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Author : Nigel Tranter
Publisher : Mercat Press Books
ISBN 13 : 9780901824462
Total Pages : 186 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (244 download)
Download or read book The Fortified House in Scotland written by Nigel Tranter and published by Mercat Press Books. This book was released on 1986-01-01 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Stuart Reid
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1782004386
Total Pages : 174 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (82 download)
Download or read book Castles and Tower Houses of the Scottish Clans 1450–1650 written by Stuart Reid and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2012-09-20 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With the exception of the key royal sites, such as Stirling and Edinburgh, few Scottish castles were located at strategic points, or were intended to house garrisons required to defend or subjugate towns. Instead they were primarily fortified dwelling houses, erected in an environment of weak Royal authority and endemic feuding between rival clans and groups, in both Highland and Lowland areas. Although some enceinte castles were developed during the 16th and 17th centuries, most defensive construction focused on the tower house, a distinctive vernacular style of Scottish fortification. This book examines the design, development, and purpose of these quintessentially Scottish buildings, and also covers larger sites such as Urquhart and Blackness.
Author : Nigel G. Tranter
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 186 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (318 download)
Download or read book The Fortified House in Scotland: Aberdeenshire, Angus and Kincardineshire written by Nigel G. Tranter and published by . This book was released on 1966 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Martin Coventry
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781899874248
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (742 download)
Download or read book Castles of Scotland written by Martin Coventry and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A must for all those who want to visit Scotland's many castles. The book covers all of the coutry's famous strongholds, as well as many lesser-known places, with location, access, visitor facilities, and contact details. There is a map, many photos, a glossary of architectural terms, and a family-name index, allowing the reader to identify any castle associated with their family.
Author : Martin Coventry
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781899874569
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (745 download)
Download or read book The Castles of Scotland written by Martin Coventry and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The definitive and most comprehensive collection on castles, towers, and fortified houses of Scotland, with historical accounts, visitor information, and maps.
Author : Andor Harvey Gomme
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780300126457
Total Pages : 358 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (264 download)
Download or read book Design and Plan in the Country House written by Andor Harvey Gomme and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2008-01-01 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The way a man thinks about his day-to-day living and the needs of his household reveals a great deal about his ambitions, his idea of himself, and his role in the community. And his house or castle offers many clues to his habits as well as those of the members of his household. This intriguing book explores the evolution of country house plans throughout Britain and Ireland, from medieval times to the eighteenth century. With photographs and detailed architectural plans of each house under discussion, the book presents a whole range of new insights into how these homes were designed and what their varied designs tell us about the lives of their residents. Starting with fortified medieval tower houses, the book traces patterns that developed and sometimes repeated in country house design over the centuries. It discusses who slept in the bedchambers, where food was prepared, how rooms were arranged for official and private activities, what towers signified, and more. Groundbreaking in its depth, the volume offers a rare tour of country houses for scholar and general reader alike.
Author : J.N.G. Ritchie
Publisher : Shire Publications
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 62 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Brochs of Scotland written by J.N.G. Ritchie and published by Shire Publications. This book was released on 1998 with total page 62 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume examines some of the best ancient monuments in Britain - the iron age brochs of north & west Scotland. It sets the building of these fortifications into context & looks at some of the theories that have been proposed for their origins.
Author : Janet Brennan-Inglis
Publisher : The History Press
ISBN 13 : 0750958103
Total Pages : 349 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (59 download)
Download or read book Scotland's Castles written by Janet Brennan-Inglis and published by The History Press. This book was released on 2014-07-07 with total page 349 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Scotland's Castles is a beautifully illustrated celebration and account of the renaissance of Scottish castles that has taken place since 1950. Over 100 ruined and derelict buildings – from tiny towers to rambling baronial mansions – have been restored as homes, hotels and holiday lets. These restorations have mainly been carried out by new owners without any connections to the land or the family history of the buildings, which they bought as ruins. Their struggles and triumphs, including interviews and first-person accounts, form the core of the book, set in the context of the enormous social, political and economic changes of the late twentieth century.
Author : Thomas Martin Devine
Publisher : Penguin UK
ISBN 13 : 0718193202
Total Pages : 887 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (181 download)
Download or read book The Scottish Nation written by Thomas Martin Devine and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2012 with total page 887 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'The Scottish Nation, 1700-2007' examines the social, political, religious and economic factors that have shaped modern Scotland. Devine places Scotland firmly within an international context and provides a key focus for the ongoing debate regarding Scotland's future.
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Author : Mary (Queen of Scots)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 214 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (17 download)
Download or read book Life of Mary, Queen of Scots. [By James Grant.] written by Mary (Queen of Scots) and published by . This book was released on 1828 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : M. L. Parry
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000394042
Total Pages : 317 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (3 download)
Download or read book The Making of the Scottish Countryside written by M. L. Parry and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-10-12 with total page 317 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in 1980, this book examines the evolution of the Scottish landscape from pre-historic times to the mid-nineteenth century. It considers the way in which the structural base of agriculture and the changing farming ‘system’ came to alter the Scottish rural landscape. This book, with its focus on the underlying landscape processes, gives a developmental view of landscape change. It therefore considers the crucial question of the rate and pace of landscape change and argues that the Scottish landscape was not the product of a few brief phases of quite rapid development but rather the result of a continual and gradual process of change. It also looks at the regional variation of landscape change and establishes the importance of regional linkages in the diffusion of ideas especially in new technology.
Author : Gordon W. Mason
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781899874590
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (745 download)
Download or read book The Castles of Glasgow and the Clyde written by Gordon W. Mason and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An in-depth and detailed coverage of all the castles of Glasgow and the Clyde, Lanarkshire, Strathkelvin, Dunbartonshire, and Renfrew. Care has been taken to cover every castle in the area and provide detailed information on the history of ownership and the site. The most comprehensive work ever on the castles of this historically important area of Scotland.
Author : Robert Harbison
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 9780262581226
Total Pages : 198 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (812 download)
Download or read book The Built, the Unbuilt, and the Unbuildable written by Robert Harbison and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 1993 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Robert Harbison finds meaning in works of architecture that are unnecessary, having outlived their physical functions or never having been intended to have any.
Author : John Gifford
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780300096729
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (967 download)
Download or read book Edinburgh written by John Gifford and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Edinburgh is renowned for its castle, its Georgian New Town, and its many other distinctive buildings. This guide, complete with maps, plans and illustrations, introduces the reader to many of Edinburgh's architectural treasures.
Author : Charles MacLean
Publisher : Clarkson Potter Publishers
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 234 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Scottish Country written by Charles MacLean and published by Clarkson Potter Publishers. This book was released on 1992 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first book on Scotland to capture not only the beauty of its spectacular landscape and architecture but also to tell about the history, traditions, and culture from the perspective of a witty, knowledgeable insider. Through lush gardens, sweeping landscapes, and 15 of Scotland's less well known houses, Scottish Country reveals an identifiably Scottish style. Illustrations.
Author : Hans Holzer
Publisher : Open Road Media
ISBN 13 : 1453279725
Total Pages : 1078 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (532 download)
Download or read book This House Is Haunted written by Hans Holzer and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2012-09-25 with total page 1078 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DIVJoin paranormal expert and storyteller extraordinaire Hans Holzer as he investigates the most famous, and infamous, real-life haunted houses/divDIV Perhaps no other paranormal situation captures our imagination more than a haunted house. The idea of sharing a home with the dead is unsettling for the current inhabitants, but according to professor Hans Holzer, it can be equally as upsetting to the ghost. In The House Is Haunted, Holzer explores more than eighty haunted houses—all over the United States and abroad—dissects their history, and speculates on the reasons the otherworldly inhabitants continue to stay in their earthly abodes. /div
Author : Victoria Henshaw
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1472505220
Total Pages : 313 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (725 download)
Download or read book Scotland and the British Army, 1700-1750 written by Victoria Henshaw and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2014-06-05 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The wholesale assimilation of Scots into the British Army is largely associated with the recruitment of Highlanders during and after the Seven Years War. This important new study demonstrates that the assimilation of Lowland and Highland Scots into the British Army was a salient feature of its history in the first half of the 18th century and was already well advanced by the outbreak of the Seven Years War. Scotland and the British Army, 1700-1750 analyses the wider policing functions of the British Army, the role of Scotland's militia and the development of Scotland's military roads and institutions to provide a fuller understanding of the purpose and complexity of Scotland's military organisation and presence in Scotland in the turbulent decades between the Glorious Revolution and the defeat of Bonnie Prince Charlie, which has been too often simplified as an army of occupation for the suppression of Jacobitism. Instead, Victoria Henshaw reveals the complexities and difficulties experienced by Scottish soldiers of all ranks in the British Army as nationality, loyalty and prejudice clouded Scottish desires to use military service to defend the Glorious Revolution and the Union of 1707.
