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Book Synopsis Scottish Smugglers by : Gavin D. Smith
Download or read book Scottish Smugglers written by Gavin D. Smith and published by Birlinn Publishers. This book was released on 2003 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work embraces the historical imperatives that made smuggling lucrative, particularly during its 18th century golden age, looking at the role of the Act of Union (1707) and Jacobitism in the encouragement and perpetuation of the Scottish smuggling trade. Contemporary society's attitudes to smuggling are explored, and the people who took part in it, their modus operandi, and the commodities they smuggled also are covered. A special chapter is devoted to whiskey smuggling, which even embraces the true story of Whiskey Galore and the topic of US Prohibition. All areas of Scotland that were affected by smuggling are examined, allowing for exploration of specific smuggling locations, operations, and episodes.
Book Synopsis Scottish Smugglers by : Jean Simmons
Download or read book Scottish Smugglers written by Jean Simmons and published by . This book was released on 1975 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Smuggling in the Highlands by : Ian MacDonald
Download or read book Smuggling in the Highlands written by Ian MacDonald and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Scotland's Secret History by : Daniel MacCannell
Download or read book Scotland's Secret History written by Daniel MacCannell and published by Birlinn Publishers. This book was released on 2017 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Illicit distilling in Scotland was seen as a 'right of man' at the end of the 17th century. Attempts to enforce excise duty on the spirit were therefore met with resistance, ranging from riots to more and more ingenious ways of avoiding paying tax. In this book and Charles MacLean and Daniel MacCannell give a fascinating insight into the day-to-day struggles that led to the increase in illicit distilling from the mid-1600s, then to its eventual demise in the early twentieth century. The Cabrach, a wild and sparsely populated part of Aberdeenshire, became renowned for its production of illicit whisky. Local inhabitants mixed farming and distilling with great skill, creating a network of stills and distribution to evade customs. Using new research first-hand historical accounts and official records, the authors show how spirits from this small parish were made and travelled far and wide, across the border to England and across the North Sea to France, firing up revolution and lending solidarity to the struggles of the Jacobites. Features: Making Whisky (Dennis McBain), The Jacobite Legacy (Murray Pittock), The Bard and the Bottle (David Purdie), The Dram In Folklore (Tom McKean), A Smuggler's Paradise (David Ferguson); Banff - The Smuggler's Royal Burgh (Jay Wilson), Scotland's Lost Distilleries (Brian Townsend).
Book Synopsis Irish and Scottish Mercantile Networks in Europe and Overseas in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries by : David Dickson
Download or read book Irish and Scottish Mercantile Networks in Europe and Overseas in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries written by David Dickson and published by Academia Press. This book was released on 2007 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The contributions in this collection of essays make an important step in reconstructing the history of the Irish and Scottish mercantile diasporas in the 17th and 18th centuries.
Book Synopsis The New Scottish Cinema by : Jonathan Murray
Download or read book The New Scottish Cinema written by Jonathan Murray and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2015-03-31 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From a near standing start in the 1970s, the emergence and expansion of an aesthetically and culturally distinctive Scottish cinema proved to be one of the most significant developments within late-twentieth and early twenty-first-century British film culture. Individual Scottish films and filmmakers have attracted notable amounts of critical attention as a result. The New Scottish Cinema, however, is the first book to trace Scottish film culture's industrial, creative and critical evolution in comprehensive detail across a forty-year period. On the one hand, it invites readers to reconsider the known - films such as Shallow Grave, Ratcatcher, The Magdalene Sisters, Young Adam, Red Road and The Last King of Scotland. On the other, it uncovers the overlooked, from the 1980s comedic film makers who followed in the footsteps of Bill Forsyth to the variety of present-day Scottish film making - a body of work that encompasses explorations of multiculturalism, exploitation of the macabre and much else in between.In addition to analysing an eclectic range of films and filmmakers, The New Scottish Cinema also examines the diverse industrial, institutional and cultural contexts which have allowed Scottish film to evolve and grow since the 1970s, and relates these to the images of Scotland which artists have put on screen. In so doing, the book narrates a story of interest to any student of contemporary British film.
Book Synopsis Borderland Smuggling by : Joshua M. Smith
Download or read book Borderland Smuggling written by Joshua M. Smith and published by University Press of Florida. This book was released on 2019-10-14 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Passamaquoddy Bay lies between Maine and New Brunswick at the mouth of the St. Croix River. Most of it (including Campobello Island) is within Canada, but the Maine town of Lubec lies at the bay's entrance. Rich in beaver pelts, fish, and timber, the area was a famous smuggling center after the American Revolution. Joshua Smith examines the reasons for smuggling in this area and how three conflicts in early republic history--the 1809 Flour War, the War of 1812, and the 1820 Plaster War--reveal smuggling's relationship to crime, borderlands, and the transition from mercantilism to capitalism. Smith astutely interprets smuggling as created and provoked by government efforts to maintain and regulate borders. In 1793 British and American negotiators framed a vague new boundary meant to demarcate the lingering British empire in North America (Canada) from the new American Republic. Officials insisted that an abstract line now divided local peoples on either side of Passamaquoddy Bay. Merely by persisting in trade across the newly demarcated national boundary, people violated the new laws. As smugglers, they defied both the British and American efforts to restrict and regulate commerce. Consequently, local resistance and national authorities engaged in a continuous battle for four decades. Smith treats the Passamaquoddy Bay smuggling as more than a local episode of antiquarian interest. Indeed, he crafts a local case study to illuminate a widespread phenomenon in early modern Europe and the Americas. A volume in the series New Perspectives on Maritime History and Nautical Archaeology, edited by James C. Bradford and Gene Allen Smith
Book Synopsis Conflict and Stability in Scottish Society, 1700-1850 by : Tom M. Devine
Download or read book Conflict and Stability in Scottish Society, 1700-1850 written by Tom M. Devine and published by Birlinn Ltd. This book was released on 2001-01-01 with total page 197 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Between the early eighteenth and the middle decades of the nineteenth century, Scottish society was transformed by industrialisation, urbanisation and major changes in agriculture and rural society. The rate of town and city growth was among the fastest in western Europe, migration and emigration accelerated and the traditional way of life in the Highland and Lowland countryside was brought to an end through the pressures of market demand and landlord strategy. Such a major upheaval created increased social tension. Conflict and Stabilitiy in Scottish Society challenges the previously accepted view that this major upheaval in Scottish life did not stimulate much unrest and that a modern industrial society developed relatively smoothly. The papers here, given at the Scottish Historical Studies Seminar at Strathclyde University in 1988–89, suggest that protest was more common, more enduring and more diverse than is usually supposed.
Book Synopsis Rambles in Northumberland and on the Scottish Border ... By S. Oliver, etc by : William Andrew Chatto
Download or read book Rambles in Northumberland and on the Scottish Border ... By S. Oliver, etc written by William Andrew Chatto and published by . This book was released on 1835 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Smugglers written by Duncan Fraser and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Scottish Society, 1707-1830 by : Christopher A. Whatley
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.
Book Synopsis King's Cutters and Smugglers 1700-1855 by : E. Keble Chatterton
Download or read book King's Cutters and Smugglers 1700-1855 written by E. Keble Chatterton and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-11-21 with total page 187 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book covers the history of smuggling between the 1700 to 1855, which can be said as the time when the practice was widespread and even sanctioned. The author states that in the following pages, he has endeavored to resist the temptation to weave a web of pleasant but unreliable fiction around actual occurrences. That which is here set forth has been derived from facts, and in almost every case from manuscript records. It aims at telling the story of an eventful and exciting period according to historical and not imaginative occurrence. There are extant many novels and short stories which have for their heroes the old-time smugglers. But the present volume represents an effort to look at these exploits as they were and not as a novelist likes to think they might have occurred. Perhaps there is hardly an Englishman who was not thrilled in his boyhood days by Marryat and others when they wrote of the King's Cutters and their foes. It is hoped that the following pages will not merely revive pleasant recollections but arouse a new interest in the adventures of a species of sailing craft that is now, like the brig and the fine old clipper-ship, past and done with.
Book Synopsis Rambles in Northumberland and on the Scottish Border ; Interspersed with Brief Notices of Interesting Events in Border History by : William Andrew Chatto
Download or read book Rambles in Northumberland and on the Scottish Border ; Interspersed with Brief Notices of Interesting Events in Border History written by William Andrew Chatto and published by . This book was released on 1835 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Transactions of the Hawick Archaeological Society by : Hawick Archaeological Society
Download or read book Transactions of the Hawick Archaeological Society written by Hawick Archaeological Society and published by . This book was released on 1863 with total page 1014 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Network North written by Steve Murdoch and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2005-10-01 with total page 449 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discussing a series of economic, confessional, political and espionage networks, this volume provides an illuminating study of network history in Northern Europe in the early modern period. The empirically researched chapters advance existing 'social network theory' into accessible historical discussion.
Download or read book Scottish Pride written by Heather Duncan and published by Citadel Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Scottish Pride is a compendium of 101 reasons the Scots have to be proud of their heritage. From the cuisine of the highlands to actors (Sean Connery) and artists (John Duncan Fergusson) to bagpipers, golf courses, kilts and Scotch Whiskey: this book is a unique tribute to a fine and accomplished people. Included here are profiles of great Scots like Alexander Hamilton and Scottish heroes like Robert the Bruce. From royalty (Mary Stuart), to rock stars (Rod Stewart), to politicians (David Hume), these are the luminaries who have changed the face of history.
Book Synopsis Smuggling in the Highlands by : Ian MacDonald
Download or read book Smuggling in the Highlands written by Ian MacDonald and published by Gwasg y Bwthyn. This book was released on 2007 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
