Author: Anthony LewisPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 192
Book Description
The Builders of Edinburgh New Town
Author: Anthony LewisThe Builders of Edinburgh New Town 1767-1795
Author: Anthony Lewis (Curator of Scottish history)Publisher: Fleming H. Revell Company
ISBN: 9781904965480
Category : Architects and builders
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Anthony Lewis tells the story of the little-known heroes - the tradesmen and builders - behind the beautiful architecture of Edinburgh New Town.
The Builders of Edinburgh's New Town, 1767-1795
Author: Anthony Richard LewisEdinburgh New Town
Author: Michael CarleyPublisher: Amberley Publishing Limited
ISBN: 1445639599
Category : Photography
Languages : en
Pages : 353
Book Description
A beautifuly illustrated celebration of one of Europe’s finest neoclassical neighbourhoods: a triumph of town planning and the heart of a vibrant, thriving capital city.
Building Early Modern Edinburgh
Author: Aaron AllenPublisher: Edinburgh University Press
ISBN: 1474442412
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 428
Book Description
A comprehensive history of the provincial administrative and judiciary structure in Ottoman-governed Bulgaria
The Geographies of Enlightenment Edinburgh
Author: Phil DoddsPublisher: Boydell & Brewer
ISBN: 1783277033
Category : Edinburgh (Scotland)
Languages : en
Pages : 381
Book Description
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.
Proceedings of the First Conference of the Construction History Society
Author: James CampbellPublisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 0992875102
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 508
Book Description
The proceedings of the first conference of the Construction History Society, which took place on 11 and 12 April 2014 at Queens' College, Cambridge, featuring 48 peer-reviewed papers covering a wide variety of subjects on the theme of construction history.
The Correspondence of James Boswell and Sir William Forbes of Pitsligo
Author: James BoswellPublisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 030025038X
Category : Authors, Scottish
Languages : en
Pages : 562
Book Description
This volume, tenth in the Research Correspondence Series of the Yale Editions of the Private Papers of James Boswell, documents the long friendship between Boswell and Sir William Forbes This volume, tenth in the Research Correspondence Series of the Yale Editions of the Private Papers of James Boswell, collects the letters exchanged between lawyer, diarist, and biographer James Boswell and Sir William Forbes of Pitsligo, eminent Scottish banker, civic improver, philanthropist, literary and cultural patron, and lay leader of Edinburgh's "English Episcopal" community. Forbes served as Boswell's most valued Scottish advisor, to whom he would often turn for personal, financial, moral, and religious guidance, and whom he would name executor of his estate and co-guardian of his children. The volume includes a total of 111 comprehensively annotated letters, few of which have appeared previously in print, between Forbes and Boswell and other correspondents. It illuminates in particular the period in which Boswell moved from Edinburgh to London and wrote his major books, The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides with Samuel Johnson and The Life of Samuel Johnson.
Building reputations
Author: Conor LuceyPublisher: Manchester University Press
ISBN: 152611996X
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 411
Book Description
Taking a cue from revisionist scholarship on early modern vernacular architectures and their relationship to the classical canon, this book rehabilitates the reputations of a representative if misunderstood building typology – the eighteenth-century brick terraced house – and the artisan communities of bricklayers, carpenters and plasterers responsible for its design and construction. Opening with a cultural history of the building tradesman in terms of his reception within contemporary architectural discourse, chapters consider the design, decoration and marketing of the town house in the principal cities of the eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century British Atlantic world. The book is essential reading for students and scholars of the history of architectural design and interior decoration specifically, and of eighteenth-century society and culture generally.
Author: Christine De Luca