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Download or read book REDISCOVERED DUNDEE written by Brian King and published by Troubador Publishing Ltd. This book was released on 2020-01-07 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With the opening of the V & A Museum of Design and redevelopment of the waterfront area, Dundee is a city looking confidently to the future but there is also an interesting past just waiting to be rediscovered. Rediscovered Dundee is an anthology of stories from that past. The story of any city is the story of its people and this book features accounts of some Dundonians whose names have been long absent from the history books - such as the boy who attempted a solo crossing of the Atlantic or the man who helped to change our way of death . It investigates some of the physical relics of the past which are still around us but whose stories have been forgotten over time, including the flag that flew at Culloden and the fountain that nobody wanted. There is also the truth about local myths have grown up and have been passed on down the years. Did a Dundee woman really tend to the dying Admiral Nelson and did the heir to the British throne secretly die near Broughty Ferry? With many tourists now visiting Dundee, initially drawn by the V&A, who then find that the city has much more to offer, this book also looks at other visitors through the years. Just as the modern city is being rediscovered perhaps it is time that Dundonians and visitors alike rediscover the city’s hidden history.
Book Synopsis Civic Reformation and Religious Change in Sixteenth-Century Scottish Towns by : Timothy Slonosky
Download or read book Civic Reformation and Religious Change in Sixteenth-Century Scottish Towns written by Timothy Slonosky and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2024-05-31 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Civic Reformation and Religious Change in Sixteenth-Century Scottish Towns demonstrates the crucial role of Scotland's townspeople in the dramatic Protestant Reformation of 1560. It shows that Scottish Protestants were much more successful than their counterparts in France and the Netherlands at introducing religious change because they had the acquiescence of urban populations. As town councils controlled critical aspects of civic religion, their explicit cooperation was vital to ensuring that the reforms introduced at the national level by the military and political victory of the Protestants were actually implemented. Focusing on the towns of Dundee, Stirling and Haddington, this book argues that the councillors and inhabitants gave this support because successive crises of plague, war and economic collapse shook their faith in the existing Catholic order and left them fearful of further conflict. As a result, the Protestants faced little popular opposition, and Scotland avoided the popular religious violence and division which occurred elsewhere in Europe.
Book Synopsis Famine in Scotland - the 'Ill Years' of the 1690s by : Karen J. Cullen
Download or read book Famine in Scotland - the 'Ill Years' of the 1690s written by Karen J. Cullen and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2010-02-15 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the climatic and economic origins of the last national famine to occur in Scotland, the nature and extent of the crisis which ensued, and what the impact of the famine was upon the population in demographic, economic and social terms. Current published knowledge about the causes, extent, and impact of the famine in Scotland is limited and many conclusions have been speculative in the absence of extensive research. Despite the critical importance of this crisis, one of the four disasters of the 1690s, which are widely acknowledged to have contributed to the economic arguments in favour of the Union of the Parliaments in 1707, the topic has been largely neglected and even underplayed by historians. This is the first full study of the famine, providing a unique scholarly examination of the causes, course, characteristics and consequences of the crisis. A comprehensive study of agricultural, climatic, economic, social and demographic issues, the book seeks to establish answers to the fundamental question concerning the event. How serious was it? Using detailed statistical and qualitative analysis, it discusses the regional factors that defined the famine, the impact on the population, and the interconnected causes of this traumatic event.
Book Synopsis Domination and Lordship by : Richard Oram
Download or read book Domination and Lordship written by Richard Oram and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2011-02-21 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume centres upon the era conventionally labelled the 'Making of the kingdom', or the 'Anglo-Norman' era in Scottish history. It seeks a balance between traditional historiographical concentration on the 'feudalisation' of Scottish society as part of the wholesale importation of alien cultural traditions by a 'modernising' monarchy and more recent emphasis on the continuing vitality and centrality of Gaelic culture and traditions within the twelfth- and early thirteenth-century kingdom. Part I explores the transition from the Gaelic kingship of Alba into the hybridised medieval state and traces Scotland's role as both dominated and dominator. It examines the redefinition of relationships with England, Gaelic magnates within Scotland's traditional territorial heartland and with autonomous/independent mainland and insular powers. These interrelationships form the central theme of an exploration of the struggle for political domination of the northern mainland of Britain and the adjacent islands, the mechanisms through which that domination was projected and expressed, and the manner of its expression.Part II is a thematic exploration of central aspects of the society and culture of late eleventh- to early thirteenth-century Scotland which gave character and substance to the emerging kingdom. It considers the evolutionary growth of Scottish economic structures, changes in the management of land-based resources, and the manner in which secular power and authority were acquired and exercised. These themes are developed in discussions of the emergence of urban communities and in the creation of a new noble class in the twelfth century. Religion is examined both in terms of the development of the Church as an institution and through the religious experience of the lay population.
Book Synopsis John Graham of Claverhouse, Viscount of Dundee, 1648-1689 by : Charles Sanford Terry
Download or read book John Graham of Claverhouse, Viscount of Dundee, 1648-1689 written by Charles Sanford Terry and published by . This book was released on 1905 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "John Graham of Claverhouse, 1st Viscount Dundee (c. 21 July 1648? 27 July 1689), known as the 7th Laird of Claverhouse until raised to the viscountcy in 1688, was a Scottish soldier and nobleman, a Tory and a Episcopalian. Claverhouse was responsible for policing south-west Scotland during and after the religious unrest and rebellion of the 1670s and 80s."--Wikipedia.
Book Synopsis Roots of Nationhood: The Archaeology and History of Scotland by : Louisa Campbell
Download or read book Roots of Nationhood: The Archaeology and History of Scotland written by Louisa Campbell and published by Archaeopress Publishing Ltd. This book was released on 2018-10-31 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 12 papers from specialists covering a wide array of time periods and subject areas, this volume explores the links between identity and nationhood throughout the history of Scotland from the prehistory of northern Britain to the more recent heralding of Scottish identity as a multi-ethnic construction and the possibility of Scottish independence.
Book Synopsis King of the Blues by : Daniel de Vise
Download or read book King of the Blues written by Daniel de Vise and published by Grove Press. This book was released on 2021-10-05 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first full and authoritative biography of an American—indeed a world-wide—musical and cultural legend “No one worked harder than B.B. No one inspired more up-and-coming artists. No one did more to spread the gospel of the blues.”—President Barack Obama “He is without a doubt the most important artist the blues has ever produced.”—Eric Clapton Riley “Blues Boy” King (1925-2015) was born into deep poverty in Jim Crow Mississippi. Wrenched away from his sharecropper father, B.B. lost his mother at age ten, leaving him more or less alone. Music became his emancipation from exhausting toil in the fields. Inspired by a local minister’s guitar and by the records of Blind Lemon Jefferson and T-Bone Walker, encouraged by his cousin, the established blues man Bukka White, B.B. taught his guitar to sing in the unique solo style that, along with his relentless work ethic and humanity, became his trademark. In turn, generations of artists claimed him as inspiration, from Jimi Hendrix and Eric Clapton to Carlos Santana and the Edge. King of the Blues presents the vibrant life and times of a trailblazing giant. Witness to dark prejudice and lynching in his youth, B.B. performed incessantly (some 15,000 concerts in 90 countries over nearly 60 years)—in some real way his means of escaping his past. Several of his concerts, including his landmark gig at Chicago’s Cook County Jail, endure in legend to this day. His career roller-coasted between adulation and relegation, but he always rose back up. At the same time, his story reveals the many ways record companies took advantage of artists, especially those of color. Daniel de Visé has interviewed almost every surviving member of B.B. King’s inner circle—family, band members, retainers, managers, and more—and their voices and memories enrich and enliven the life of this Mississippi blues titan, whom his contemporary Bobby “Blue” Bland simply called “the man.”
Book Synopsis An account of the affairs of Scotland, relating to the Revolution of 1688 ... By ... the Earl of B- i.e. Balcarres by : Colin LINDSAY (Earl of Balcarres.)
Download or read book An account of the affairs of Scotland, relating to the Revolution of 1688 ... By ... the Earl of B- i.e. Balcarres written by Colin LINDSAY (Earl of Balcarres.) and published by . This book was released on 1754 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis History of the Rebellions in Scotland Under Montrose, Dundee, Mar, and Prince Charles Stuart: History of the rebellion in Scotland in 1745, 1746 by : Robert Chambers
Download or read book History of the Rebellions in Scotland Under Montrose, Dundee, Mar, and Prince Charles Stuart: History of the rebellion in Scotland in 1745, 1746 written by Robert Chambers and published by . This book was released on 1829 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Handbook to the Highland Railway System and the Sutherland Railway by : George Anderson (of Inverness.)
Download or read book Handbook to the Highland Railway System and the Sutherland Railway written by George Anderson (of Inverness.) and published by . This book was released on 1870 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Amphibian Declines by : Michael Lannoo
Download or read book Amphibian Declines written by Michael Lannoo and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2005-06-15 with total page 1117 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This benchmark volume documents in comprehensive detail a major environmental crisis: rapidly declining amphibian populations and the disturbing developmental problems that are increasingly prevalent within many amphibian species. Horror stories on this topic have been featured in the scientific and popular press over the past fifteen years, invariably asking what amphibian declines are telling us about the state of the environment. Are declines harbingers of devastated ecosystems or simply weird reflections of a peculiar amphibian world? This compendium—presenting new data, reviews of current literature, and comprehensive species accounts—reinforces what scientists have begun to suspect, that amphibians are a lens through which the state of the environment can be viewed more clearly. And, that the view is alarming and presages serious concerns for all life, including that of our own species. The first part of this work consists of more than fifty essays covering topics from the causes of declines to conservation, surveys and monitoring, and education. The second part consists of species accounts describing the life history and natural history of every known amphibian species in the United States.
Book Synopsis Regular Bulletin ... by : Michigan State University. Agricultural Experiment Station
Download or read book Regular Bulletin ... written by Michigan State University. Agricultural Experiment Station and published by . This book was released on 1907 with total page 984 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Report of the Secretary by : Michigan. State Board of Agriculture
Download or read book Report of the Secretary written by Michigan. State Board of Agriculture and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 704 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Annual Report by : Michigan State University. Agricultural Experiment Station
Download or read book Annual Report written by Michigan State University. Agricultural Experiment Station and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 630 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Bulletin by : Michigan State University. Agricultural Experiment Station
Download or read book Bulletin written by Michigan State University. Agricultural Experiment Station and published by . This book was released on 1911 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Annual Report of the Agricultural Experiment Station, Michigan State University by : Michigan State University. Agricultural Experiment Station
Download or read book Annual Report of the Agricultural Experiment Station, Michigan State University written by Michigan State University. Agricultural Experiment Station and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 718 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Annual Report of the Secretary of the State Board of Agriculture of the State of Michigan and ... Annual Report of the Agricultural College Experiment Station from ... by : Michigan. State Board of Agriculture
Download or read book Annual Report of the Secretary of the State Board of Agriculture of the State of Michigan and ... Annual Report of the Agricultural College Experiment Station from ... written by Michigan. State Board of Agriculture and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 708 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes the 9th-61st annual report of the Agricultural Experiment Station (called 9th-11th, Agricultural College Experiment Station; called 12th-59th annual report of the Experiment Station) and issued by Michigan State College (called earlier, State Agricultural College (Mich.); Michigan Agricultural College).
