovation and dynamism, were at the heart of what made Edinburgh special in 1700 and what makes it smart today.

Author: Murray Pittock
ISBN-10: 1474416594
ISBN-13: 9781474416597
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Language: English
Published: 12/04/2018
Pages: 296
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.00lbs
Size: 8.60h x 5.60w x 0.80d
By Murray Pittock
By Murray Pittock
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Murray Pittock MAE FRSE is Bradley Professor and Pro Vice-Principal at the University of Glasgow, and Scotland's leading cultural historian. A prizewinner of the Royal Society of Edinburgh and the British Academy, he has held visiting appointments or spoken at the universities of UC Berkeley, Boston, Cambridge, Chicago, Columbia, Harvard, UCL, New York University, Notre Dame, Oslo, Oxford, the Sorbonne, Virginia, Yale, Gresham College, the British Academy, The British Museum, Hampton Court, the Smithsonian, the House of Commons and many other locations. He is the General Editor of the Collected Works of Allan Ramsay.

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