Capital Of The Mind. How Edinburgh Changed The World

Cover Type: Hardcover
Book Condition: Very Good
Jacket Condition: Very Good
Publisher: John Murray
Publisher Place: London
Publisher Year: 2003
Edition: First Edition

Description: 436 pages. Book and Jacket are both in Very good condition throughout.

Publishers Description: 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.

ISBN: 9780719554469