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Book Synopsis A Dance Called America by : James Hunter
Download or read book A Dance Called America written by James Hunter and published by Birlinn Ltd. This book was released on 2022-05-05 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A dance was devised in eighteenth-century Skye. An exhilarating dance. A dance, a visitor reports, 'the emigration from Skye has occasioned'. The visitor asks for the dance's name. 'They call it America,' he's told. In his introduction to this new edition of his classic and pioneering account of what happened to the thousands of people who left Skye and the wider north of Scotland to make new lives across the sea, historian James Hunter reflects on what led him to embark on travels and researches that took him across a continent. To Georgia, North Carolina and Montana; to Nova Scotia, Quebec, Ontario and the Mohawk Valley; to prairie farms and great cities; to the Rocky Mountains, British Columbia and Washington State. This is the story of the Highland impact on the New World. The story of how soldiers, explorers, guerrilla fighters, fur traders, lumberjacks, railway builders and settlers from Scotland's glens and islands contributed so much to the USA and Canada. It is the story of how a hard-pressed people found in North America a land of opportunity.
Book Synopsis The Highland Bagpipe by : Dr Joshua Dickson
Download or read book The Highland Bagpipe written by Dr Joshua Dickson and published by Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.. This book was released on 2013-02-28 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Highland bagpipe, widely considered 'Scotland's national instrument', is one of the most recognized icons of traditional music in the world. It is also among the least understood. But Scottish bagpipe music and tradition - particularly, but not exclusively, the Highland bagpipe - has enjoyed an unprecedented surge in public visibility and scholarly attention since the 1990s. A greater interest in the emic led to a diverse picture of the meaning and musical iconicism of the bagpipe in communities in Scotland and throughout the Scottish diaspora. This interest has led to the consideration of both the globalization of Highland piping and piping as rooted in local culture. It has given rise to a reappraisal of sources which have hitherto formed the backbone of long-standing historical and performative assumptions. And revivalist research which reassesses Highland piping's cultural position relative to other Scottish piping traditions, such as that of the Lowlands and Borders, today effectively challenges the notion of the Highland bagpipe as Scotland's 'national' instrument. The Highland Bagpipe provides an unprecedented insight into the current state of Scottish piping studies. The contributors – from Scotland, England, Canada and the United States – discuss the bagpipe in oral and written history, anthropology, ethnography, musicology, material culture and modal aesthetics. The book will appeal to ethnomusicologists, anthropologists, as well as those interested in international bagpipe studies and traditions.
Book Synopsis Guide to the Highlands and Islands of Scotland Including Orkney and Zetland by : George Anderson
Download or read book Guide to the Highlands and Islands of Scotland Including Orkney and Zetland written by George Anderson and published by . This book was released on 1851 with total page 842 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Guide to the highlands and islands of Scotland, including Orkney and Zetland, by G. and P. Anderson by : George Anderson (of Inverness.)
Download or read book Guide to the highlands and islands of Scotland, including Orkney and Zetland, by G. and P. Anderson written by George Anderson (of Inverness.) and published by . This book was released on 1842 with total page 750 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Guide to the Highlands and Islands of Scotland including Orkney and Zetland. With a map by : George Anderson (of Inverness)
Download or read book Guide to the Highlands and Islands of Scotland including Orkney and Zetland. With a map written by George Anderson (of Inverness) and published by . This book was released on 1842 with total page 752 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Origins of the Forty-five and Other Papers Relating to that Rising by : Walter Biggar Blaikie
Download or read book Origins of the Forty-five and Other Papers Relating to that Rising written by Walter Biggar Blaikie and published by Library of Alexandria. This book was released on 2008-01-01 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: James II. and VII. died on 5th September 1701 (16th Sept. N.S.), and immediately on his death LouisXIV. acknowledged his son as king, and promised to further his interests to the best of his power. The first opportunity of putting the altruistic intention of the King of France into operation occurred within a year of King James’s death, and the evil genius of the project was Simon Fraser, the notorious Lord Lovat. Lovat, whose scandalous conduct had shocked the people of Scotland, was outlawed by the courts for a criminal outrage, and fled to France in the summer of 1702. There, in spite of the character he bore, he so ingratiated himself with the papal nuncio that he obtained a private audience with Louis XIV., an honour unprecedented for a foreigner. To him he unfolded a scheme for a Stuart Restoration. He had, he said, before leaving Scotland visited the principal chiefs of the Highland clans and a great number of the lords of the Lowlands along with the Earl Marischal. They were ready to take up arms and hazard their lives and fortunes for the Stuart cause, and had given him a commission to represent them in France. The foundation of his scheme was to rely on the Highlanders. They were the only inhabitants of Great Britain who had retained the habit of the use of arms, and they were ready to act at once. Lord Middleton and the Lowland Jacobites sneered at them as mere banditti and cattle-stealers, but Lovat knew that they, with an instinctive love of fighting, were capable of being formed into efficient and very hardy soldiers. He proposed that the King of France should furnish a force of 5000 French soldiers, 100,000 crowns in money, and arms and equipment for 20,000 men. The main body of troops would land at Dundee where it would be near the central Highlands, and a detachment would be sent to western Invernessshire, with the object of capturing Fort William, which overawed the western clans. The design was an excellent one, and was approved by King Louis. But before putting it into execution the ministry sent Lovat back to obtain further information, and with him they sent John Murray, a naturalised Frenchman, brother of the laird of Abercairney, who was to check Lovat’s reports. It is characteristic of the state of the exiled Court, that it was rent with discord, and that Lord Middleton, Jacobite Secretary of State, who hated Lovat, privately sent emissaries of his own to spy on him and to blight his prospects. Lovat duly arrived in Scotland, but the history of his mission is pitiful and humiliating. He betrayed the project to the Duke of Queensberry, Queen Anne’s High Commissioner to the Scots Estates, and, by falsely suggesting the treason of Queensberry’s political enemies, the Dukes of Hamilton and Atholl, befooled that functionary into granting him a safe conduct to protect him from arrest for outlawry.
Book Synopsis ([Map of Central and South Scotland] by : Sidney Hall
Download or read book ([Map of Central and South Scotland] written by Sidney Hall and published by . This book was released on 1863 with total page 926 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Sisters of Fortune by : Jehanne Wake
Download or read book Sisters of Fortune written by Jehanne Wake and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2012-02-28 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first American heiresses took Britain by storm in 1816, two generations before the great late Victorian beauties. Marianne, Louisa, Emily and Bess Caton were descended from the first settlers in Maryland, and brought up in Baltimore by their grandfather Charles Carroll, one of the Signers of the Declaration of Independence.
Book Synopsis Publications of the Scottish History Society by : Scottish History Society
Download or read book Publications of the Scottish History Society written by Scottish History Society and published by . This book was released on 1908 with total page 492 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Chiefs of Grant by : Sir William Fraser
Download or read book The Chiefs of Grant written by Sir William Fraser and published by . This book was released on 1883 with total page 622 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Tait's Edinburgh Magazine by : William Tait
Download or read book Tait's Edinburgh Magazine written by William Tait and published by . This book was released on 1836 with total page 834 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis A History of the County of Inverness (Mainland) by : James Cameron Lees
Download or read book A History of the County of Inverness (Mainland) written by James Cameron Lees and published by . This book was released on 1897 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Maps on two folded leaves in pockets. Library's copy lacks one map.
Book Synopsis A Country Called Stratherrick by : Alan Bayne Lawson
Download or read book A Country Called Stratherrick written by Alan Bayne Lawson and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Papers on Peter May, Land Surveyor, 1749-1793 by : Ian H. Adams
Download or read book Papers on Peter May, Land Surveyor, 1749-1793 written by Ian H. Adams and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Peter May (d.1795) was probably the son of James May (1676-1778) and was the brother of James May (d.1803).
Book Synopsis The Statistical Account of Scotland by : Sir John Sinclair
Download or read book The Statistical Account of Scotland written by Sir John Sinclair and published by . This book was released on 1798 with total page 756 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The County Histories of Scotland by :
Download or read book The County Histories of Scotland written by and published by . This book was released on 1897 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis J.B. Priestley's Fiction by : Holger Klein
Download or read book J.B. Priestley's Fiction written by Holger Klein and published by Peter Lang Publishing. This book was released on 2002 with total page 812 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With around thirty novels, J.B. Priestley is a major twentieth-century novelist. His reputation as a dramatist, essayist and general man of letters has tended to obscure his solid and highly interesting achievement as a novelist. This monograph is the first to be wholly devoted to Priestley's novels and short stories, organised in large groups determined by theme and attitude, while not neglecting his narrative technique. The middle decades of the twentieth century, which he has helped to shape, come alive in this tracing of their fictional recreation by Priestley. Contents: Introduction -- Escape -- People and work -- The past and the present -- Shades of gothic -- Dimensions of crime -- Visions and fantasies -- Rebellion and commitment -- Subversion and disengagement -- Retrospect: lines of development.
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