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A Dance Called America

Author : James Hunter
Publisher : Birlinn Ltd
ISBN 13 : 0857907751
Total Pages : 412 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (579 download)

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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.

Britannia's Children

Author : Eric Richards
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 9781852854416
Total Pages : 420 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (544 download)

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Download or read book Britannia's Children written by Eric Richards and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2004-05-14 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The stories behind the mass exodus from Great Brittan from 1600 to modern times

Last of the Free

Author : James Hunter
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 1780570066
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (85 download)

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Download or read book Last of the Free written by James Hunter and published by Random House. This book was released on 2011-03-25 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written by award-winning Scottish historian James Hunter, this groundbreaking and definitive account reveals how the Highlands and Islands of Scotland have evolved from a centre of European significance to a Scottish outpost. Never before has the history of the region been recounted so comprehensively and in so much fascinating, often moving, detail. But this book is not simply the story of humanity's millennia-long involvement with one of the world's most spectacular localities. It is also a major contribution to present-day debate about how Scotland, and Britain, should be organised.

Everynight Life

Author : José Esteban Muñoz
Publisher : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780822319191
Total Pages : 380 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (191 download)

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Download or read book Everynight Life written by José Esteban Muñoz and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 1997 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The function of dance in Latin/o American culture is the focus of the essays collected in Everynight Life. The contributors interpret how Latin/o culture expresses itself through dance, approaching the material from the varying perspectives of literary, cultural, dance, performance, queer, and feminist studies. Viewing dance as privileged sites of identity formation and cultural resistance in Latin/o America, Everynight Life translates the motion of bodies into speech, and the gestures of dance into a provocative socio-political grammar. This anthology looks at many modes of dance--including salsa, merengue, cumbia, rumba, mambo, tango, samba, and norteño--as models for the interplay of cultural memory and regional conflict. Barbara Browning's essay on capoeira, for instance, demonstrates how dance has been used as a literal form of resistance, while José Piedra explores the meanings conveyed by women of color dancing the rumba. Pieces such as Gustavo Perez Fírmat's "I Came, I Saw, I Conga'd" and Jorge Salessi's "Medics, Crooks, and Tango Queens" illustrate the lively scope of this volume's subject matter. Contributors. Barbara Browning, Celeste Fraser Delgado, Jane C. Desmond, Mayra Santos Febres, Juan Carlos Quintero Herencia, Josh Kun, Ana M. López, José Esteban Muñoz, José Piedra, Gustavo Perez Fírmat, Augusto C. Puleo, David Román, Jorge Salessi, Alberto Sandoval

Lost in the Backwoods

Author : Jenni Calder
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
ISBN 13 : 0748647406
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (486 download)

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Download or read book Lost in the Backwoods written by Jenni Calder and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2013-05-14 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How the American wilderness shaped Scottish experience, imagination and identity. How is the Scottish imagination shaped by its emigre experience with wilderness and the extreme? Drawing on journals, emigrant guides, memoirs, letters, poetry and fiction, this book examines patterns of survival, defeat, adaptation and response in North America's harshest landscapes. Most Scots who crossed the Atlantic in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries encountered the practical, moral and cultural challenges of the wilderness, with its many tensions and contradictions. Jenni Calder explores the effect of these experiences on the Scots imagination. Associated with displacement and disappearance, the 'wilderness' was also a source of adventure and redemption, of exploitation and spiritual regeneration, of freedom and restriction. An arena of greed, cruelty and cannibalism, of courage, generosity and mutual understanding, it brought out the best and the worst of humanity. Did the Scots who emigrated exchange one extreme for another, or did they discover a new idea of identity, freedom and landscape?

The People's Clearance

Author : J.M. Bumsted
Publisher : Univ. of Manitoba Press
ISBN 13 : 0887550657
Total Pages : 329 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (875 download)

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Download or read book The People's Clearance written by J.M. Bumsted and published by Univ. of Manitoba Press. This book was released on 1982-01-15 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a revisionist account of Highland Scottish emigration to what is now Canada, in the formative half century before Waterloo.

Scottish Society, 1707-1830

Author : Christopher A. Whatley
Publisher : Manchester University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780719045417
Total Pages : 372 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (454 download)

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Download or read book Scottish Society, 1707-1830 written by Christopher A. Whatley and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book challenges conventional wisdom and provides new insights into Scottish social and economic history. Christopher A. Whatley argues that the Union of 1707 was vital for Scottish success, but in ways which have hitherto been overlooked. He proposes that the central place of Jacobitism in the historiography of the period should be revised. Comprehensive in its coverage, the book is based not only on an exhaustive reading of secondary material but also incorporates a wealth of new evidence from previously little-used or unused primary sources.

War Paths

Author : Alistair Moffat
Publisher : Birlinn Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1788855876
Total Pages : 261 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (888 download)

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Download or read book War Paths written by Alistair Moffat and published by Birlinn Ltd. This book was released on 2023-08-03 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Acclaimed historian Alistair Moffat sets off in the footsteps of the Highland clans. In twelve journeys he explores places of conflict, recreating as he walks the tumult of battle. As he recounts the military prowess of the clans – surely the most feared fighting men in western Europe – he also speaks of their lives, their language and culture before it was all swept away. The disaster at Culloden in 1746 represented not just the defeat of the Jacobite dream but also the unleashing of merciless retribution from the British government which dealt the Highland clans a blow from which they would never recover. From the colonisers who attempted to 'civilise' the islanders of Lewis in the sixteenth century through the great battles of the eighteenth century – Killiekrankie, Dunkeld, Sheriffmuir, Falkirk and Culloden – this is a unique exploration of many of the places and events which define a country's history. Locations included are: Prestonpans • Glenfinnan • The Isle of Lewis • Edinburgh • Inverlochy • Tippermuir • Mulroy • Killiecrankie • Dunkeld • Sherriffmuir • Falkirk • Culloden Moor • Arisaig & Morar

Go Ahead in the Rain

Author : Hanif Abdurraqib
Publisher : University of Texas Press
ISBN 13 : 1477318445
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (773 download)

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Download or read book Go Ahead in the Rain written by Hanif Abdurraqib and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2019-02-01 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A New York Times Best Seller A February IndieNext Pick Named A Most Anticipated Book of 2019 by Buzzfeed, Nylon, The A. V. Club, CBC Books, and The Rumpus. And a Winter's Most Anticipated Book by Vanity Fair and The Week Starred Reviews: Kirkus and Booklist "Warm, immediate and intensely personal."—New York Times How does one pay homage to A Tribe Called Quest? The seminal rap group brought jazz into the genre, resurrecting timeless rhythms to create masterpieces such as The Low End Theory and Midnight Marauders. Seventeen years after their last album, they resurrected themselves with an intense, socially conscious record, We Got It from Here . . . Thank You 4 Your Service, which arrived when fans needed it most, in the aftermath of the 2016 election. Poet and essayist Hanif Abdurraqib digs into the group’s history and draws from his own experience to reflect on how its distinctive sound resonated among fans like himself. The result is as ambitious and genre-bending as the rap group itself. Abdurraqib traces the Tribe's creative career, from their early days as part of the Afrocentric rap collective known as the Native Tongues, through their first three classic albums, to their eventual breakup and long hiatus. Their work is placed in the context of the broader rap landscape of the 1990s, one upended by sampling laws that forced a reinvention in production methods, the East Coast–West Coast rivalry that threatened to destroy the genre, and some record labels’ shift from focusing on groups to individual MCs. Throughout the narrative Abdurraqib connects the music and cultural history to their street-level impact. Whether he’s remembering The Source magazine cover announcing the Tribe’s 1998 breakup or writing personal letters to the group after bandmate Phife Dawg’s death, Abdurraqib seeks the deeper truths of A Tribe Called Quest; truths that—like the low end, the bass—are not simply heard in the head, but felt in the chest.

Scotland: A History from Earliest Times

Author : Alistair Moffat
Publisher : Birlinn
ISBN 13 : 085790874X
Total Pages : 561 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (579 download)

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Download or read book Scotland: A History from Earliest Times written by Alistair Moffat and published by Birlinn. This book was released on 2015-09-22 with total page 561 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book, Alistair Moffat brings vividly to life the story of this great nation, from the dawn of prehistory through to the twenty-first century. Ambitious, richly detailed and highly readable, Scotland: A History From Earliest Times skilfully weaves together a dazzling array of fact and anecdote from a vast range of sources. The result is an imaginative, informative, balanced and varied portrait of Scotland, seen not just through the experience of the kings, saints, warriors, aristocrats and politicians who populate the pages of conventional history books, but also through that of ordinary people who have lived Scotland's history and have played their own important part in shaping its destiny.

History of the New World Called America: book I. Discovery. book II. Aboriginal America

Author : Edward John Payne
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 648 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)

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Download or read book History of the New World Called America: book I. Discovery. book II. Aboriginal America written by Edward John Payne and published by . This book was released on 1892 with total page 648 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

To The Hebrides

Author : Samuel Johnson
Publisher : Birlinn
ISBN 13 : 0857905163
Total Pages : 609 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (579 download)

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Download or read book To The Hebrides written by Samuel Johnson and published by Birlinn. This book was released on 2012-09-28 with total page 609 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Samuel Johnson's Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland and James Boswell's Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides are widely regarded as among the best pieces of travel writing ever produced. Johnson and Boswell spent the autumn of 1773 touring Scotland as far west as the islands of Skye, Raasay, Coll, Mull, Ulva, Inchkenneth and Iona. Highly readable, often profound, and at times very funny, their accounts of the 'jaunt' are above all a valuable record of a society undergoing rapid change. In this pioneering new edition, Ronald Black brings together the two men's starkly contrasting accounts of each of the thirteen stages of the journey. He also restores to Boswell's text 20,000 words from his journal which were denied entry to his book because they were intimate, defamatory, or about the islands rather than Johnson. The endnotes incorporate Boswell's footnotes, translations of Latin passages, a clear summary of pre-existing information on the two texts, and a fresh focus on what the two men actually found on their trip. To the Hebrides also includes contemporary prints by Thomas Rowlandson, seventeen new maps and a comprehensive index.

The Celestial Railroad: A Steam Age Saga of Artisanship and Aspiration

Author : S. David Wilson
Publisher : S. David Wilson
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 195 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Celestial Railroad: A Steam Age Saga of Artisanship and Aspiration written by S. David Wilson and published by S. David Wilson. This book was released on 2024-02-04 with total page 195 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This revised annotated work explores the rise and fall of the steam age as it shaped the life of an archetypal industrial family. Particular emphasis is placed on the railroad and shipbuilding industries in Britain and the United States.

On the Other Side of Sorrow

Author : James Hunter
Publisher : Casemate Publishers
ISBN 13 : 0857908340
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (579 download)

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Download or read book On the Other Side of Sorrow written by James Hunter and published by Casemate Publishers. This book was released on 2014-07-03 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “An extraordinary intellectual voyage” through Gaelic environmental awareness, centuries ahead of its time, and its value today (The Herald). Caring for the environment, developing rural communities, and ensuring the survival of minority cultures are all laudable objectives, but they can conflict, and nowhere more so than the Scottish Highlands. As environmentalists strive to preserve the scenery and wildlife of the Highlands, the people who belong there, and who have their own claims on the landscape, question this new threat to their culture, which dates back thousands of years. In this sensitive, thought-provoking book, James Hunter probes deep into this culture to examine the dispute between Highlanders, who developed a strong environmental awareness a thousand years before other Europeans, and conservationists, whose thinking owes much to the romantic ideals of the nineteenth century. More than that, he also suggests a new way of dealing with the problem, advocating drastic land-use changes and the repopulation of empty glens—an approach that has worldwide implications. “A very thoughtful piece of advocacy.” —The Scotsman

British Emigration, 1603-1914

Author : A. Murdoch
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230512259
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (35 download)

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Download or read book British Emigration, 1603-1914 written by A. Murdoch and published by Springer. This book was released on 2004-10-15 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The idea of Britain has been understood largely in terms of sectarian conflict and state formation, whereas emigration has most often been explored in terms of economic and social history. This book explores the relationship between two subjects normally studied in isolation, and includes emigration from Ireland as a social phenomenon which cannot be understood in isolation from modern British History, as well as the impact of British emigration on the ethos and identity of the British Empire at its zenith at the turn of the Nineteenth and Twentieth centuries.

Devolving Identities

Author : Lynne Pearce
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351944592
Total Pages : 376 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (519 download)

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Download or read book Devolving Identities written by Lynne Pearce and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-03-02 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There is no doubt that the political and cultural map of Europe is in the process of being radically redrawn. Alongside the major upheavals in continental Europe, the British Isles has undergone far-reaching constitutional reform. In Devolving Identities, feminist scholars explore their personal negotiations of gender, class, ethnicity and national or regional identity through their readings of two literary and cultural 'texts'. The collection centres on the ontological experience of reading and writing 'as a feminist', and combines the discussion of texts which are inscribed - whether consciously or unconsciously - with the academics' own struggle to reconcile their 'roots' with their current 'situations' or 'identities'. This book's focus on the overlapping of gender and national or regional identity is a direct response to the devolution movements currently active in the British Isles. The contributors are drawn from Scotland, Wales, Cornwall, Ireland, Northern Ireland and selected regions of England. In its complex engagement of subject and text and its political insistence that we no longer consider key aspects of 'identity' in isolation, this volume presents a truly state-of-the-art investigation of (a) what it means to be 'regionally defined' and (b) how the complexity of our positioning in terms of class, gender and nation impacts upon our practice as literary and cultural critics.

A Quite Impossible Proposal

Author : Andrew Drummond
Publisher : Origin
ISBN 13 : 1788852710
Total Pages : 351 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (888 download)

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Download or read book A Quite Impossible Proposal written by Andrew Drummond and published by Origin. This book was released on 2020-11-24 with total page 351 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By the author of An Abridged History, “a detailed examination of an overlooked chapter in Scotland’s transport history” (The Scotsman). In the 1890s, the people of north-west Scotland grew tired of Government Commissions sent to consider a railway to Ullapool. Despite rock-solid arguments in favor of such a railway, neither government nor the big railway companies lifted a finger to build one. Against the recommendations of its own advisers, the Scottish Office dismissed the project as “a quite impossible proposal.” This book tells the whole sorry tale of the attempt to improve transportation in the north-west Highlands and the resulting government inquiries, set against the region’s economic and social problems and civil unrest in the crofting communities. Stories, facts and figures have been unearthed from the archives of government departments and railway companies, from local people’s letters and petitions, from contemporary newspapers and from the plans prepared for the hoped-for railways. Other unbuilt railways to the north-west coast are also described. But this story is not just about planned railways that were never built. It is about the frustrations of the people of the Highlands in the face of government incompetence, railway-company obstructionism, local rivalries and the struggle against the historical injustice of land ownership. “Delves deep into the archives to reveal an astonishing story of establishment incompetence and indifference—and some west coast skullduggery—contriving to thwart the energy and enthusiasm of locals keen to share in the benefits which railways had brought to other Highland communities.” —RailScot