Enlightenment in a Smart City: Edinburgh's Civic Development, 1660-1750 - Softcover

Pittock, Murray

 
9781474416603: Enlightenment in a Smart City: Edinburgh's Civic Development, 1660-1750
Softcover
ISBN 10: 1474416608 ISBN 13: 9781474416603
Verlag: EDINBURGH UNIV PR, 2019

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Why did Enlightenment happen in Edinburgh?

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Über die Autorinnen und Autoren

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.



Murray Pittock is Bradley Professor at the University of Glasgow, Pro Vice-Principal and Honorary Scottish History Adviser to the National Trust for Scotland. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, the Royal Historical Society and the English Association and a prize lecturer of both the RSE and the British Academy. He has held senior appointments at the universities of Strathclyde, Edinburgh and Manchester, and visiting appointments in history and literature globally at universities including Yale, Trinity College, Dublin, New York University and Charles University, Prague. Recent publications include The Scots Musical Museum (2 vols, 2018); Culloden (2016) and Material Culture and Sedition (2013). His current projects include The Collected Works of Allan Ramsay (funded by the AHRC, 2018-23), The Scottish Heritage Partnership (on VR and Immersive design and procurement, funded by EPSRC-AHRC) and Robert Burns and the Scottish Economy (funded by Scottish Government).

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*APPROVED & CHECKED*Why did Enlightenment happen in Edinburgh?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.Murray Pittock is a leading international scholar of the British Isles in the long eighteenth century, and the author or editor of over twenty books, including Culloden (2016), Material Culture and Sedition (2013) and The Myth of the Jacobite Clans (Edinburgh University Press, 2009). He is also the General Editor of the Edinburgh Edition of the Works of Allan Ramsay.

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*APPROVED & CHECKED*Why did Enlightenment happen in Edinburgh?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.Murray Pittock is a leading international scholar of the British Isles in the long eighteenth century, and the author or editor of over twenty books, including Culloden (2016), Material Culture and Sedition (2013) and The Myth of the Jacobite Clans (Edinburgh University Press, 2009). He is also the General Editor of the Edinburgh Edition of the Works of Allan Ramsay.

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Verlag
EDINBURGH UNIV PR
Erscheinungsdatum
2019
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
1474416608
ISBN 13 
9781474416603
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288
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