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Author : David Stewart
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Total Pages : 664 pages
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Download or read book Sketches of the Character, Institutions, and Customs of the Highlanders of Scotland written by David Stewart and published by . This book was released on 1825 with total page 664 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : DAVID. STEWART
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ISBN 13 : 9781033685945
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (859 download)
Download or read book SKETCHES OF THE CHARACTER, INSTITUTIONS, AND CUSTOMS OF THE HIGHLANDERS OF SCOTLAND. written by DAVID. STEWART and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : David Stewart
Publisher : Legare Street Press
ISBN 13 : 9781021338037
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (38 download)
Download or read book Sketches of the Character, Institutions, and Customs of the Highlanders of Scotland written by David Stewart and published by Legare Street Press. This book was released on 2023-07-18 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a collection of sketches of the character, institutions, and customs of the Highlanders of Scotland, offering an insight into life and culture in the Scottish Highlands. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Author : David Stewart
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9781333536466
Total Pages : 432 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (364 download)
Download or read book Sketches of the Character, Institutions, and Customs of the Highlanders of Scotland (Classic Reprint) written by David Stewart and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2016-09-09 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Sketches of the Character, Institutions, and Customs of the Highlanders of Scotland In the Preface to the first edition, General Stewart informs us that his statements are grounded on authentic documents on communications from people in whose intelligence and correctness he places implicit confidence; on his own personal knowledge and observation; and on the mass of general information, of great credibility and con sistency, preserved among the Highlanders of the last century and he assures us of his honest and perfect conviction of the truth of all he has advanced, and of the vital importance attached to the several points touched upon. Having explained how he was induced to commence the work, and how he suc ceeded in obtaining so much valuable and authen tic information, first, concerning the forty-second, . About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author : David Stewart
Publisher : Inverness : A. & W.Mackenzie
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 428 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (4 download)
Download or read book Sketches of the Character, Institutions, and Customs of the Highlanders of Scotland written by David Stewart and published by Inverness : A. & W.Mackenzie. This book was released on 1885 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : David Stewart (Major-General.)
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 662 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)
Download or read book Sketches of the Character, Manners, and Present State of the Highlanders of Scotland written by David Stewart (Major-General.) and published by . This book was released on 1825 with total page 662 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Victoria Henshaw
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 1472514890
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (725 download)
Download or read book Scotland and the British Army, 1700-1750 written by Victoria Henshaw and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2014-06-05 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The wholesale assimilation of Scots into the British Army is largely associated with the recruitment of Highlanders during and after the Seven Years War. This important new study demonstrates that the assimilation of Lowland and Highland Scots into the British Army was a salient feature of its history in the first half of the 18th century and was already well advanced by the outbreak of the Seven Years War. Scotland and the British Army, 1700-1750 analyses the wider policing functions of the British Army, the role of Scotland's militia and the development of Scotland's military roads and institutions to provide a fuller understanding of the purpose and complexity of Scotland's military organisation and presence in Scotland in the turbulent decades between the Glorious Revolution and the defeat of Bonnie Prince Charlie, which has been too often simplified as an army of occupation for the suppression of Jacobitism. Instead, Victoria Henshaw reveals the complexities and difficulties experienced by Scottish soldiers of all ranks in the British Army as nationality, loyalty and prejudice clouded Scottish desires to use military service to defend the Glorious Revolution and the Union of 1707.
Author : Colin G. Calloway
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199887640
Total Pages : 392 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (998 download)
Download or read book White People, Indians, and Highlanders written by Colin G. Calloway and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2008-07-03 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In nineteenth century paintings, the proud Indian warrior and the Scottish Highland chief appear in similar ways--colorful and wild, righteous and warlike, the last of their kind. Earlier accounts depict both as barbarians, lacking in culture and in need of civilization. By the nineteenth century, intermarriage and cultural contact between the two--described during the Seven Years' War as cousins--was such that Cree, Mohawk, Cherokee, and Salish were often spoken with Gaelic accents. In this imaginative work of imperial and tribal history, Colin Calloway examines why these two seemingly wildly disparate groups appear to have so much in common. Both Highland clans and Native American societies underwent parallel experiences on the peripheries of Britain's empire, and often encountered one another on the frontier. Indeed, Highlanders and American Indians fought, traded, and lived together. Both groups were treated as tribal peoples--remnants of a barbaric past--and eventually forced from their ancestral lands as their traditional food sources--cattle in the Highlands and bison on the Great Plains--were decimated to make way for livestock farming. In a familiar pattern, the cultures that conquered them would later romanticize the very ways of life they had destroyed. White People, Indians, and Highlanders illustrates how these groups alternately resisted and accommodated the cultural and economic assault of colonialism, before their eventual dispossession during the Highland Clearances and Indian Removals. What emerges is a finely-drawn portrait of how indigenous peoples with their own rich identities experienced cultural change, economic transformation, and demographic dislocation amidst the growing power of the British and American empires.
Author : Charles W. J. Withers
Publisher : Birlinn Ltd
ISBN 13 : 178885425X
Total Pages : 385 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (888 download)
Download or read book Gaelic in Scotland 1698-1981 written by Charles W. J. Withers and published by Birlinn Ltd. This book was released on 2021-12-01 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Surprisingly little is known of the geographical history of Gaelic: where and when it was spoken in the past, and how and why the Gaelic-speaking area of Scotland – the Gaidhealtachd – has retreated and the language declined. A hundred years ago there were 250,000 Gaelic speakers. Now there are 80,000. This book answers four broad questions: What has been the geography of Gaelic in the past? How has that geography changed over time and space? What have been the patterns of language use within the Gaedhealtachd in the past? And what have been the processes of language change? Emphasis is upon the changing geography of the spoken language from 1698 to 1981: from the earliest date for which it is possible to document the expanse of the Gaelic language area to the most recent census to record the numbers speaking Gaelic.
Author : Alexander Leslie Klieforth
Publisher : University Press of America
ISBN 13 : 9780761827917
Total Pages : 452 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (279 download)
Download or read book The Scottish Invention of America, Democracy and Human Rights written by Alexander Leslie Klieforth and published by University Press of America. This book was released on 2004 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Scottish Invention of America, Democracy and Human Rights is a history of liberty from 1300 BC to 2004 AD. The book traces the history of the philosophy and fight for freedom from the ancient Celts to the medieval Scots to the Scottish Enlightenment to the creation of America. The work contends that the roots of liberty originated in the radical political thought of the ancient Celts, the Scots' struggle for freedom, John Duns Scotus and the Scottish declaration of independence (Arbroath, 1320) that were the primary basis of the American Declaration of Independence and the modern human rights movement.
Author : James MacKillop
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 1476693129
Total Pages : 283 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (766 download)
Download or read book Highlanders written by James MacKillop and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2024-01-04 with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rebellion was recurrent in the Highlands because the Gaels (Scoti) were an often-oppressed indigenous minority in the nation, Scotland, to which they gave their name. They spoke a language, Gaelic, few outsiders would learn, and had their own family and social system, the clans. Warfare was bloody, culminating in the catastrophe of Culloden Moor during the doomed quest to restore the Stuart kingship to all of Britain. Economic hardship, including the near-genocidal Clearances, in which tenant farmers were replaced with sheep, drove the Gaels from the glens and islands, so that most today live in the diaspora, including millions in North America. Although the Gaels lack a single genetic identity, they clearly draw from distinct roots in the Irish, Norse and Picts. Despite their hardship, the Gaels are also presented in romantic portrayals by the artistic elite of other nations. This book offers ways in which the reader might find roots and ancestry in unfamiliar terrain. Chapters discuss the landscape and language of the Highlanders, the rise of clans, feuds and invasions, and eventual emigration.
Author : David Stewart
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 576 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Sketches of the Character, Manners, and Present State of the Highlanders of Scotland written by David Stewart and published by . This book was released on 1822 with total page 576 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Scottish Mountaineering Club
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 486 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Scottish Mountaineering Club Journal written by Scottish Mountaineering Club and published by . This book was released on 1903 with total page 486 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes section "Mountaineering literature."
Author : Charles W J Withers
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317332806
Total Pages : 414 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (173 download)
Download or read book Gaelic Scotland written by Charles W J Withers and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-12-14 with total page 414 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book, originally published in 1988, examines the Highlands and Islands of Scotland over several centuries and charts their cultural transformation from a separate region into one where the processes of anglicisation have largely succeeded. It analyses the many aspects of change including the policies of successive governments, the decline of the Gaelic language, the depressing of much of the population into peasantry and the clearances.
Author : James Mackinnon
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 578 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The Union of England and Scotland written by James Mackinnon and published by . This book was released on 1896 with total page 578 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Elizabeth A Foyster
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
ISBN 13 : 0748629068
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (486 download)
Download or read book History of Everyday Life in Scotland, 1600 to 1800 written by Elizabeth A Foyster and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2010-02-28 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the ordinary daily routines, behaviours, experiences and beliefs of the Scottish people during a period of immense political, social and economic change. It underlines the importance of the church in post-Reformation Scottish society, but also highlights aspects of everyday life that remained the same, or similar, notwithstanding the efforts of the kirk, employers and the state to alter behaviours and attitudes.Drawing upon and interrogating a range of primary sources, the authors create a richly coloured, highly-nuanced picture of the lives of ordinary Scots from birth through marriage to death. Analytical in approach, the coverage of topics is wide, ranging from the ways people made a living, through their non-work activities including reading, playing and relationships, to the ways they experienced illness and approached death.This volume:*Provides a rich and finely nuanced social history of the period 1600-1800 *Gets behind the politics of Union and Jacobitism, and the experience of agricultural and industrial 'revolution'*Presents the scholarly expertise of its contributing authors in a accessible way*Includes a guide to further reading indicating sources for further study
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Total Pages : 598 pages
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Download or read book The Celtic Magazine written by and published by . This book was released on 1885 with total page 598 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
