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Author : Anonymous
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN 13 : 3368839780
Total Pages : 370 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (688 download)
Download or read book Journal of Henry Cockburn written by Anonymous and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2023-10-17 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original, first published in 1874.
Author : William Roughead
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 332 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Trial of Deacon Brodie written by William Roughead and published by . This book was released on 1906 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : James Hunter
Publisher : Birlinn
ISBN 13 : 1788852311
Total Pages : 386 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (888 download)
Download or read book Insurrection written by James Hunter and published by Birlinn. This book was released on 2019-12-10 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author of On the Other Side of Sorrow gives a detailed account of the causes and effects of the Scottish potato famine that began in 1846. When Scotland’s 1846 potato crop was wiped out by blight, the country was plunged into crisis. In the Hebrides and the West Highlands, a huge relief effort came too late to prevent starvation and death. Farther east, meanwhile, towns and villages from Aberdeen to Wick and Thurso protested the cost of the oatmeal that replaced potatoes as the people’s basic foodstuff. Oatmeal’s soaring price was blamed on the export of grain by farmers and landlords cashing in on even higher prices elsewhere. As a bitter winter gripped and families feared a repeat of the calamitous famine then ravaging Ireland, grain carts were seized, ships boarded, harbors blockaded, a jail forced open, and the military confronted. The army fired on one set of rioters. Savage sentences were imposed on others. But crowds of thousands also gained key concessions. Above all they won cheaper food. Those dramatic events have long been ignored or forgotten. Now, in James Hunter, they have their historian. The story he tells is, by turns, moving, anger-making, and inspiring. In an era of food banks and growing poverty, it is also very timely. Praise for Insurrection “Hunter never forgets that history is first of all narrative—and this book is rich in stories—or that is subject is the experience of individual men and women, creatures of flesh and blood, not abstractions. Insurrection is fascinating reading, both painful and uplifting.” —Allan Massie, the Scotsman (UK)
Author : John Foster Kirk
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 776 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book A Supplement to Allibone's Critical Dictionary of English Literature and British and American Authors written by John Foster Kirk and published by . This book was released on 1891 with total page 776 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Murray Pittock
Publisher : Bucknell University Press
ISBN 13 : 1611480310
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (114 download)
Download or read book Robert Burns in Global Culture written by Murray Pittock and published by Bucknell University Press. This book was released on 2011-05-19 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Robert Burns in Global Culture is a collection which breaks new ground in treating Burns' poetry and influence in an international context. Widely recognized as poet of global significance in the nineteenth century, Burns' reputation has suffered from the critical turns in Romanticism since 1945 and is only now beginning to be seen in its proper context. Following on from the celebrations across the world to mark Burns' 250th anniversary in 2009, this collection asks questions concerning the nature of Burns' global influence in the United States, Europe and the Commonwealth, examines the extraordinary ways in which his writing combines a distinctively progressive agenda with deceptively traditional styles, and emplaces his reputation at the heart of questions of American exceptionalism, European democracy, British imperial identities, Italian politics, French literary history, questions of desire and sexuality, the Burns Supper and the extraordinary cult of Burns statues. 'Robert Burns in Global Culture' combines literary criticism, history, cultural theory and comparative literature to create a set of powerful, new and unique directions in the study of this major Romantic poet.
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Total Pages : 1598 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Publisher and Bookseller written by and published by . This book was released on 1880 with total page 1598 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vols. for 1871-76, 1913-14 include an extra number, The Christmas bookseller, separately paged and not included in the consecutive numbering of the regular series.
Author : David Finkelstein
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
ISBN 13 : 144265824X
Total Pages : 521 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (426 download)
Download or read book Print Culture and the Blackwood Tradition written by David Finkelstein and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2006-12-15 with total page 521 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In late 1804, William Blackwood established a small publishing and bookselling firm in Edinburgh. Over the next 175 years, William Blackwood & Sons became one of the leading publishers in Britain, enjoying both local and international success. Early on it championed the works of Scottish writers, and later gained acclaim as the publisher of G.W. Steevens, George Eliot, Charles Whibley, and Joseph Conrad. Its political influence was also widespread; in 1817 it founded the monthly Blackwood's Magazine, which featured literary, critical, political, and journalistic commentary and analysis, and was a powerful force in British conservative politics. Two hundred years after the founding of this significant influence on British literary, political, and social history, this collection of essays reappraises the place of the Blackwood firm and its magazine in literary and print culture history. Editor David Finkelstein brings together an array of eminent scholars and critics from the US, Canada, Scandinavia, and the UK to examine Blackwoods from a variety of interdisciplinary perspectives. The resulting collection covers an impressive range of subject areas, including Romantic and Victorian literature, print culture, media history, and New Journalism.
Author : Eric Richards
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000081613
Total Pages : 455 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 ( download)
Download or read book A History of the Highland Clearances written by Eric Richards and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-08-05 with total page 455 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1982, A History of the Highland Clearances looks at the forcible clearance of tenants from land they had farmed for centuries by landlords in the Highlands of Scotland in the early nineteenth century. It examines the general context of historical change, provides a full narrative of the clearances and offers a critical evaluation of the documentary sources upon which the entire story depends. By placing his subject in its historical perspective and into the context of the rest of Britain and Europe, Eric Richards vividly illustrates the realities of the Highland experience in the age of the clearances.
Author : R. Quinault
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000424405
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (4 download)
Download or read book Popular Protest and Public Order written by R. Quinault and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-09-05 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book, first published in 1974, examines the diverse nature of popular protest in Britain. Movements varied immensely from one another in their objectives, their social composition, their tactics and the geographical milieu.
Author : Eric Richards
Publisher : Birlinn
ISBN 13 : 0857905244
Total Pages : 463 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (579 download)
Download or read book The Highland Clearances written by Eric Richards and published by Birlinn. This book was released on 2012-11-05 with total page 463 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Highland Clearances stands out as one of the most emotive chapters in the history of Scotland. This book traces the origins of the Clearances from the eighteenth century to their culmination in the crofting legislation of the 1880s. In considering both the terrible suffering of the Highland people as well as the stark choices that faced landowners during a period of rapid economic change, it shows how the Clearances were one of many 'attempted' solutions to the problem of how to maintain a population on marginal and infertile land, and were, in fact, part of a wider European movement of rural depopulation. In drawing attention away from the mythology to the hard facts of what actually happened, The Highland Clearances offers a balanced analysis of events which created a terrible scar on the Highland and Gaelic imagination.
Author : Jonathan Rose
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300148356
Total Pages : 478 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (1 download)
Download or read book The Intellectual Life of the British Working Classes written by Jonathan Rose and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2008-10-01 with total page 478 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Which books did the British working classes read--and how did they read them? How did they respond to canonical authors, penny dreadfuls, classical music, school stories, Shakespeare, Marx, Hollywood movies, imperialist propaganda, the Bible, the BBC, the Bloomsbury Group? What was the quality of their classroom education? How did they educate themselves? What was their level of cultural literacy: how much did they know about politics, science, history, philosophy, poetry, and sexuality? Who were the proletarian intellectuals, and why did they pursue the life of the mind? These intriguing questions, which until recently historians considered unanswerable, are addressed in this book. Using innovative research techniques and a vast range of unexpected sources, The Intellectual Life of the British Working Classes tracks the rise and decline of the British autodidact from the pre-industrial era to the twentieth century. It offers a new method for cultural historians--an "audience history" that recovers the responses of readers, students, theatergoers, filmgoers, and radio listeners. Jonathan Rose provides an intellectual history of people who were not expected to think for themselves, told from their perspective. He draws on workers’ memoirs, oral history, social surveys, opinion polls, school records, library registers, and newspapers. Through its novel and challenging approach to literary history, the book gains access to politics, ideology, popular culture, and social relationships across two centuries of British working-class experience.
Author : Kenneth McNeil
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
ISBN 13 : 1474455484
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (744 download)
Download or read book Scottish Romanticism and Collective Memory in the British Atlantic written by Kenneth McNeil and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2020-09-04 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides an in-depth examination of Scottish Romantic literary ideas on memory and their influence among various cultures in the British Atlantic.
Author : John W Cairns
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
ISBN 13 : 0748682112
Total Pages : 540 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (486 download)
Download or read book Law, Lawyers, and Humanism written by John W Cairns and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2015-07-27 with total page 540 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection brings together a selection of the most cited articles published by Professor John W. Cairns. Essays range from Scots Law from 16th and 17th century Scotland, through to the 18th century influence of Dutch Humanism into the 19th century, a
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 858 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)
Download or read book The Columbian Cyclopedia written by and published by . This book was released on 1897 with total page 858 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Hartmut Pogge von Strandmann
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780199249978
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (499 download)
Download or read book The Revolutions in Europe, 1848-1849 written by Hartmut Pogge von Strandmann and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These essays arose out of lectures given in Oxford to commemorate the 150th anniversary of the 1848 revolutions in Europe. Authoritative, yet readable and colourful, they comprise judicicious summaries of the existing stte of knowledge, as well as new insights and unfamiliar information. Thebook also seeks to place the revolutionary events in their wider context: apart from chapters covering the main centres of disturbance in France, Germany, Italy, and the Habsburg lands, there are discussions of the situation in Britain and Russia, which were affected but not convulsed by thedisorders elsewhere; of reactions in the United States of America; of the symbolism of 1848 for the later democratic, radical, and socialist movements. 1848 marked the first breakdown of traditional authority across much of the continent, and as such is of profound significance in the developmentof modern European politics as a whole.
Author : George M. Chandler (Firm)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 408 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book A Catalogue of Rare and Fine Books written by George M. Chandler (Firm) and published by . This book was released on 1921 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Total Pages : 730 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 download)
Download or read book United Editors Encyclopedia and Dictionary written by and published by . This book was released on 1907 with total page 730 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
