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