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Book Synopsis The Dundas Despotism by : Michael Fry
Download or read book The Dundas Despotism written by Michael Fry and published by Birlinn Ltd. This book was released on 2004-07-05 with total page 431 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first comprehensive and up-to-date biography of Henry Dundas, 1st Viscount Melville (1742-1811) and his son Robert, 2nd Viscount Melville (1771-1851). Aided by other members of their family, they ruled Scotland from the 1770s to the 1830s in a period of government later dubbed 'the Dundas Despotism'. Using a mass of new primary and secondary material culled from England, Scotland, Ireland and the United States, Michael Fry here challenges the traditional view that theirs was a corrupt and authoritarian regime. He shows that both father and son sought to achieve good government within the accepted political conventions of the age, and that many of the principles they set out to apply were owed directly to Scottish Enlightenment ideas. The Dundases were also of fundamental importance in drawing Scotland more fully into the United Kingdom and enabling the Union of 1707 to work. This is a sparkling reassessment of a crucial period of Scottish, British and imperial history. The Dundas Despotism was previously published by Edinburgh University Press.
Book Synopsis So Great a Proffit by : James R. Fichter
Download or read book So Great a Proffit written by James R. Fichter and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2010-05-31 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Fichter has given us a powerful and authoritative book of major importance to students of empire and business alike." --
Book Synopsis Edinburgh Sketches & Memories by : David Masson
Download or read book Edinburgh Sketches & Memories written by David Masson and published by London, A. and C. Black. This book was released on 1892 with total page 460 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis A History of Private Law in Scotland by : Kenneth G. C. Reid
Download or read book A History of Private Law in Scotland written by Kenneth G. C. Reid and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 856 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Law in Scotland has a long history, uninterrupted either by revolution or by codification. This work is the first detailed and systematic study in the field of Scottish private law. It takes key topics from the law of obligations and the law of property and traces their development from earliest times to the present day.
Book Synopsis History of Scotland to the Present Time by : Peter Hume Brown
Download or read book History of Scotland to the Present Time written by Peter Hume Brown and published by CUP Archive. This book was released on 1911 with total page 546 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis History of Scotland: From the Revolution of 1689 to the disruption, 1843 by : Peter Hume Brown
Download or read book History of Scotland: From the Revolution of 1689 to the disruption, 1843 written by Peter Hume Brown and published by . This book was released on 1911 with total page 546 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis History of Scotland to the Present Time: From the Revolution of 1689 to the year 1910 by : Peter Hume Brown
Download or read book History of Scotland to the Present Time: From the Revolution of 1689 to the year 1910 written by Peter Hume Brown and published by . This book was released on 1911 with total page 544 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis History of Scotland by : Peter Hume Brown
Download or read book History of Scotland written by Peter Hume Brown and published by . This book was released on 1911 with total page 540 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Naval Power and British Culture, 1760–1850 by : Roger Morriss
Download or read book Naval Power and British Culture, 1760–1850 written by Roger Morriss and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-05-15 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Recent work on the growth of British naval power during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries has emphasised developments in the political, constitutional and financial infrastructure of the British state. Naval Power and British Culture, 1760-1850 takes these considerations one step further, and examines the relationship of administrative culture within government bureaucracy to contemporary perceptions of efficiency in the period 1760-1850. By administrative culture is meant the ideas, attitudes, structures, practices and mores of public employees. Inevitably these changed over time and this shift is examined as the naval departments passed through times of crisis and peace. Focusing on the transition in the culture of government employees in the naval establishments in London - in the Navy and Victualling Offices - as well as the victualling yard towns along the Thames and Medway, Naval Power and British Culture, 1760-1850 concerns itself with attitudes at all levels of the organisation. Yet it is concerned above all with those whose views and conduct are seldom reported, the clerks, artificers, secretaries and commissioners; those employees of government who lived in local communities and took their work experience back home with them. As such, this book illuminates not only the employees of government, but also the society which surrounded and impinged upon naval establishments, and the reciprocal nature of their attitudes and influences.
Book Synopsis Lady Landlords of Prince Edward Island by : Rusty Bittermann
Download or read book Lady Landlords of Prince Edward Island written by Rusty Bittermann and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 2008-06-19 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 1767 decision to divide Prince Edward Island among elite British grantees shaped Island history for more than a century. Lady Landlords of Prince Edward Island examines this history through the lives of four women who, due to the vagaries of family formation and inheritance, became Island landlords. As absentee owners of large estates, each of the four women faced challenges from those who wanted land redistributed in freehold lots to actual settlers. Their individual management strategies were determined in part by class standing and marital status, as well as individual eccentricities and prejudices. Drawing on family and official papers, Rusty Bittermann and Margaret McCallum provide engaging portraits of these women - orphaned heiress, prudent wife and property manager, countess estranged from her husband, independent spinster - as they negotiated relations of power and privilege in a domain dominated by men. Lady Landlords of Prince Edward Island is a compelling narrative that provides a unique perspective on landed society in England in the age of industrialization and reform, making an important contribution to trans-Atlantic, British social, legal, and women's histories.
Book Synopsis Policing the Metropolis of Scotland: A History of the Police and Systems of Police in Edinburgh & Edinburghshire, 1770-1833 by :
Download or read book Policing the Metropolis of Scotland: A History of the Police and Systems of Police in Edinburgh & Edinburghshire, 1770-1833 written by and published by Turlough Publishers. This book was released on with total page 550 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Higher World written by Michael Fry and published by Birlinn. This book was released on 2014-11-01 with total page 430 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This new and compelling history of eighteenth-century Scotland paints a rich and detailed portrait of the country at a time when it was of truly global significance. This journey from the Union of 1707 to its centenary and beyond takes in vivid scenes from all over the country, and ranges up and down the social scale from peeresses to prostitutes, from lairds to lunatics, and covers every major aspect of national life from agriculture to philosophy. Whilst most other Scottish histories published in recent times concentrate on social and economic history, Michael Fry demonstrates that any true understanding of the nation, in the past as in the present, needs to pay at least as much attention to politics and culture. The social and the economic history show us how Scotland was integrated into Britain, whilst the political history and the cultural history show us why the integration was never complete. In this book both sides are surveyed, offering new perspectives on Scotland's experience within the Union.
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Book Synopsis Scotland, the Caribbean and the Atlantic world, 1750–1820 by : Douglas Hamilton
Download or read book Scotland, the Caribbean and the Atlantic world, 1750–1820 written by Douglas Hamilton and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2013-07-19 with total page 414 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first book wholly devoted to assessing the array of links between Scotland and the Caribbean in the later eighteenth century. It uses a wide range of archival sources to paint a detailed picture of the lives of thousands of Scots who sought fortunes and opportunities, as Burns wrote, ‘across th’ Atlantic roar’. It outlines the range of their occupations as planters, merchants, slave owners, doctors, overseers, and politicians, and shows how Caribbean connections affected Scottish society during the period of ‘improvement’. The book highlights the Scots’ reinvention of the system of clanship to structure their social relations in the empire and finds that involvement in the Caribbean also bound Scots and English together in a shared Atlantic imperial enterprise and played a key role in the emergence of the British nation and the Atlantic World.
Book Synopsis History of Scotland: Volume 3, From the Revolution of 1689 to the Year 1910 by : P. Hume Brown
Download or read book History of Scotland: Volume 3, From the Revolution of 1689 to the Year 1910 written by P. Hume Brown and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2012-03-29 with total page 521 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This third volume, reprinted in 1911, covers the period from the end of the Glorious Revolution in 1689 to 1910.
Book Synopsis History of Scotland: From the Revolution of 1689 to the Disruption by : Peter Hume Brown
Download or read book History of Scotland: From the Revolution of 1689 to the Disruption written by Peter Hume Brown and published by . This book was released on 1909 with total page 524 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Uniting the Kingdom? by : Alexander Grant
Download or read book Uniting the Kingdom? written by Alexander Grant and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2002-11 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A group of Britain's most prestigious historians assemble to explore the formation of the UK, its history and its identity. Traditional regional and chronological frontiers are broken down as mediev- alists, modernists and early modernists debate.
