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On Glasgow and Edinburgh /
A mere forty miles apart, these cities have enjoyed a scratchy rivalry since wistful Edinburgh lost parliamentary sovereignty and defiant Glasgow came into its industrial promise. Crawford brings them to life between the covers of one book, in a tale that mixes novelty and familiarity, as Scotland&#...
| Call Number: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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Cambridge, Mass. :
Belknap Press of Harvard University Press,
2013.
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of Contents:
- Edinburgh.
- 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.