Buch, Englisch, Band 11, 384 Seiten, Print PDF, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 708 g
Buch, Englisch, Band 11, 384 Seiten, Print PDF, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 708 g
Reihe: Studies in the Eighteenth Century
ISBN: 978-1-78327-703-2
Verlag: Boydell & Brewer
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.
Edinburgh was an Enlightenment city of regional, national and global influence. But how did the people of Enlightenment Edinburgh understand and order their world? How did they encounter, compare and produce different kinds of spaces, from the urban to the world scale? And how did this city set the universal standards by which other places should be judged and transformed?
The Geographies of Enlightenment Edinburgh answers these questions by exploring the thousands of urban plans, county surveys, travel accounts and encyclopaedias that passed through a busy Edinburgh bookshop over four decades. It reveals how these geographical publications were produced and shared, and sheds light on the people who bought and used them - including moral philosophers, silk merchants, school teachers, ship's surgeons and slave owners.
This is the story of how specific methods of mapping space came ultimately to predict and organize it, creating a new world in Edinburgh's image. By connecting global processes of knowledge production to intimate accounts of its reception in the city, this book deepens our understanding of the Scottish Enlightenment and the world it made.
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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
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