Capital of the Mind

How Edinburgh Changed the World

James Buchan

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Birlinn Ltd
29 August 2007

History; Local history

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.

By: James Buchan
Imprint: Birlinn Ltd
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 195mm, Width: 130mm, Spine: 32mm
Weight: 440g
ISBN: 9781841586397
ISBN 10: 1841586390
Pages: 448
Publication Date: 29 August 2007
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

James Buchan is a novelist and critic. He is the author of the Persian Bride, a New York Times Notable Book, as well as Frozen Desire, an examination of money that received the Duff Cooper Prize. He has also won the Whitbread First Novel Award and the Guardian Fiction Prize. Buchan is a contributor to The New York Times Book Review and The New York Observer, and a former correspondent for the Financial Times. He lives in Norfolk, England.

Reviews for Capital of the Mind: How Edinburgh Changed the World

'A triumph of fact-based, imaginatively expressed writing' - Magnus Magnusson 'Buchan's confident and astringent study is based on an informed love of Scotland and its stories are told to excellent effect' - Daily Telegraph '[An] elegant portrait of Edinburgh in the age of Enlightenment' - Times Literary Supplement 'As Buchan says in this marvellous book, there is no city like Edinburgh in all the world ' - Sunday Times