LEADER 03857nam 2200589 a 450 001 9910463353303321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a0-674-06727-4 024 7 $a10.4159/harvard.9780674067271 035 $a(CKB)2670000000330043 035 $a(StDuBDS)AH25035660 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000819066 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11492408 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000819066 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10844567 035 $a(PQKB)10168409 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3301204 035 $a(DE-B1597)178041 035 $a(OCoLC)819330023 035 $a(OCoLC)840445384 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780674067271 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3301204 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10649623 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000330043 100 $a20120530d2013 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aOn Glasgow and Edinburgh$b[electronic resource] /$fRobert Crawford 210 $aCambridge, Mass. $cBelknap Press of Harvard University Press$d2013 215 $a1 online resource (345 pages ) $cillustrations (black and white), maps (black and white) 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 $a0-674-04888-1 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aEdinburgh. -- The Royal Mile: from the castle to a song -- The Royal Mile: from story to Parliament -- Princes Street Gardens and the New Town -- Hill, Hwa-Wu, and port -- Medicine, museums, blood -- Glasgow. -- City hearts -- Poverty and wealth -- Sauchiehall Street, masterpieces, tenements, and books -- Art, learning, arsenic, and architecture -- Water -- Coda: the Falkirk Wheel. 330 $aEdinburgh and Glasgow enjoy a famously scratchy relationship. Resembling other intercity rivalries throughout the world, from Madrid and Barcelona, to Moscow and St. Petersburg, to Beijing and Shanghai, Scotland's sparring metropolises just happen to be much smaller and closer together-like twin stars orbiting a common axis. Yet their size belies their world-historical importance as cultural and commercial capitals of the British Empire, and the mere forty miles between their city centers does not diminish their stubbornly individual nature. Robert Crawford dares to bring both cities to life between the covers of one book. His story of the fluctuating fortunes of each city is animated by the one-upping that has been entrenched since the eighteenth century, when Edinburgh lost parliamentary sovereignty and took on its proud wistfulness, while Glasgow came into its industrial promise and defiance. Using landmarks and individuals as gateways to their character and past, this tale of two cities mixes novelty and familiarity just as Scotland's capital and its largest city do. Crawford gives us Adam Smith and Walter Scott, the Scottish Enlightenment and the School of Art, but also tiny apartments, a poetry library, Spanish Civil War volunteers, and the nineteenth-century entrepreneur Maria Theresa Short. We see Glasgow's best-known street through the eyes of a Victorian child, and Edinburgh University as it appeared to Charles Darwin. Crawford's literary detailed account affirms what people from Glasgow or Edinburgh have long doubted-that it is possible to love both cities at the same time. 606 $aHISTORY / Europe / Great Britain / General$2bisacsh 607 $aGlasgow (Scotland)$xHistory 607 $aEdinburgh (Scotland)$xHistory 608 $aElectronic books. 615 7$aHISTORY / Europe / Great Britain / General. 676 $a941.3/4 700 $aCrawford$b Robert$f1959-$0168999 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910463353303321 996 $aOn Glasgow and Edinburgh$92455367 997 $aUNINA