Alan H Balfour

Classical Edinburgh (eBook, ePUB)

A City Divided

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This work is both a family history and a social history of Scotland seen against a city, Edinburgh, acity that to this day is soured by class divisions. In tracing the family back several centuries, the book embeds their lives into the larger forces shaping the Scottish culture, climaxing in the creation of the New Town of Edinburgh - one of the eighteenth and nineteenth century's extravagant romantic fantasies. The New Town produced a reality, shaped by the leaders of the Scottish Enlightenment, which gave identity to a capital of a nation in name only, after the closing of the Scottish parliament with the Union of the Crowns in 1707.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Anthem Press
• Seitenzahl: 364
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. März 2023
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781839987908
• Artikelnr.: 67582755

Autorenporträt

Alan Balfour is an author and architect. His most recent work,The Walls of Jerusalem, Preserving the Past Controlling the Future, was published in 2019.

Inhaltsangabe

Prologue
I Poverty, Filth and Bondage
 II Ambition
 III The New Town of Edinburgh.
 IV The New Society
 V Building Status
 VI The Other New Town
 VII Into The Twentieth Century
 VIII Reflections
VIII Methods and Sources
 Bibliography