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Book Synopsis The Men of the North by : Tim Clarkson
Download or read book The Men of the North written by Tim Clarkson and published by Birlinn. This book was released on 2012-09-28 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The North Britons are the least-known among the inhabitants of early medieval Scotland. Like the Picts and Vikings they played an important role in the shaping of Scottish history during the first millennium AD but their part is often neglected or ignored. This book aims to redress the balance by tracing the history of this native Celtic people through the troubled centuries from the departure of the Romans to the arrival of the Normans. The fortunes of Strathclyde, the last-surviving kingdom of the North Britons, are studied from its emergence at Dumbarton in the fifth century to its eventual demise in the eleventh. Other kingdoms, such as the Edinburgh-based realm of Gododdin and the mysterious Rheged, are examined alongside fragments of heroic poetry celebrating the valour of their warriors. Behind the recurrent themes of warfare and political rivalry runs a parallel thread dealing with the growth of Christianity and the influence of the Church in the affairs of kings. Important ecclesiastical figures such as Ninian of Whithorn and Kentigern of Glasgow are discussed, partly in the hope of unearthing their true identities among a tangled web of sources. The closing chapters of the book look at how and why the North Britons lost their distinct identity to join their old enemies the Picts as one of Scotland's vanished nations.
Book Synopsis The History of the Scots, Picts and Britons by :
Download or read book The History of the Scots, Picts and Britons written by and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This document is the result of approx. 4 years of hard study. It is mainly designed for those individuals researching early Scottish history, though it should also be of interest to others studying pre-Roman and post-Roman British prehistory, particularly of an Arthurian nature.
Book Synopsis Scots and Britons by : Roger A. Mason
Download or read book Scots and Britons written by Roger A. Mason and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1994-08-26 with total page 339 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of essays by distinguished scholars from Britain and North America constitutes a major contribution to the process of remapping the history of early modern British political thought. Based on a seminar held at the Folger Institute's Centre for the History of British Political Thought, it takes the Union of the Anglo-Scottish crowns in 1603 as its principal focus and examines the background to and consequences of the creation of a British monarchy from a distinctively Scottish viewpoint. In the process, it provides a pioneering study of Scottish political thought from the Reformation of 1560 to the Covenanting Revolution of the 1640s, and sheds new light on the collapse of multiple kingship in the mid- seventeenth century and the Scots' participation in the invention of Britain.
Book Synopsis Scotland and the British Empire by : John M. MacKenzie
Download or read book Scotland and the British Empire written by John M. MacKenzie and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2011-10-27 with total page 345 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines the key roles of Scots in central aspects of the Atlantic and imperial economies from the eighteenth to the twentieth centuries, and demonstrates that an understanding of the relationship between Scotland and the British Empire is vital both for the understanding of the histories of that country and of many territories of the Empire.
Book Synopsis Understanding the Scots by : Moray McLaren
Download or read book Understanding the Scots written by Moray McLaren and published by . This book was released on 1956 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Pale Blue Dot written by Carl Sagan and published by Ballantine Books. This book was released on 2011-07-06 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Fascinating . . . memorable . . . revealing . . . perhaps the best of Carl Sagan’s books.”—The Washington Post Book World (front page review) In Cosmos, the late astronomer Carl Sagan cast his gaze over the magnificent mystery of the Universe and made it accessible to millions of people around the world. Now in this stunning sequel, Carl Sagan completes his revolutionary journey through space and time. Future generations will look back on our epoch as the time when the human race finally broke into a radically new frontier—space. In Pale Blue Dot, Sagan traces the spellbinding history of our launch into the cosmos and assesses the future that looms before us as we move out into our own solar system and on to distant galaxies beyond. The exploration and eventual settlement of other worlds is neither a fantasy nor luxury, insists Sagan, but rather a necessary condition for the survival of the human race. “Takes readers far beyond Cosmos . . . Sagan sees humanity’s future in the stars.”—Chicago Tribune
Book Synopsis The History of the Scots, Picts and Britons by : D. F. Dale
Download or read book The History of the Scots, Picts and Britons written by D. F. Dale and published by . This book was released on 2017-04-17 with total page 267 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is an in-depth study of the origins of the Scots, the Picts, the Britons (and even some Anglo-Saxon history) in the Dark Age period. It is a little bit controversial, but I think it is a reasonable assessment. Even if you don't accept the conclusions, hopefully you will appreciate the work that has gone into it, and the presentation of the evidence from their own legends and testimonies - you are not likely to find many of them in other history books. At the very least I hope it will be a starting point for many people to revisit the past
Book Synopsis The Phoenician Origin of Britons, Scots & Anglo-Saxons by : Laurence Austine Waddell
Download or read book The Phoenician Origin of Britons, Scots & Anglo-Saxons written by Laurence Austine Waddell and published by . This book was released on 1924 with total page 500 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Britons written by Linda Colley and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2005-01-01 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Controversial, entertaining and alarmingly topical ... a delight to read."Philip Ziegler, Daily Telegraph
Book Synopsis Cabinet History of England by : Sir James Mackintosh
Download or read book Cabinet History of England written by Sir James Mackintosh and published by . This book was released on 1830 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Culloden written by Trevor Royle and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2016-02-04 with total page 199 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Battle of Culloden has gone down in history as the last major battle fought on British soil: a vicious confrontation between Scottish forces supporting the Stuart claim to the throne and the English Royal Army. But this wasn't just a conflict between the Scots and the English, the battle was also part of a much larger campaign to protect the British Isles from the growing threat of a French invasion. In Trevor Royle's vivid and evocative narrative, we are drawn into the ranks, on both sides, alongside doomed Jacobites fighting fellow Scots dressed in the red coats of the Duke of Cumberland's Royal Army. And we meet the Duke himself, a skilled warrior who would gain notoriety due to the reprisals on Highland clans in the battle's aftermath. Royle also takes us beyond the battle as the men of the Royal Army, galvanized by its success at Culloden, expand dramatically and start to fight campaigns overseas in America and India in order to secure British interests; we see the revolutionary use of fighting techniques first implemented at Culloden; and the creation of professional fighting forces. Culloden changed the course of British history by ending all hope of the Stuarts reclaiming the throne, cementing Hanoverian rule and forming the bedrock for the creation of the British Empire. Royle's lively and provocative history looks afresh at the period and unveils its true significance, not only as the end of a struggle for the throne but the beginning of a new global power.
Book Synopsis A Short History of England, Ireland and Scotland by : Mary Platt Parmele
Download or read book A Short History of England, Ireland and Scotland written by Mary Platt Parmele and published by Cosimo, Inc.. This book was released on 2006-05-01 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: His passionate love for his wife, Sarah Churchill, ran like a golden thread of romance through Marlborough's stormy career. On the eve of battle, and in the first flush of victory, he must first and last write her; and he would more willingly meet 20,000 Frenchmen than his wife's displeasure! Indeed Sarah seems to have waged her own battles very successfully with her tongue, and also to have had her own diplomatic triumphs. -from Chapter XI With a verve and liveliness worthy of a novelist, American writer MARY PLATT PARMELE (1843-1911) put her unique stamp on world history with her series of clever, concise histories, condensed tales of the world's great nations that encompassed the essential facts necessary for appreciating the state of the world as she saw it. With this book, first published in 1895 and updated in 1900, she sketches the extraordinary story of the British Isles. From Boadicea and the Roman invasion to the Irish famine, the Great Exhibition, and the laying of the transatlantic telegraph cable, this is an exciting and inspiring reminder of the history of the peoples who share with Americans a language, an industrious spirit, and a love of freedom and democracy. OF INTEREST TO: readers of European and classical history Parmele's books available from Cosimo Classics include: * The Evolution of an Empire: A Brief Historical Sketch of France * The Evolution of an Empire: A Brief Historical Sketch of the United States * A Short History of France * A Short History of Germany * A Short History of Spain * A Short History of Rome and Italy
Book Synopsis The Connection Between England and Scotland by : Ella S. Armitage
Download or read book The Connection Between England and Scotland written by Ella S. Armitage and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2015-06-13 with total page 175 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Connection Between England and Scotland At the time of the conversion of England (597), the date at which the authentic history of England begins, we find four nations occupying this island - the Picts, Scots, Britons, and English, each speaking their own language. The very names of England and Scotland were then unknown; nor were all the elements from which the two great kingdoms were to be formed as yet present on the soil. But then, as now, two nationalities - the Keltic and the Teutonic - divided the land between them, though in a distribution widely different from that of to-day. The Picts, Scots, and Britons were Kelts; the English were Teutons. The Picts. - The Picts were the descendants of those wild tribes of the North whom the Romans called the Caledonians. They probably belonged to the Gaelic branch of the Keltic family. In the time of Agricola they possessed not only all Scotland north of the Firths of Clyde and Forth, but a great part of the north of Ireland. Their national name was Cruithnigh; but they received the name of Picts from the Romans because they tattooed their bodies. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Book Synopsis Regional Variation in British English - Focus on Scotland by : Sydne Pruonto
Download or read book Regional Variation in British English - Focus on Scotland written by Sydne Pruonto and published by GRIN Verlag. This book was released on 2007-10 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Seminar paper from the year 2004 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Linguistics, grade: 2, University of Würzburg (Anglistik und Amerikanistik), course: Sociolinguistics, 25 entries in the bibliography, language: English, abstract: This seminar paper is about linguistic variations Scottish English has in contrast to Standard English concerning pronunciation, grammar and vocabulary as well as it deals with the history of Scottish English and attitudes which Scottish English perceives from society.
Book Synopsis A View of the British Empire, More Especially Scotland by : John Knox
Download or read book A View of the British Empire, More Especially Scotland written by John Knox and published by . This book was released on 1784 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Scot in British North America by : William Jordan Rattray
Download or read book The Scot in British North America written by William Jordan Rattray and published by . This book was released on 1880 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Irish Identity of the Kingdom of the Scots in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries by : Dauvit Broun
Download or read book The Irish Identity of the Kingdom of the Scots in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries written by Dauvit Broun and published by Boydell & Brewer Ltd. This book was released on 1999 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An examination of the Scottish kingdom's historic links with Ireland, and the beginnings of a Scottish national identity from c. 1290. The close ties between Gaels of Ireland and Scotland are well known, but in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries the elite in the core areas of the kingdom of the Scots apparently turned their backs on Gaelic culture. This book takes a new look at the issue, investigating the extent to which Scottish men of letters of the period identified the Scottish kingdom and its inhabitants with Ireland, and exploring the function of the kingdom's Irish identity. DrBroun argues that a perceived historical link with Ireland was a fundamental feature of the kingdom's identity throughout the period, and discusses the beginnings of a Scottish national identity in the 1290s and early 1300s. His evidence is based on a thorough examination of accounts of Scottish origins, the royal genealogy, and regnal lists, which articulated perceptions of the kingdom's identity; included are new editions of the origin-legend material inBook I of Fordun's Chronica Gentis Scottorum; hitherto unknown witnesses of Scottish king-lists; and texts of the royal genealogy. Dr DAUVIT BROUNis lecturer in Scottish history at the University of Glasgow.
