Balfour Alan H
Balfour Alan H - Classical Edinburgh A City Divided - Hardcover
Balfour Alan H - Classical Edinburgh A City Divided - Hardcover
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Description: This work is both a family history and a social history of Scotland seen against a city Edinburgh acity that to this day is soured by class divisions. In tracing the family back several centuries the book embeds their lives into the larger forces shaping the Scottish culture climaxing in the creation of the New Town of Edinburgh one of the eighteenth and nineteenth century's extravagant romantic fantasies. The New Town produced a reality shaped by the leaders of the Scottish Enlightenment which gave identity to a capital of a nation in name only after the closing of the Scottish parliament with the Union of the Crowns in 1707.
Title: Classical Edinburgh A City Divided
Author(s): Balfour Alan H
Publisher: Anthem Press
Barcode: 9781839987892
Pages: 364 Pages
Publication Date: 3/14/2023
Category: History
Description: This work is both a family history and a social history of Scotland seen against a city Edinburgh acity that to this day is soured by class divisions. In tracing the family back several centuries the book embeds their lives into the larger forces shaping the Scottish culture climaxing in the creation of the New Town of Edinburgh one of the eighteenth and nineteenth century's extravagant romantic fantasies. The New Town produced a reality shaped by the leaders of the Scottish Enlightenment which gave identity to a capital of a nation in name only after the closing of the Scottish parliament with the Union of the Crowns in 1707.
Title: Classical Edinburgh A City Divided
Author(s): Balfour Alan H
Publisher: Anthem Press
Barcode: 9781839987892
Pages: 364 Pages
Publication Date: 3/14/2023
Category: History
