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Author : William Cook Mackenzie
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 442 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)
Download or read book A Short History of the Scottish Highlands and Isles written by William Cook Mackenzie and published by . This book was released on 1906 with total page 442 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Jan Oosthoek
Publisher : ANU E Press
ISBN 13 : 1922144797
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (221 download)
Download or read book Conquering the Highlands written by Jan Oosthoek and published by ANU E Press. This book was released on 2013-02-01 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Deforestation of Scotland began millennia ago and by the early 20th century woodland cover was down to about 6 per cent of the total land area. A century later woodland cover had tripled. Most of the newly established forestry plantations were created on elevated land with wet peaty soils and high wind exposure, not exactly the condition in which forests naturally thrive. Jan Oosthoek tells in this book the story of how 20th century foresters devised ways to successfully reforest the poor Scottish uplands, land that was regarded as unplantable, to fulfil the mandate they had received from the Government and wider society to create a timber reserve. He raises the question whether the adopted forestry practice was the only viable means to create forests in the Scottish Highlands by examining debates within the forestry community about the appearance of the forests and their longterm ecological prospects. Finally, the book argues that the long held ecological convictions among foresters and pressure from environmentalists came together in the late 20th century to create more environmentally sensitive forestry.
Author : James Browne
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 514 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)
Download or read book A History of the Highlands and of the Highland Clans written by James Browne and published by . This book was released on 1843 with total page 514 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : John S. Keltie
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 914 pages
Book Rating : 4.B/5 (1 download)
Download or read book A History of the Scottish Highlands, Highland Clans and Highland Regiments written by John S. Keltie and published by . This book was released on 1881 with total page 914 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Sir John Scott Keltie
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 870 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 ( download)
Download or read book A History of the Scottish Highlands written by Sir John Scott Keltie and published by . This book was released on 1875 with total page 870 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Anne Ross
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ISBN 13 : 9780752419046
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (19 download)
Download or read book Folklore of the Scottish Highlands written by Anne Ross and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The folklore of the Scottish Highlands is unique and very much alive. Dr Anne Ross is a Gaelic-speaking scholar and archaeologist who has lived and worked in crofting communities. This has enabled her to collect information at first hand and to assess the veracity of material already published. In this substantially revised edition of a classic work first published 30 years ago, she portrays the beliefs and customs of Scottish Gaelic society, including: seasonal customs deriving from Celtic festivals; the famous waulking songs; the Highland tradition of seers and second sight; omens and taboos, both good and bad; and, chilling experiences of witchcraft and the Evil Eye Rituals associated with birth and death. Having taken her MA, MA Hons and PhD at the University of Edinburgh, Anne Ross became Research Fellow in the School of Scottish Studies, Edinburgh. She then rapidly established herself as one of Britain's leading Celtic scholars. Her seminal work is "Pagan Celtic Britain" and she has also published "Druids - Preachers of Immortality" with Tempus Publishing.
Author : John Wilson
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN 13 : 3385533511
Total Pages : 878 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (855 download)
Download or read book A History of the Scottish Highlands, Highland Clans and Highland Regiments. With an Account of the Gaelic Language, Literature, and Music written by John Wilson and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2024-06-27 with total page 878 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original, first published in 1877.
Author : Duane Meyer
Publisher : UNC Press Books
ISBN 13 : 1469620626
Total Pages : 231 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (696 download)
Download or read book The Highland Scots of North Carolina, 1732-1776 written by Duane Meyer and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2014-03-30 with total page 231 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Meyer addresses himself principally to two questions. Why did many thousands of Scottish Highlanders emigrate to America in the eighteenth century, and why did the majority of them rally to the defense of the Crown. . . . Offers the most complete and intelligent analysis of them that has so far appeared.--William and Mary Quarterly Using a variety of original sources -- official papers, travel documents, diaries, and newspapers -- Duane Meyer presents an impressively complete reconstruction of the settlement of the Highlanders in North Carolina. He examines their motives for migration, their life in America, and their curious political allegiance to George III.
Author : William Ramsay Kermack
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 168 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The Scottish Highlands written by William Ramsay Kermack and published by . This book was released on 1957 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Sir John Scott Keltie
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 302 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book A History of the Scottish Highlands, Highland Clans and Highland Regiments written by Sir John Scott Keltie and published by . This book was released on 1875 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : James Hunter
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 1780570066
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (85 download)
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.
Author : Alexander Mackenzie
Publisher : Mercat Press Books
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 592 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)
Download or read book The History of the Highland Clearances written by Alexander Mackenzie and published by Mercat Press Books. This book was released on 1883 with total page 592 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The tragedy of the Clearances, brought about by cynical, often absentee landlords, is a black page in Scotland's history. Written while the effects it describes were still unfolding, Mackenzie's history brings the distress before the reader.
Author : Sir John Scott Keltie
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 342 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (2 download)
Download or read book History of the Scottish Highlands written by Sir John Scott Keltie and published by . This book was released on 1887 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Thomas Maclauchlan
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1196 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (2 download)
Download or read book A History of the Scottish Highlands written by Thomas Maclauchlan and published by . This book was released on 1875 with total page 1196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Donald Gregory
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 516 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)
Download or read book History of the Western Highlands and Isles of Scotland, from A.D. 1493 to A.D. 1625 written by Donald Gregory and published by . This book was released on 1836 with total page 516 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : T. M. Devine
Publisher : National Geographic Books
ISBN 13 : 0141985933
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (419 download)
Download or read book The Scottish Clearances written by T. M. Devine and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2019-07-30 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'A superb book ... Anybody interested in Scottish history needs to read it' Andrew Marr, Sunday Times Eighteenth-century Scotland is famed for generating many of the enlightened ideas which helped to shape the modern world. But there was in the same period another side to the history of the nation. Many of Scotland's people were subjected to coercive and sometimes violent change, as traditional ways of life were overturned by the 'rational' exploitation of land use. The Scottish Clearances is a superb and highly original account of this sometimes terrible process, which changed the Lowland countryside forever, as it also did, more infamously, the old society of the Highlands. Based on a vast array of original sources, this pioneering book is the first to chart this tumultuous saga in one volume, with due attention to evictions and loss of land in both north and south of the Highland line. In the process, old myths are exploded and familiar assumptions undermined. With many fascinating details and the sense of an epic human story, The Scottish Clearances is an evocative memorial to all whose lives were irreparably changed in the interests of economic efficiency. This is a story of forced clearance, of the destruction of entire communities and of large-scale emigration. Some winners were able to adapt and exploit the new opportunities, but there were also others who lost everything. The clearances created the landscape of Scotland today, but it came at a huge price.
Author : Sir John Scott Keltie
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 374 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book History of the Scottish Highlands written by Sir John Scott Keltie and published by . This book was released on 1885 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
