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On Glasgow and Edinburgh (Paperback)
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On Glasgow and Edinburgh (Paperback)
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Edinburgh 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 lively account, drawing on a wealth of
historical and literary sources, affirms what people from Glasgow
and Edinburgh have long doubted-that it is possible to love both
cities at the same time.
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