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Author : M. Barbieri
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 412 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (21 download)
Download or read book A Descriptive and Historical Gazetteer of the Counties of Fife, Kinross, and Clackmannan, written by M. Barbieri and published by . This book was released on 1857 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : M. Barbieri
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 412 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)
Download or read book A Descriptive and Historical Gazetteer of the Counties of Fife, Kinross, and Clackmannan, with Anecdotes, Narratives and Graphic Sketches, Moral, Political, Commercial and Agricultural written by M. Barbieri and published by . This book was released on 1857 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Emma Rothschild
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 1400838169
Total Pages : 496 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (8 download)
Download or read book The Inner Life of Empires written by Emma Rothschild and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2011-05-09 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The birth of the modern world as told through the remarkable story of one eighteenth-century family They were abolitionists, speculators, slave owners, government officials, and occasional politicians. They were observers of the anxieties and dramas of empire. And they were from one family. The Inner Life of Empires tells the intimate history of the Johnstones--four sisters and seven brothers who lived in Scotland and around the globe in the fast-changing eighteenth century. Piecing together their voyages, marriages, debts, and lawsuits, and examining their ideas, sentiments, and values, renowned historian Emma Rothschild illuminates a tumultuous period that created the modern economy, the British Empire, and the philosophical Enlightenment. One of the sisters joined a rebel army, was imprisoned in Edinburgh Castle, and escaped in disguise in 1746. Her younger brother was a close friend of Adam Smith and David Hume. Another brother was fluent in Persian and Bengali, and married to a celebrated poet. He was the owner of a slave known only as "Bell or Belinda," who journeyed from Calcutta to Virginia, was accused in Scotland of infanticide, and was the last person judged to be a slave by a court in the British isles. In Grenada, India, Jamaica, and Florida, the Johnstones embodied the connections between European, American, and Asian empires. Their family history offers insights into a time when distinctions between the public and private, home and overseas, and slavery and servitude were in constant flux. Based on multiple archives, documents, and letters, The Inner Life of Empires looks at one family's complex story to describe the origins of the modern political, economic, and intellectual world.
Author : Aeneas James George Mackay
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 436 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)
Download or read book A History of Fife and Kinross written by Aeneas James George Mackay and published by . This book was released on 1896 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Edüard Klak
Publisher : Twayne Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9780954494605
Total Pages : 127 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (946 download)
Download or read book The Register of the Fife Fallen in the Great War 1914-1919 written by Edüard Klak and published by Twayne Publishers. This book was released on 2002 with total page 127 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Alastair Gray
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780199170630
Total Pages : 158 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (76 download)
Download or read book A History of Scotland written by Alastair Gray and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a reissue of a popular text, for Standard Grade History exams. We have added 8 pages 'Into the Millennium' to update the text, and added exam questions under the new headings of Knowledge and Understanding and Line of Enquiry, at General and Credit levels.
Author : Gregor Stewart
Publisher : The History Press
ISBN 13 : 0750957824
Total Pages : 141 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (59 download)
Download or read book Haunted Kirkcaldy written by Gregor Stewart and published by The History Press. This book was released on 2014-09-01 with total page 141 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Compiled by paranormal investigator Gregor Stewart, this new book contains a chilling range of spooky tales from around Kirkcaldy. From haunted public houses, which have left both customers and staff terrified, to the ruins of the ancient Ravenscraig Castle, which still attract a mysterious visitor many years after their death, this collection of ghostly goings-on, phantom footsteps and playful poltergeists is sure to appeal to everyone interested in the paranormal and the history of Fife's largest town. Richly illustrated with over fifty images, Haunted Kirkcaldy is guaranteed to make your blood run cold.
Author : Scottish History Society
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 480 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (319 download)
Download or read book Publications of the Scottish History Society written by Scottish History Society and published by . This book was released on 1917 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Miles Glendinning
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780748607419
Total Pages : 656 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (74 download)
Download or read book A History of Scottish Architecture written by Miles Glendinning and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 656 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This compact yet comprehensive history of Scottish architecture combines factual description of the vast & fertile range of visual forms & key architects in each period with a wide-ranging analysis of their social, ideological & historical context.
Author : Daniel Gray
Publisher : Luath Press Ltd
ISBN 13 : 190991228X
Total Pages : 225 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (99 download)
Download or read book Stramash! written by Daniel Gray and published by Luath Press Ltd. This book was released on 2013-07-22 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fatigued by bloated big-game football and bored of a samey big cities, Daniel Gray went in search of small town Scotland and its teams. At the time when the Scottish club game is drifting towards its lowest ebb once more, Stramash singularly falls to wring its hands and address the state of the game, preferring instead to focus on Bobby Mann's waistline. Part travelogue, part history and part mistakenly spilling ketchup on the face of a small child, Stramash takes an uplifting look at the country's nether regions. Using the excuse of a match to visit places from Dumfries to Dingwall, Gray surveys Scotland's towns and teams in their present state. Stramash accomplishes the feats of visiting Dumfries without mentioning Robert Burns, being positive about Cumbernauld and linking Elgin City to Lenin. It is ae fond look at Scotland as you've never seen it before. REVIEWS: 'There have been previous attempts by authors to explore the off-the-beaten paths of the Scottish football landscape, but Daniel Gray's volume is in another league' - THE SCOTSMAN 'Truly splendid' - ARTHUR MONTFORD 'An excellent book about the country's smaller teams - [Stramash] captures the vague romance that still clings to these smaller Scottish clubs. It will make a must-read for every non-Old Firm football fan - and for many Rangers and Celtic supporters too' - DAILY Record' As he takes in a match at each stopping-off point, Gray presents little portraits of small Scottish towns, relating histories of declining industry, radical politics and the connection between a team and its community. It's a brilliant way to rediscover Scotland' - THE HERALD' A great read, because Gray doesn't write about just football, he uses football as an excuse to explore the histories of small towns in Scotland' - THE SKINNY 'Why do the Gers and Hoops have retail outlets in the capital? Why do buses depart for Glasgow on a Saturday morning from every corner of Scotland? Gray's book is a splendid attempt to answer these questions, and more besides - The result is sociology at its best, which is to say eminently readable - Stramash may turn out to be a memoir of the way we were, and an epitaph' - SUNDAY HERALD' I defy anyone to read Stramash and not fall in love with Scottish football's blessed eccentricities all over again - Funny enough to bring on involuntary laugh out loud moments' - THE SCOTTISH FOOTBALL BLOG
Author : Charles D. Cashdollar
Publisher : Penn State Press
ISBN 13 : 9780271043555
Total Pages : 356 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (435 download)
Download or read book Spiritual Home written by Charles D. Cashdollar and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2010-11-01 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Spiritual Home explores congregational life inside British and American Reformed churches between 1830 and 1915. At a time when scholars have become interested in the day-to-day experience of local congregations, this book reaches back into the nineteenth century, a critically formative period in Anglo-American religious life, to examine the historical roots of congregational life.Taking the perspective of the laity, Cashdollar ranges widely from worship and music to fund-raising and administration, from pastoral care to social work, from prayer meetings to strawberry festivals, from the sanctuary to the kitchen. Firmly rooted in broader currents of gender, class, notions of middle-class respectability, increasing expectations for personal privacy, and patterns of professionalization, he finds that there was a gradual shift in emphasis during these years from piety to fellowship. Based on records, publications, and memorabilia from about 150 congregations representing eight denominations, A Spiritual Home gives us a comprehensive, composite portrait of religious life in Victorian Britain and America.
Author : Alexander McCall Smith
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781849172721
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (727 download)
Download or read book Who Built Scotland written by Alexander McCall Smith and published by . This book was released on 2018-09-13 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Experience a new history of Scotland told through its places. Writers Kathleen Jamie, Alexander McCall Smith, Alistair Moffat, James Robertson and James Crawford pick twenty-five buildings to tell the story of the nation.Travelling across the country, from abandoned islands and lonely glens to the heart of our modern cities, these five authors seek out the diverse narrative of the Scottish people. Follow Kathleen Jamie as she searches for the traces of our first family hearths in the Cairngorms and makes a midsummer journey to Shetland to meet the unlikely new inhabitants of an Iron Age broch. Tour the wondrous and macabre Surgeons' Hall with Alexander McCall Smith, or walk with him over sacred ground to Iona's ancient Abbey. Join Alistair Moffat as he discovers a lost whisky village in the wilds of Strathconon, and climbs up through the vertiginous layers of history in Edinburgh Castle. Accompany James Robertson as he goes from the standing stones of Callanish to the humble cottage of Hugh MacDiarmid - via the engineering colossus of the Forth Rail Bridge. And journey with James Crawford from a packed crowd in Hampden Park, to an off-the-grid eco-bothy on the Isle of Eigg.Who Built Scotland is a landmark exploration of Scotland's social, political and cultural histories. Moving from Neolithic families, exiled hermits and ambitious royal dynasties to highland shieling girls, peasant poets, Enlightenment philosophers and iconoclastic artists, it places our people, our ideas and our passions at the heart of our architecture and archaeology. This is the remarkable story how we have shaped our buildings and how our buildings, in turn, have shaped us.
Author : Norman Davies
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780199253395
Total Pages : 502 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (533 download)
Download or read book God's Playground A History of Poland written by Norman Davies and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2005-02-24 with total page 502 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This new edition of Norman Davies's classic study of the history of Poland has been revised and fully updated with two new chapters to bring the story to the end of the twentieth century. The writing of Polish history, like Poland itself, has frequently fallen prey to interested parties. Professor Norman Davies adopts a sceptical stance towards all existing interpretations and attempts to bring a strong dose of common sense to his theme. He presents the most comprehensive survey in English of this frequently maligned and usually misunderstood country.
Author : Sir Arthur Mitchell
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 482 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book A Contribution to the Bibliography of Scottish Topography written by Sir Arthur Mitchell and published by . This book was released on 1917 with total page 482 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Nicholas Phillipson
Publisher : Penguin UK
ISBN 13 : 0141963565
Total Pages : 495 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (419 download)
Download or read book Adam Smith written by Nicholas Phillipson and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2010-08-05 with total page 495 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Adam Smith is celebrated all over the world as the author of The Wealth of Nations and the founder of modern economics. A few of his ideas - that of the 'Invisible Hand' of the market and that 'It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker that we expect our dinner, but from their regard to their own interest' - have become icons of the modern world. Yet Smith saw himself primarily as a philosopher rather than an economist, and would never have predicted that the ideas for which he is now best known were his most important. This book, by one of the leading scholars of the Scottish Enlightenment, shows the extent to which The Wealth of Nations and Smith's other great work, The Theory of Moral Sentiments, were part of a larger scheme to establish a grand 'Science of Man', one of the most ambitious projects of the European Enlightenment, which was to encompass law, history and aesthetics as well as economics and ethics. Nicholas Phillipson reconstructs Smith's intellectual ancestry and formation, of which he gives a radically new and convincing account. He shows what Smith took from, and what he gave to, the rapidly changing and subtly different intellectual and commercial cultures of Glasgow and Edinburgh as they entered the great years of the Scottish Enlightenment. Above all he explains how far Smith's ideas developed in dialogue with those of his closest friend, the other titan of the age, David Hume. This superb biography is now the one book which anyone interested in the founder of economics must read.
Author : Janet Foster
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1349118125
Total Pages : 691 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (491 download)
Download or read book British Archives written by Janet Foster and published by Springer. This book was released on 1995-09-27 with total page 691 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since it was first published in 1982 British Archives has established itself as the premier reference work to holdings of archives and manuscript collections throughout the UK. The 3rd edition has been extensively revised and enlarged with more than 150 new entries, further widening the range of the book. Entries are structured to show the archives of the organisation as distinct from deposited collections and significant non-manuscript material, and additional details of fax number and conservation provision are included for the first time. All the existing entries have been significantly updated, together with the select bibliography and list of useful addresses of various organisations involved in the care and custody of archives. The introduction provides an invaluable guide to researchers using archives, including a summary of the relevant legislation and a detailed description of the usual holdings of county and other local authority record offices.
Author : Francis Hindes Groome
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (129 download)
Download or read book Ordnance Gazetteer of Scotland written by Francis Hindes Groome and published by . This book was released on 1883 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
