Dr Phil Dodds

The Geographies of Enlightenment Edinburgh

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Produktbeschreibung

This innovative book explores how the making of Edinburgh as an influential Enlightenment capital depended on a series of spatial processes that extended across urban, regional, national and global scales.

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Produktdetails

• Studies in the Eighteenth Century
• Verlag: Boydell & Brewer Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 384
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. Mai 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 162mm x 240mm x 32mm
• Gewicht: 914g
• ISBN-13: 9781783277032
• ISBN-10: 1783277033
• Artikelnr.: 63153297

Autorenporträt

PHIL DODDS is a researcher in the Department of Arts and Cultural Sciences at Lund University, Sweden.

Inhaltsangabe

List of Illustrations Acknowledgements INTRODUCTION: Mapping Enlightenment
from an Edinburgh Bookshop I PLANNING: EDINBURGH AND THE NEW TOWN 1.
Projecting: Cadastral Mapping and the Genesis of the New Town 2. Combining:
Mapping Old, New and Soon 3. Dividing: Properties of the Plan Beyond 4.
Extending: Progress and the Enlightenment Capital II SURVEYING: EDINBURGH
AND ITS ENVIRONS 5. Counting: Political Arithmetic in the Parish of Cramond
6. Generalising: County Connections and Enclosures 7. Overviewing: Distant
Perspectives in the Borders 8. Subscribing: Patronising Surveys and
Provincial Libraries III TRAVELLING: EDINBURGH AND THE NATION 9. Piecing:
Pre- and Post-Tour Epistles for Thomas Pennant's Scotland 10. Improving:
Robert Heron's Journey through the Commerce of Print 11. Moving: Sarah
Murray and her Travelling Readers 12. Trading: Routes in Scotland IV
COMPILING: EDINBURGH AND THE WORLD 13. Summarising: Global Knowledge in an
Elite High School 14. Supplementing: The Encyclopædia Britannica's Sources
15. Accessioning: The Family Collection 16. Institutionalising: Edinburgh
Medical Students and Surgeons' Societies in the Nineteenth-Century World
CONCLUSION: Universalising Enlightenment Edinburgh Bibliography Index