Enlightenment in a Smart City

Edinburgh's Civic Development, 1660-1750

Inbunden, Engelska, 2018

AvMurray Pittock

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This is a study of Enlightenment in Edinburgh like no other. Using data and models provided by urban innovation and Smart City theory, it pinpoints the distinctive features that made Enlightenment in the Scottish capital possible. In a journey packed with evidence and incident, Murray Pittock explores various civic networks – such as the newspaper and printing businesses, the political power of the gentry and patronage networks, as well as the pub and coffee-house life – as drivers of cultural change. His analysis reveals that the attributes of civic development, which lead to innovation and dynamism, were at the heart of what made Edinburgh a smart city of 1700.

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Utgivningsdatum2018-12-04
Mått138 x 216 x 19 mm
Vikt478 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor296
FörlagEdinburgh University Press
ISBN9781474416597

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Murray Pittock MAE FRSE is Bradley Professor and Pro Vice-Principal at the University of Glasgow, and Scotland’s leading cultural historian. A prizewinner of the Royal Society of Edinburgh and the British Academy, he has held visiting appointments or spoken at the universities of UC Berkeley, Boston, Cambridge, Chicago, Columbia, Harvard, UCL, New York University, Notre Dame, Oslo, Oxford, the Sorbonne, Virginia, Yale, Gresham College, the British Academy, The British Museum, Hampton Court, the Smithsonian, the House of Commons and many other locations. He is the General Editor of the Collected Works of Allan Ramsay.

The book offers such an all-encompassing, interdisciplinary narrative that there is something here for everyone. In scale and price, this is an introduction for both general readers and academics - a must for every tea table (or should that be desktop?). Title and text use contemporary terms such as smart, connectivity, router, and node presenting the development of Edinburgh in terms of modern communications systems... If an Edinburgh museum or gallery should ever wish to display the Enlightenment, the scholarship in this book and its author's deep knowledge of the subject would provide a platform from which to immerse visitors.