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Author : Gentleman in the country
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Total Pages : 12 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (21 download)
Download or read book A Letter from a Gentleman in the Country to His Friend at Edinburgh: written by Gentleman in the country and published by . This book was released on 1696 with total page 12 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : John Hill Burton
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Total Pages : 548 pages
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Download or read book History of Scotland, from the Revolution to the Extinction of the Last Jacobite Insurrection. (1689-1748) written by John Hill Burton and published by . This book was released on 1853 with total page 548 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : John Hill Burton
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Total Pages : 576 pages
Book Rating : 4.B/5 (1 download)
Download or read book History of Scotland from the Revolution to the Extinction of the Last Jacobite Insurrection written by John Hill Burton and published by . This book was released on 1853 with total page 576 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Douglas Watt
Publisher : Luath Press Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1909912913
Total Pages : 449 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (99 download)
Download or read book The Price of Scotland written by Douglas Watt and published by Luath Press Ltd. This book was released on 2014-02-17 with total page 449 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Price of Scotland covers a well-known episode in Scottish history, the ill-fated Darien Scheme. It recounts for the first time in almost forty years, the history of the Company of Scotland, looking at previously unexamined evidence and considering the failure in light of the Company's financial records. Douglas Watt offers the reader a new way of looking at this key moment in history, from the attempt to raise capital in London in 1695 through to the shareholder bail-out as part of the Treaty of Union in 1707. With the tercentenary of the Union in May 2007, The Price of Scotland provides a timely reassessment of this national disaster. REVIEWS Douglas Watt has brought an economist's eye and poet's sensibility in the Price of Scotland... to show definitively... that over-ambition and mismanagement, rather than English mendacity, doomed Scotland's imperial ambitions. - THE OBSERVER The Price of Scotland treats Darien as a financial mania. - THE FINANCIAL TIMES Exceptionally well written, it reads like a novel. As I say - if you're not Scottish and live here - read it. If you're Scottish read it anyway. It's a very, very good book. - i-on magazine The must-have book on the events in advance of the Act of Union that brought Scotland and England together in 1707 is Douglas Watt's The Price of Scotland. It's a fantastic run-through of the "catastrophic failure" of the Darien Scheme - the creation of the Company of Scotland to establish a Central American colony. THE FINANCIAL TIMES
Author : Richard Whatmore
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691206643
Total Pages : 512 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (912 download)
Download or read book Terrorists, Anarchists, and Republicans written by Richard Whatmore and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2021-12-14 with total page 512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A bloody episode that epitomised the political dilemmas of the eighteenth century In 1798, members of the United Irishmen were massacred by the British amid the crumbling walls of a half-built town near Waterford in Ireland. Many of the Irish were republicans inspired by the French Revolution, and the site of their demise was known as Geneva Barracks. The Barracks were the remnants of an experimental community called New Geneva, a settlement of Calvinist republican rebels who fled the continent in 1782. The British believed that the rectitude and industriousness of these imported revolutionaries would have a positive effect on the Irish populace. The experiment was abandoned, however, after the Calvinists demanded greater independence and more state money for their project. Terrorists, Anarchists, and Republicans tells the story of a utopian city inspired by a spirit of liberty and republican values being turned into a place where republicans who had fought for liberty were extinguished by the might of empire. Richard Whatmore brings to life a violent age in which powerful states like Britain and France intervened in the affairs of smaller, weaker countries, justifying their actions on the grounds that they were stopping anarchists and terrorists from destroying society, religion and government. The Genevans and the Irish rebels, in turn, saw themselves as advocates of republican virtue, willing to sacrifice themselves for liberty, rights and the public good. Terrorists, Anarchists, and Republicans shows how the massacre at Geneva Barracks marked an end to the old Europe of diverse political forms, and the ascendancy of powerful states seeking empire and markets—in many respects the end of enlightenment itself.
Author : Gerald Horne
Publisher : NYU Press
ISBN 13 : 1583676635
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (836 download)
Download or read book The Apocalypse of Settler Colonialism written by Gerald Horne and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2018-03-12 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Account of of the slave trade and its lasting effects on modern life, based on the history of the Eastern Seaboard of North America, the Caribbean, Africa, and what is now Great Britain"--
Author : Eric J. Graham
Publisher : Birlinn Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1788853903
Total Pages : 351 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (888 download)
Download or read book A Maritime History of Scotland, 1650-1790 written by Eric J. Graham and published by Birlinn Ltd. This book was released on 2015-04-21 with total page 351 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The period 1650 to 1790 was such a turbulent one for Scottish seafarers that much of this fast-flowing narrative reads like Treasure Island. Colourful characters abound in a story teeming with incident and excitement: John Paul Jones descends upon the Scottish coast creating widespread panic; press gangs prowl the coastal towns; wartime conditions turn merchantmen into privateers fighting the French, the Spanish and the American Colonists – almost anyone flying a different flag; quaintly named vessels like The Provoked Cheesemaker are on the lookout for trouble. And the stakes were high. Glasgow became wealthy through the tobacco trade. Glasgow merchantmen could beat the English ships and sail to Chesapeake Bay in record time. Eric Graham traces the development of the Scottish marine and its institutions during a formative period, when state intervention and warfare at sea in the pursuit of merchantilist goals largely determined the course of events. He charts Scotland's frustrated attempts to join England in the Atlantic economy and so secure her prosperity – an often bitter relationship that culminated in the Darien Disaster. In the years that followed, maritime affairs were central to the move to embrace the full incorporating Act of 1707. After 1707, Scottish maritime aspirations flourished under the protection of the British Navigation Acts and the windfalls of the endemic warfare at sea.
Author : Sotheby, Wilkinson & Hodge
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Total Pages : 540 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (318 download)
Download or read book Catalogue written by Sotheby, Wilkinson & Hodge and published by . This book was released on 1905 with total page 540 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Total Pages : 1018 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
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Author : Leith Davis
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1316510816
Total Pages : 319 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (165 download)
Download or read book Mediating Cultural Memory in Britain and Ireland written by Leith Davis and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2022-03-17 with total page 319 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first book to analyze the interplay of cultural memory, politics and the changing media ecology of early eighteenth-century Britain.
Author : April Lee Hatfield
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN 13 : 151282402X
Total Pages : 321 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (128 download)
Download or read book Boundaries of Belonging written by April Lee Hatfield and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2023-04-25 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the decades following England's 1655 conquest of Spanish Jamaica, the western Caribbean became the site of overlapping and competing claims--to land, maritime spaces, and people. English Jamaica, located in the midst of Spanish American port towns and shipping lanes, was central to numerous projects of varying legality, aimed at acquiring Spanish American wealth. Those projects were backdrop to a wide-ranging movement of people who made their own claims to political membership in developing colonial societies, and by extension, in Atlantic empires. Boundaries of Belonging follows the stories of these individuals--licensed traders, smugglers, freedom seekers, religious refugees, pirates, and interlopers--who moved through the contested spaces of the western Caribbean. Though some were English and Spanish, many others were Sephardic, Tule, French, Kalabari, Scottish, Dutch, or Brandenberg. They also included creole people who identified themselves by their local place of origin or residence--as Jamaican, Cuban, or Panamanian. As they crossed into and out of rival imperial jurisdictions, many either sought or rejected Spanish or English subjecthood, citing their place of birth, their nation or ethnicity, their religion, their loyalty, or their economic or military contributions to colony or empire. Colonial and metropolitan officials weighed those claims as they tried to impose sovereignty over diverse and mobile people in a region of disputed and shifting jurisdictions. These contests over who belonged in what empire and why, and over what protections such belonging conferred, in turn helped to determine who would be included within a developing law of nations.
Author : David Onnekink
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317069870
Total Pages : 390 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (17 download)
Download or read book Redefining William III written by David Onnekink and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-04-08 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: William III (1650-1702) was Stadholder in the United Provinces and King of England, Scotland and Ireland. His reign has always intrigued historians, as it encompassed such defining events as the Dutch year of Disaster (1672), the Glorious Revolution (1688) and the ensuing wars against France. Although William has played a pivotal role in the political and religious history of his countries, the significance and international impact of his reign is still not very well understood. This volume contains a number of innovative essays from specialists in the field, which have evolved from papers delivered to an international conference held at the University of Utrecht in December 2002. By focusing on the entire period 1650-1702 from an international perspective, the volume moves historical discussion away from the traditional analysis of single events to encompass William's entire reign from a variety of political, religious, intellectual and cultural positions. In so doing it offers a new perspective on the British and Dutch reigns of William III, as well as the wider European milieu.
Author : Edinburgh Bibliographical Society
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Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (89 download)
Download or read book Publications of the Edinburgh Bibliographical Society written by Edinburgh Bibliographical Society and published by . This book was released on 1906 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : John Robertson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521029889
Total Pages : 396 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (298 download)
Download or read book A Union for Empire written by John Robertson and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2006-11-02 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Essays by leading historians which explore the political significance of the Anglo-Scottish Union of 1707.
Author : John Scott
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Total Pages : 322 pages
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Download or read book A Bibliography of Printed Documents and Books Relating to the Darien Company ... written by John Scott and published by . This book was released on 1904 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : James Ludovic Lindsay Earl of Crawford
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Total Pages : 1302 pages
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Download or read book Bibliotheca Lindesiana ... written by James Ludovic Lindsay Earl of Crawford and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 1302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Sotheby & Co. (London, England)
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Total Pages : 684 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Catalogues of Sales written by Sotheby & Co. (London, England) and published by . This book was released on 1921 with total page 684 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
