Capital of the Mind: How Edinburgh Changed the World by James Buchan

Capital of the Mind: How Edinburgh Changed the World

James Buchan

436 pages first pub 2003 (editions)

nonfiction history philosophy informative reflective medium-paced
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How did a notoriously poor, alcoholic, violent and smelly town, consisting of 40,000 inhabitants, make such an impression on its age and on ours? So that Voltaire wrote, with more than a dash of malice that 'today it is from Scotland that we get r...

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