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Enlightenment in a smart city : Edinburgh's civic development, 1660-1750 / Murray Pittock.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Pittock, Murray, author.
- Series:
- Edinburgh scholarship online.
- Edinburgh Scholarship Online
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Enlightenment--Scotland--Edinburgh.
- Enlightenment.
- Edinburgh (Scotland)--History--17th century.
- Edinburgh (Scotland).
- Edinburgh (Scotland)--History--18th century.
- Edinburgh (Scotland)--Intellectual life--17th century.
- Edinburgh (Scotland)--Intellectual life--18th century.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (ix, 285 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).
- Place of Publication:
- Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, 2019.
- Summary:
- This 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.
- Contents:
- Remembering and Inventing Enlightenment
- Edinburgh and the Canongate 1660-1750 : communications, networks, the routers of change
- Trades and Professions
- The Arts
- Taverns, associations and Freemasonry
- Booksellers, newspapers and libraries.
- Notes:
- Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 27 Apr 2021).
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-4744-1662-4
- 1-4744-5988-9
- 1-4744-1661-6
- OCLC:
- 1245846119
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