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Author : Robert Somers
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Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)
Download or read book Letters from the Highlands on the Famine of 1846 written by Robert Somers and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Tom M. Devine
Publisher : Birlinn Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1788854101
Total Pages : 382 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (888 download)
Download or read book The Great Highland Famine written by Tom M. Devine and published by Birlinn Ltd. This book was released on 2021-09-02 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Great Hunger in nineteenth-century Ireland was a major human tragedy of modern times. Almost a million perished and a further two million emigrated in the wake of potato blight and economic collapse. Acute famine also gripped the Scottish Highlands at the same time, causing misery, hardship and distress. The story of that lesser known human disaster is told in this prize-winning and internationally acclaimed book. The author describes the classic themes of highland and Scottish history, including the clearances, landlordism, crofting life, emigration and migration in a subtle and intricate reconstruction based on a wide range of sources. This book should appeal to all those with an interest in Scottish history, the emigration of Scottish people and the Highland Clearances.
Author : Robert Somers
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Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Letters from the Highlands written by Robert Somers and published by . This book was released on 1848 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Andrew Ross
Publisher : Amberley Publishing Limited
ISBN 13 : 1398104272
Total Pages : 595 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (981 download)
Download or read book Donald Ross and the Highland Clearances written by Andrew Ross and published by Amberley Publishing Limited. This book was released on 2023-06-15 with total page 595 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A remarkable new analysis of the shameful Highland clearances through the experience and effective defiance of one man.
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 : John A. McGregor
Publisher : Birlinn Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1788855728
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (888 download)
Download or read book The West Highland Railway written by John A. McGregor and published by Birlinn Ltd. This book was released on 2005-08-19 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The West Highland Railway, which opened to Fort William in 1894 and to Mallaig in 1901, follows a scenic route by Loch Lomond, Breadalbane and Lochaber to the west coast of Scotland and is one of the most famous railway lines in the world. This book describes the late-nineteenth-century 'railway mania' in the Highlands, addressing the politics of promotion and the disputes over state assistance for the Fort William–Mallaig line, rather than the heroics and the romance of construction and operation. It discusses the uneasy alliances and battles between the railway companies of Scotland, as well as those between Scottish lines and their English counterparts. It also reviews other schemes, more or less successful, and examines the expectations bound up with railway development, asking how far these had been achieved, or remained relevant, by 1914. 'This is a meticulously researched book . . . a unique and comprehensive history of the origins of the West Highland Railway . . . an essential addition to the library of anyone with an interest in Scottish railway history' - Ewan Crawford, University of Glasgow 'a fascinating and revealing study of rail development issues in the western Highlands between the 1840s and 1914' - Tom Hart, University of Glasgow
Author : John Graham Gibson
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN 13 : 0773515410
Total Pages : 426 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (735 download)
Download or read book Traditional Gaelic Bagpiping, 1745-1945 written by John Graham Gibson and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 1998 with total page 426 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: He argues that the dramatic depopulation of the Highlands in the nineteenth century was one of the main reasons for the decline of Gaelic piping. Gibson follows the emigration of the Highland Scots from the Old World to the New - to where an echo of traditional Gaelic music can still be heard.
Author : Norman Macleod
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Total Pages : 72 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (18 download)
Download or read book Extracts of Letters to Dr. M'Leod, Glasgow, regarding the famine and destitution in the Highlands and Islands of Scotland, 1847 written by Norman Macleod and published by . This book was released on 1847 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : New York State Library
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Total Pages : 438 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 download)
Download or read book Catalogue of the New York State Library ... written by New York State Library and published by . This book was released on 1882 with total page 438 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Arthur Hugh Clough
Publisher : Good Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 356 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (66 download)
Download or read book Prose remains of Arthur Hugh Clough, with a selection from his letters and a memoir written by Arthur Hugh Clough and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2023-07-10 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Prose remains of Arthur Hugh Clough, with a selection from his letters and a memoir" by Arthur Hugh Clough. Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten−or yet undiscovered gems−of world literature, we issue the books that need to be read. Each Good Press edition has been meticulously edited and formatted to boost readability for all e-readers and devices. Our goal is to produce eBooks that are user-friendly and accessible to everyone in a high-quality digital format.
Author : Ian McPhee
Publisher : Troubador Publishing Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1838591486
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (385 download)
Download or read book The Naked Clansmen on Mull & Iona 1700 - 1860 written by Ian McPhee and published by Troubador Publishing Ltd. This book was released on 2019-08-06 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At the start of the1700s the life of Scottish clansmen was settled compared to the past. This book describes how Clan families lived simple lives in primitive homes. The Battle of Culloden in 1746 changed Scotland forever. Clansmen were now subject to English justice, prohibited from wearing traditional clothing and carrying weapons. Clan chiefs morphed into hard-nosed landlords and ordinary clansmen faced a different and difficult future, with challenges never experienced by their forefathers. Land reform and the introduction of sheep displaced Gaelic Scots, who had to either live elsewhere, become crofters or emigrate. The development of crofting communities dependant on growing potatoes, and the lives of the people who lived in them, is an essential part of this book. While focused on Mull and Iona, it is a fascinating story about the hardship that tenants experienced throughout Scotland. Disease that decimated potato crops in 1846, caused famine, starvation and great poverty. People lost their livelihoods and were evicted from their homes. Evictions, starvation and government policy led to an upsurge in emigration. Until economic conditions improved during the Crimean War, emigration played a key role in the salvation of a starving population.
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Total Pages : 876 pages
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Download or read book Bibliography of British History, 1485-: Brown, Lucy M. 1789-1851 written by and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 876 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Melissa Fegan
Publisher : Clarendon Press
ISBN 13 : 0191555002
Total Pages : 294 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (915 download)
Download or read book Literature and the Irish Famine 1845-1919 written by Melissa Fegan and published by Clarendon Press. This book was released on 2002-08-08 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The impact of the Irish famine of 1845-1852 was unparalleled in both political and psychological terms. The effects of famine-related mortality and emigration were devastating, in the field of literature no less than in other areas. In this incisive new study, Melissa Fegan explores the famine's legacy to literature, tracing it in the work of contemporary writers and their successors, down to 1919. Dr Fegan examines both fiction and non-fiction, including journalism, travel-narratives and the Irish novels of Anthony Trollope. She argues that an examination of famine literature that simply categorizes it as 'minor' or views it only as a silence or an absence misses the very real contribution that it makes to our understanding of the period. This is an important contribution to the study of Irish history and literature, sharply illuminating contemporary Irish mentalities.
Author : James Hunter
Publisher : Birlinn Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1788852311
Total Pages : 396 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (888 download)
Download or read book Insurrection written by James Hunter and published by Birlinn Ltd. This book was released on 2019-10-10 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'A gripping, heart-breaking account of the famine winter of 1847' - Rosemary Goring, The Herald Longlisted for the Highland Book Prize 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. Further east, meanwhile, towns and villages from Aberdeen to Wick and Thurso, rose up in protest at the cost of the oatmeal that replaced potatoes as 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, harbours blockaded, a jail forced open, the military confronted. The army fired on one set of rioters. Savage sentences were imposed on others. But thousands-strong crowds 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.
Author : Great Britain. Treasury
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Total Pages : 402 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Correspondence from July, 1846, to February, 1847, Relating to the Measures Adopted for the Relief of the Distress in Scotland... written by Great Britain. Treasury and published by . This book was released on 1847 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : John Morrison
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351555316
Total Pages : 229 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (515 download)
Download or read book "Painting Labour in Scotland and Europe, 1850-1900 " written by John Morrison and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-07-05 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Painting Labour in Scotland and Europe, 1850-1900 explores hitherto unrecognized European variations in the phenomena of rural labour imagery, particularly in Scotland. In exploring these distinctions relative to Scotland and Europe it looks to develop a new understanding of the commonalities and idiosyncrasies of rural labour imagery which have often been treated as homogenous. Lacking the detailed analysis that has been accorded other images, writing about Scottish painting has often been appended to analyses of English or French imagery. It has generally been understood as intellectually divorced from the sometimes brutal realities of evolving Scottish nineteenth-century urbanism, or simply ignored. Painting Labour in Scotland and Europe, 1850-1900 sets out systematically to discuss the Scottish rural painting in relation to its particular Scottish historical context, both sociological and aesthetic and its English and European counterparts. Alongside canonical Scottish images by major figures such as James Guthrie, the book explores many hitherto under researched and unconsidered paintings by nineteenth-century Scottish artists, and considers them in relation to major English and Continental Realist and Romantic painters. The juxtaposition of J.F. Millet with W.D. McKay, and Edwin Landseer with George Reid makes for a volume that will appeal both to an academic audience and to one interested in European art history more generally.
Author : New York State Library
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Total Pages : 438 pages
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Download or read book Catalogue of the New York State Library, 1882 written by New York State Library and published by . This book was released on 1882 with total page 438 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
