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Author : Mark Napier
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Total Pages : 446 pages
Book Rating : 4.R/5 (5 download)
Download or read book Memorials of Montrose and his times [ed. by M. Napier]. written by Mark Napier and published by . This book was released on 1848 with total page 446 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Sotheby, Wilkinson & Hodge
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Total Pages : 476 pages
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Download or read book Catalogue written by Sotheby, Wilkinson & Hodge and published by . This book was released on 1903 with total page 476 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Thomas Duffus Hardy
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Total Pages : 474 pages
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Download or read book Descriptive Catalogue of Materials Relating to the History of Great Britain and Ireland, to the End of the Reign of Henry VII written by Thomas Duffus Hardy and published by . This book was released on 1862 with total page 474 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Julian Goodare
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 0191553972
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (915 download)
Download or read book The Government of Scotland 1560-1625 written by Julian Goodare and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2004-10-14 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In The Government of Scotland 1560-1625 Goodare shows how Scotland was governed during the transition from Europe's decentralized medieval realms to modern sovereign states. The expanding institutions of government - crown, parliament, privy council, local courts - are detailed, but the book is structured around an analysis of governmental processes. A new framework is offered for understanding the concept of 'centre and localities': centralization happened in the localities. Various interest groups participated in government and influenced its decisions. The nobility, in particular, exercised influence at every level. There was also English influence, both before and after the union of crowns in 1603. It is argued that the crown's continuing involvement after 1603 shows the common idea of 'absentee monarchy' to be misconceived. Goodare also pays particular attention to the harsh impact of government in the Highlands - where the chiefs were not full members of 'Scottish' political society - and on the common people - who were also excluded from normal political participation.
Author : Neil Stacy
Publisher : Birlinn Ltd
ISBN 13 : 0857909886
Total Pages : 430 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (579 download)
Download or read book The Haldanes of Gleneagles written by Neil Stacy and published by Birlinn Ltd. This book was released on 2017-09-28 with total page 430 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Haldanes have been in Scotland for over 800 years, and their story illustrates many of the defining themes of Scotland's history. Haldanes played significant roles in the Bruce war of independence, the political upheavals which accompanied the establishment of the Stewart dynasty, the religious struggles of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, the Darien Scheme and the Act of Union, the Jacobite rebellions, the development of the East India Company, and in the theological controversies of the nineteenth century. In the twentieth century, Haldanes are still to be found in the public eye with some influence on matters of national significance. In this book, Neil Stacy follows the fortunes of the family, highlighting the extraordinary contribution they have made in so many areas as well as uncovering some of the more colourful episodes in the family's history, such as long-buried secrets of romance in the teeth of parental opposition, a military career threatened by a youthful liaison with a blackmailing barmaid, and an attempt to run a temperance hotel in the western Highlands which ended in high farce.
Author : Matthew Ward
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3030377679
Total Pages : 302 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (33 download)
Download or read book Loyalty to the Monarchy in Late Medieval and Early Modern Britain, c.1400-1688 written by Matthew Ward and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2020-06-30 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the place of loyalty in the relationship between the monarchy and their subjects in late medieval and early modern Britain. It focuses on a period in which political and religious upheaval tested the bonds of loyalty between ruler and ruled. The era also witnessed changes in how loyalty was developed and expressed. The first section focuses on royal propaganda and expressions of loyalty from the gentry and nobility under the Yorkist and early Tudor monarchs, as well as the fifteenth-century Scottish monarchy. The chapters illustrate late-medieval conceptions of loyalty, exploring how they manifested themselves and how they persisted and developed into early modernity. Loyalty to the later Tudors and early Stuarts is scrutinised in the second section, gauging the growing level of dissent in the build-up to the British Civil Wars of the seventeenth century. The final section dissects the role that the concept of loyalty played during and after the Civil Wars, looking at how divergent groups navigated this turbulent period and examining the ways in which loyalty could be used as a means of surviving the upheaval.
Author : Julian Goodare
Publisher : Clarendon Press
ISBN 13 : 0191542881
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (915 download)
Download or read book State and Society in Early Modern Scotland written by Julian Goodare and published by Clarendon Press. This book was released on 1999-09-23 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first full scholarly study of state formation and the exercise of state power in Scotland. It sets the Scottish state in a British and European context, revealing that Scotland — like larger and better-known states — developed a more integrated governmental system in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. This study provides an invaluable new contribution to the history of Scotland. Julian Goodare shows how the magnates ceased to exercise autonomous local power, and instead managed the new administrative structure through client networks. The state no longer drew its main revenues from land, but developed new taxes; its fighting forces were modernized and detached from landed power. With the Reformation, powerful church institutions were created, and were gradually integrated into the state. The states territorial integrity increased, giving it a closer and more troubled relationship with the Highlands. Scotland remained a sovereign state even after the union of crowns in 1603, but it was finally absorbed by England in 1707, and Dr Goodare examines the long-term context of this development.
Author : James Thomson Gibson Craig
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Total Pages : 720 pages
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Author : George Peabody Library
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 634 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (555 download)
Download or read book Catalogue of the Library of the Peabody Institute of the City of Baltimore ... written by George Peabody Library and published by . This book was released on 1889 with total page 634 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : George Kassimeris
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317000242
Total Pages : 396 pages
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Download or read book Warrior's Dishonour written by George Kassimeris and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-02-17 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The characteristic act of men at war is not killing. It is killing by committing shocking and unspeakable atrocities, when circumstances permit. What drives ordinary people into hatred, genocide, inhumanity and evil? What turns friends and neighbours against each other with such savagery? Where does such barbarity come from? This collection examines the anarchy, cruelty and overwhelming confusion of modern warfare. In particular it analyzes: ¢ what happens when morality vanishes from the battlefield and why torture is endemic in modern warfare; ¢ how human rights, in times of war, lose meaning as a set of principles; ¢ whether official propaganda and enemy demonization make barbaric behaviour easier; ¢ how we can develop cultures opposed to torture that damage the legitimacy of our societies. Through a wealth of case studies that have been carefully selected in terms of their themes, approaches and methodologies, this comprehensive volume provokes discussion and enhances understanding from a variety of disciplinary perspectives.
Author : Jane H. Ohlmeyer
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521650830
Total Pages : 316 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (58 download)
Download or read book Political Thought in Seventeenth-Century Ireland written by Jane H. Ohlmeyer and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2000-06-29 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides an in-depth analysis of seventeenth-century Irish political thought and culture.
Author : Campbell Alastair Campbell
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
ISBN 13 : 1474408389
Total Pages : 338 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (744 download)
Download or read book History of Clan Campbell written by Campbell Alastair Campbell and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2015-01-28 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Volume 1 of this history ended with the chief and his followers dead on Flodden field. Volume 2 describes the Clan's recovery. Within five years Colin, 3rd Earl, was Vice-Regent and Lieutenant of the kingdom. Within five decades the Clan had extended their possessions to the Western Isles, reinforced their Highland dominance, and become the most powerful family in the nation. How they managed to remain so for a century and a half, despite everything history could throw at them, is the subject of Alastair Campbell's fascinating, vivid and well-paced narrative.Religious conflict in Scotland during almost the whole of the period was devastating. The Crown vacillated between Reformed, Episcopal, and Catholic doctrine whether it was based in Edinburgh or, after 1603, in London. With one exception by contrast the Campbell chiefs held firm to the Protestant Reformation. In 1556 Colin, 4th Earl, invited John Knox to preach at Inveraray; 90 years later Archibald, 8th Earl and first Marquess of Argyll, led the Army of the Solemn League and Covenant. Late in the sixteenth century, however, a crack appeared in the remarkable unity of the Clan: a nationwide conspiracy involving the Campbells of Glenorchy, Lochnell, and Ardkinglas, led to the death of the Bonnie Earl of Moray, the murder of Campbell of Cawdor, and two attempts on the life of 'Grim-faced Archie' the 7th Earl who subsequently turned Roman Catholic and in 1617 left to serve the King of Spain. Again, however, the Clan recovered. One of the conspirators, Black Duncan Campbell of Glenorchy, scourge of the MacGregors, even received a royal pardon and a Baronetcy. Alastair Campbell describes the onset of the religious and civil wars in the seventeenth century. The greatest figure in Scotland then was the first Marquess of Argyll, an ardent Protestant, who was pitted against the charismatic cavalier, the Marquess of Montrose. On behalf of church and crown in Scotland each led governments and armies against one a
Author : John Buchan
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 444 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Montrose written by John Buchan and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 444 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Peter Hume Brown
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Total Pages : 510 pages
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Download or read book History of Scotland: From the accession of Mary Stewart to the revolution of 1689 written by Peter Hume Brown and published by . This book was released on 1902 with total page 510 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Peter Donald
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521372350
Total Pages : 136 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (723 download)
Download or read book An Uncounselled King written by Peter Donald and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1990-10-26 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A new perspective on the Scottish troubles in the crisis years of 1637-41
Author : John Buchan
Publisher : Good Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 6021 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (596 download)
Download or read book The Complete Works of John Buchan (Unabridged) written by John Buchan and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2024-01-11 with total page 6021 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Complete Works of John Buchan (Unabridged) is a comprehensive collection of the acclaimed author's novels, including the iconic 'The Thirty-Nine Steps.' Buchan's writing style is characterized by its mastery of suspense and adventure, making his works timeless classics in the world of literature. His ability to intertwine historical events with thrilling plots set him apart as a pioneering figure in the genre of spy fiction. The collection showcases Buchan's knack for creating intricate narratives that keep readers engaged from start to finish. With a keen eye for detail and a talent for crafting memorable characters, Buchan's work continues to captivate audiences around the globe. John Buchan, a Scottish author and historian, draws on his own experiences in diplomacy and intelligence to bring a sense of authenticity to his storytelling. His background as a war correspondent during World War I lends depth and credibility to his depictions of espionage and political intrigue. Buchan's unique perspective adds layers of complexity to his narratives, making them both entertaining and thought-provoking. I recommend The Complete Works of John Buchan (Unabridged) to readers who enjoy thrilling tales of adventure and espionage. Buchan's masterful storytelling and captivating characters make this collection a must-read for anyone seeking a literary escape into a world of suspense and intrigue.
Author : Johns Hopkins University. Peabody Institute. Library
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1280 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Catalogue of the Library of the Peabody Institute of the City of Baltimore ... written by Johns Hopkins University. Peabody Institute. Library and published by . This book was released on 1961 with total page 1280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
