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Author : Sir John Sinclair
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 618 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Statistical Account of Scotland written by Sir John Sinclair and published by . This book was released on 1793 with total page 618 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Sir John Sinclair
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 544 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Statistical Account of Scotland written by Sir John Sinclair and published by . This book was released on 1791 with total page 544 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Jane McDermid
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135783381
Total Pages : 218 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (357 download)
Download or read book The Schooling of Working-Class Girls in Victorian Scotland written by Jane McDermid and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-01-11 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The portrayal of Scotland as a particularly patriarchal society has traditionally had the effect of marginalizing Scottish women, both teachers and students, in both Scottish and British history. The Schooling of Working-Class Girls in Victorian Scotland examines and challenges this assumption and analyzes in detail the course of events which has led to a more enlightened system. Education was, and is, seen as integral to Scottish distinctiveness, but the Victorian period saw anxious debate about the impact of outside influences at a time when Scottish society seemed to be fracturing. This book examines the gender-blindness of the educational tradition, with its notion of the 'democratic intellect', testing the claim of superiority for the Scottish system, and questioning the assumption that Scottish women were either passive victims or willing dupes of a peculiarly patriarchal ideal. Considering the influences of the related ideologies of patriarchy and domesticity, and the crucial importance of the local and regional economic context, in focusing on female education, this book provides a much wider comparative study of Scottish society during a period of tremendous upheaval and a perceived crisis in national identity, in which women, as well as men, participated.
Author : Sophia Kingshill
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 140906171X
Total Pages : 596 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (9 download)
Download or read book The Lore of Scotland written by Sophia Kingshill and published by Random House. This book was released on 2012-08-30 with total page 596 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Scotland's rich past and varied landscape have inspired an extraordinary array of legends and beliefs, and in The Lore of Scotland Jennifer Westwood and Sophia Kingshill bring together many of the finest and most intriguing: stories of heroes and bloody feuds, tales of giants, fairies, and witches, and accounts of local customs and traditions. Their range extends right across the country, from the Borders with their haunting ballads, via Glasgow, site of St Mungo's miracles, to the fateful battlefield of Culloden, and finally to the Shetlands, home of the seal-people. More than simply retelling these stories, The Lore of Scotland explores their origins, showing how and when they arose and investigating what basis - if any - they have in historical fact. In the process, it uncovers the events that inspired Shakespeare's Macbeth, probes the claim that Mary King's Close is the most haunted street in Edinburgh, and examines the surprising truth behind the fame of the MacCrimmons, Skye's unsurpassed bagpipers. Moreover, it reveals how generations of Picts, Vikings, Celtic saints and Presbyterian reformers shaped the myriad tales that still circulate, and, from across the country, it gathers together legends of such renowned figures as Sir William Wallace, St Columba, and the great warrior Fingal. The result is a thrilling journey through Scotland's legendary past and an endlessly fascinating account of the traditions and beliefs that play such an important role in its heritage.
Author : Sir John Sinclair
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 772 pages
Book Rating : 4.M/5 ( download)
Download or read book Analysis of the Statistical Account of Scotland written by Sir John Sinclair and published by . This book was released on 1831 with total page 772 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Richard Vaudry
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
ISBN 13 : 1487514867
Total Pages : 399 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (875 download)
Download or read book Andrew Fernando Holmes written by Richard Vaudry and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2020-01-29 with total page 399 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first comprehensive study of the life and work of Andrew Fernando Holmes, famous for his work on congenital heart disease. Physician, surgeon, natural historian, educator, Protestant evangelical. Andrew Fernando Holmes’s name is synonymous with the McGill medical faculty and with the discovery of a congenital heart malformation known as the "Holmes heart." Born in captivity at Cadiz, Spain, Holmes immigrated to Lower Canada in the first decade of the nineteenth century. He arrived in a province that was experiencing profound social, economic, and cultural change as the result of a long process of integration into the British Atlantic world. A transatlantic perspective, therefore, undergirds this biography, from an exploration of how Holmes’s family members were participants in an Atlantic world of trade and consumption, to explaining how his educational experiences at Edinburgh and Paris informed his approach to the practice of medicine, medical education, and medical politics.
Author : John Booker
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351919849
Total Pages : 643 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (519 download)
Download or read book Maritime Quarantine written by John Booker and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-12-05 with total page 643 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As a maritime trading nation, the issue of quarantine was one of constant concern to Britain. Whilst naturally keen to promote international trade, there was a constant fear of importing potentially devastating diseases into British territories. In this groundbreaking study, John Booker examines the methods by which British authorities sought to keep their territories free from contagious diseases, and the reactions to, and practical consequences of, these policies. Drawing upon a wealth of documentary sources, Dr Booker paints a vivid picture of this controversial episode of British political and mercantile history, concluding that quarantine was a peculiarly British disaster, doomed to inefficiency by the royal prerogative and concerns for trade and individual liberty. Whilst it may not have fatally hindered the economic development of Britain, it certainly irritated the City and the mercantile elites and remained a source of constant political friction for many years. As such, an understanding of British maritime quarantine provides a fuller picture of attitudes to trade, culture, politics and medicine in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.
Author : Thomas McStay Adams
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 135027626X
Total Pages : 443 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (52 download)
Download or read book Europe’s Welfare Traditions Since 1500, Volume 2 written by Thomas McStay Adams and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2023-01-26 with total page 443 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tracing the interwoven traditions of modern welfare states in Europe over five centuries, Thomas McStay Adams explores social welfare from Portugal, France, and Italy to Britain, Belgium and Germany. He shows that the provision of assistance to those in need has faced recognizably similar challenges from the 16th century through to the present: how to allocate aid equitably (and with dignity); how to give support without undermining autonomy (and motivation); and how to balance private and public spheres of action and responsibility. Across two authoritative volumes, Adams reveals how social welfare administrators, critics, and improvers have engaged in a constant exchange of models and experience locally and across Europe. The narrative begins with the founding of the Casa da Misericordia of Lisbon in 1498, a model replicated throughout Portugal and its empire, and ends with the relaunch of a social agenda for the European Union at the meeting of the Council of Europe in Lisbon in 2000. Volume 1, which focuses on the period from 1500 to 1700, discusses the concepts of 'welfare' and 'tradition'. It looks at how 16th-century humanists joined with merchants and lawyers to renew traditional charity in distinctly modern forms, and how the discipline of religious reform affected the exercise of political authority and the promotion of economic productivity. Volume 2 examines 18th-century bienfaisance which secularized a Christian humanist notion of beneficence, producing new and sharply contested assertions of social citizenship. It goes on to consider how national struggles to establish comprehensive welfare states since the second half of the 19th century built on the power of the vote as politicians, pushed by activists and advised by experts, appealed to a growing class of industrial workers. Lastly, it looks at how 20th-century welfare states addressed aspirations for social citizenship while the institutional framework for European economic cooperation came to fruition
Author : Tim Grass
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1620326205
Total Pages : 389 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (23 download)
Download or read book The Lord's Watchman written by Tim Grass and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2012-10-09 with total page 389 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The nineteenth-century Scottish theologian Edward Irving has been the subject of a remarkable resurgence of interest in recentÊdecades, but many studies focus on specific aspects of his thought. This biographyÊportrays Irving's life and ministry as a whole, drawing on previously unused letters as well as his published writings to offer a readable and well-grounded narrative. Apart from the personal interest of this story, Irving's thought and practice as a preacher and pastoral theologian remains worthy of serious attention.
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Publisher : Turlough Publishers
ISBN 13 : 0956791727
Total Pages : 370 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (567 download)
Download or read book A Tale of Two Cities: Concerning the Robbery in July, 1811 of the Paisley Union Bank at Glasgow written by and published by Turlough Publishers. This book was released on with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Faculty of Procurators in Glascow. Library
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1120 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Catalogue of the Books in the Library of the Faculty of Procurators in Glasgow written by Faculty of Procurators in Glascow. Library and published by . This book was released on 1903 with total page 1120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1050 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)
Download or read book The Publishers' Circular and Booksellers' Record written by and published by . This book was released on 1908 with total page 1050 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1126 pages
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Download or read book The Publisher written by and published by . This book was released on 1904 with total page 1126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Christoph Bode
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317324315
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (173 download)
Download or read book Romantic Localities written by Christoph Bode and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-10-06 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Romantic Localities explores the ways in which Romantic-period writers of varying nationalities responded to languages, landscapes – both geographical and metaphorical – and literatures.
Author : David Finkelstein
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
ISBN 13 : 0748628843
Total Pages : 544 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (486 download)
Download or read book Edinburgh History of the Book in Scotland, Volume 4: Professionalism and Diversity 1880-2000 written by David Finkelstein and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2007-11-23 with total page 544 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this volume a range of distinguished contributors provide an original analysis of the book in Scotland during a period that has been until now greatly under-researched and little understood. The issues covered by this volume include the professionalisation of publishing, its scale, technological developments, the role of the state, including the library service, the institutional structure of the book in Scotland, industrial relations, union activity and organisation, women and the Scottish book, and the economics of publishing. Separate chapters cover Scottish publishing and literary culture, publishing genres, the art of print culture, distribution, and authors and readers. The volume also includes an innovative use of illustrative case studies.
Author : Callum G Brown
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
ISBN 13 : 074869921X
Total Pages : 230 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (486 download)
Download or read book Religion and Society in Scotland since 1707 written by Callum G Brown and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 1997-10-01 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Callum Brown examines the role of religion in the making of modern Scottish society.
Author : Phil Dodds
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
ISBN 13 : 1783277033
Total Pages : 381 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (832 download)
Download or read book The Geographies of Enlightenment Edinburgh written by Phil Dodds and published by Boydell & Brewer. This book was released on 2022 with total page 381 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Edinburgh was an Enlightenment city of regional, national and global influence. But how did the people of Enlightenment Edinburgh understand and order their world? How did they encounter, compare and produce different kinds of spaces, from the urban to the world scale? And how did this city set the universal standards by which other places should be judged and transformed? The Geographies of Enlightenment Edinburgh answers these questions by exploring the thousands of urban plans, county surveys, travel accounts and encyclopaedias that passed through a busy Edinburgh bookshop over four decades. It reveals how these geographical publications were produced and shared, and sheds light on the people who bought and used them - including moral philosophers, silk merchants, school teachers, ship's surgeons and slave owners. This is the story of how specific methods of mapping space came ultimately to predict and organize it, creating a new world in Edinburgh's image. By connecting global processes of knowledge production to intimate accounts of its reception in the city, this book deepens our understanding of the Scottish Enlightenment and the world it made.
