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Book Synopsis The Drove Roads of Scotland by : A. R. B. Haldane
Download or read book The Drove Roads of Scotland written by A. R. B. Haldane and published by . This book was released on 2019-05-23 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the great classics of Scottish history, The Drove Roads of Scotland interweaves folklore, social comment and economic history in a fascinating account of Scotland's droving trade and the routes by which cattle and sheep were brought from every corner of the land to markets in central Scotland. In pastoral Scotland, the breeding and movement of livestock were fundamental to the lives of the people. The story of the drove roads takesthe reader on an engrossing tour of Scottish history, from the lawless cattle driving by reivers in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries to the legitimate movement of stock which developed after the Union of the Crowns, by which time the large-scale movement of stock to established markets had become an important part of Scotland's economy, and a vital aspect of commercial life in the Empire.
Book Synopsis Old Ways New Roads by : John Bonehill
Download or read book Old Ways New Roads written by John Bonehill and published by Birlinn. This book was released on 2021-01-07 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1725 an extensive military road and bridge-building programme was implemented by the British crown that would transform 18th-century Scotland. Aimed at pacifying some of her more inaccessible regions and containing the Jacobite threat, General Wade's new roads were designed to replace 'the old ways' and 'tedious passages' through the mountains. Over the next few decades, the laying out of these routes opened up the country to visitors from all backgrounds. After the 1760s, soldiers, surveyors and commercial travellers were joined by leisure tourists and artists, eager to explore Scotland's antiquities, natural history and scenic landscapes, and to describe their findings in words and images.In this book a number of acclaimed experts explore how the Scottish landscape was variously documented, evaluated, planned and imagined in words and images. As well as a fascinating insight into the experience of travellers and tourists, it also considers how they impacted on the experience of the Scottish people themselves.
Download or read book Roads to Power written by Jo Guldi and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2012-01-01 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Roads to Power tells the story of how Britain built the first nation connected by infrastructure, how a libertarian revolution destroyed a national economy, and how technology caused strangers to stop speaking. In early eighteenth-century Britain, nothing but dirt track ran between most towns. By 1848 the primitive roads were transformed into a network of highways connecting every village and island in the nation—and also dividing them in unforeseen ways. The highway network led to contests for control over everything from road management to market access. Peripheries like the Highlands demanded that centralized government pay for roads they could not afford, while English counties wanted to be spared the cost of underwriting roads to Scotland. The new network also transformed social relationships. Although travelers moved along the same routes, they occupied increasingly isolated spheres. The roads were the product of a new form of government, the infrastructure state, marked by the unprecedented control bureaucrats wielded over decisions relating to everyday life. Does information really work to unite strangers? Do markets unite nations and peoples in common interests? There are lessons here for all who would end poverty or design their markets around the principle of participation. Guldi draws direct connections between traditional infrastructure and the contemporary collapse of the American Rust Belt, the decline of American infrastructure, the digital divide, and net neutrality. In the modern world, infrastructure is our principal tool for forging new communities, but it cannot outlast the control of governance by visionaries.
Book Synopsis A History of the Highlands and of the Highland Clans by : James Browne
Download or read book A History of the Highlands and of the Highland Clans written by James Browne and published by . This book was released on 1849 with total page 570 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis A History of the Highlands and of the Highland Clans by : James Browne
Download or read book A History of the Highlands and of the Highland Clans written by James Browne and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2024-08-30 with total page 546 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original, first published in 1838.
Book Synopsis History of the Highlands & of the Highland Clans by : James Browne
Download or read book History of the Highlands & of the Highland Clans written by James Browne and published by . This book was released on 1834 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Lives of the Engineers: History of roads. Metcalfe. Telford by : Samuel Smiles
Download or read book Lives of the Engineers: History of roads. Metcalfe. Telford written by Samuel Smiles and published by . This book was released on 1874 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Lives of the Engineers ...: History of roads. Metcalfe, Telford. New and rev. ed. 1879 by : Samuel Smiles
Download or read book Lives of the Engineers ...: History of roads. Metcalfe, Telford. New and rev. ed. 1879 written by Samuel Smiles and published by . This book was released on 1879 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis History of roads. Metcalfe, Telford. New and rev. ed. 1897 by : Samuel Smiles
Download or read book History of roads. Metcalfe, Telford. New and rev. ed. 1897 written by Samuel Smiles and published by . This book was released on 1904 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Hidden Ways by : Alistair Moffat
Download or read book The Hidden Ways written by Alistair Moffat and published by Canongate Books. This book was released on 2017-10-05 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shortlisted for the Edward Stanford Travel Writing Awards In The Hidden Ways, Alistair Moffat traverses the lost paths of Scotland. Down Roman roads tramped by armies, warpaths and pilgrim routes, drove roads and rail roads, turnpikes and sea roads, he traces the arteries through which our nation's lifeblood has flowed in a bid to understand how our history has left its mark upon our landscape. Moffat's travels along the hidden ways reveal not only the searing beauty and magic of the Scottish landscape, but open up a different sort of history, a new way of understanding our past by walking in the footsteps of our ancestors. In retracing the forgotten paths, he charts a powerful, surprising and moving history of Scotland through the unremembered lives who have moved through it.
Book Synopsis Highways to the Highlands by : Eric Simpson
Download or read book Highways to the Highlands written by Eric Simpson and published by Amberley Publishing Limited. This book was released on 2021-07-15 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A lavishly illustrated, affectionate look at the history of roads in the Scottish highlands - an ever-popular tourist destination.
Book Synopsis The Life of Thomas Telford ... With an Introductory History of Roads and Travelling in Great Britain ... A New Edition by : Samuel Smiles
Download or read book The Life of Thomas Telford ... With an Introductory History of Roads and Travelling in Great Britain ... A New Edition written by Samuel Smiles and published by . This book was released on 1867 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Scotland's Northwest Frontier by : Alister Farquhar Matheson
Download or read book Scotland's Northwest Frontier written by Alister Farquhar Matheson and published by Troubador Publishing Ltd. This book was released on 2014-08-28 with total page 600 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The western coastal lands of the Northern Highlands are squeezed between the northern Hebrides and Drumalban, the mountainous spine of Highland Scotland. This is a region justly famed for some of the finest and most unspoilt scenery in the British Isles – but what happened here in times past? Scotland's Northwest Frontier provides the answer. For a long time, this area was a frontier zone between the medieval kingdoms of Norway and Scotland, and then between the Gaelic Lords of the Isles and the Scottish kings. In the 18th century, this remote seaboard was Britain’s ‘Afghanistan’, a dangerous region often beyond the control of London and Edinburgh. It was the last hiding place of Bonnie Prince Charlie before his escape to France after his Jacobite army had been crushed on Culloden Moor. A land of clans and lost causes, this is the story of powerful lords and warrior chiefs, Presbyterian soldiers of the Covenant and Hanoverian redcoats, Highland Clearances, road and railway builders, whisky smugglers and opium traders, from Viking times to the beginning of the 21st century. Scotland's Northwest Frontier is the entertaining story of what was for long a lawless region, followed through eight turbulent centuries. Backed by comprehensive appendices and glossary, this is one for the fireside, a travelling companion and an invaluable reference source for the bookshelf. Scotland's Northwest Frontier will appeal to those interested in Scottish history, and people who descend from Scottish clans and families.
Book Synopsis A History of the Scottish Highlands by : Sir John Scott Keltie
Download or read book A History of the Scottish Highlands written by Sir John Scott Keltie and published by . This book was released on 1875 with total page 1196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis A Treatise on Roads, their history, character and utility; being the substance of two lectures, etc by : Simeon de Witt BLOODGOOD
Download or read book A Treatise on Roads, their history, character and utility; being the substance of two lectures, etc written by Simeon de Witt BLOODGOOD and published by . This book was released on 1838 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis History of roads. Metcalfe, Telford by : Samuel Smiles
Download or read book History of roads. Metcalfe, Telford written by Samuel Smiles and published by . This book was released on 1904 with total page 500 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis A Treatise on Roads, Their History, Character, and Utility. Being the Substance of Two Lectures by : Simeon De Witt Bloodgood
Download or read book A Treatise on Roads, Their History, Character, and Utility. Being the Substance of Two Lectures written by Simeon De Witt Bloodgood and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2024-09-06 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original, first published in 1838.
