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Author : William Forbes Skene
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 476 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Highlanders of Scotland written by William Forbes Skene and published by . This book was released on 1902 with total page 476 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Sarah Fraser
Publisher : HarperCollins UK
ISBN 13 : 0007302649
Total Pages : 340 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (73 download)
Download or read book The Last Highlander: Scotland’s Most Notorious Clan Chief, Rebel & Double Agent written by Sarah Fraser and published by HarperCollins UK. This book was released on 2012-05-10 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER PERFECT FOR FANS OF OUTLANDER The true story of one of Scotland’s most notorious and romantic heroes.
Author : William Forbes Skene
Publisher : London : J. Murray
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.B/5 (1 download)
Download or read book The Highlanders of Scotland, Their Origin, History, and Antiquities written by William Forbes Skene and published by London : J. Murray. This book was released on 1837 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : William Forbes Skene
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 616 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Highlanders of Scotland written by William Forbes Skene and published by . This book was released on 1837 with total page 616 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Anthony W. Parker
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
ISBN 13 : 0820327182
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (23 download)
Download or read book Scottish Highlanders in Colonial Georgia: The Recruitment, Emigration, and Settlement at Darien, 1735-1748 written by Anthony W. Parker and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 2010-07-01 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Between 1735 and 1748 hundreds of young men and their families emigrated from the Scottish Highlands to the Georgia coast to settle and protect the new British colony. These men were recruited by the trustees of the colony and military governor James Oglethorpe, who wanted settlers who were accustomed to hardship, militant in nature, and willing to become frontier farmer-soldiers. In this respect, the Highlanders fit the bill perfectly through training and tradition. Recruiting and settling the Scottish Highlanders as the first line of defense on the southern frontier in Georgia was an important decision on the part of the trustees and crucial for the survival of the colony, but this portion of Georgia's history has been sadly neglected until now. By focusing on the Scots themselves, Anthony W. Parker explains what factors motivated the Highlanders to leave their native glens of Scotland for the pine barrens of Georgia and attempts to account for the reasons their cultural distinctiveness and "old world" experience aptly prepared them to play a vital role in the survival of Georgia in this early and precarious moment in its history.
Author : William Forbes Skene
Publisher : Stirling, E. MacKay
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 466 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (318 download)
Download or read book The Highlanders of Scotland written by William Forbes Skene and published by Stirling, E. MacKay. This book was released on 1902 with total page 466 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : David Alston
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781474427319
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (273 download)
Download or read book Slaves and Highlanders written by David Alston and published by . This book was released on 2021 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores the prominent role of Highland Scots in the slavery industry of the cotton, sugar and coffee plantations of the 18th and 19th centuries. Longlisted for the 2021 Highland Book Prize.
Author : Michael Newton
Publisher : Birlinn
ISBN 13 : 0857907670
Total Pages : 409 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (579 download)
Download or read book Warriors of the Word written by Michael Newton and published by Birlinn. This book was released on 2019-11-05 with total page 409 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An enlightening illustrated overview of Gaelic culture and history in Scotland. Words have always held great power in the Gaelic traditions of the Scottish Highlands: Bardic poems bought immortality for their subjects; satires threatened to ruin reputations and cause physical injury; clan sagas recounted family origins and struggles for power; incantations invoked blessings and curses. Even in the present, Gaels strive to counteract centuries of misrepresentation of the Highlands as a backwater of barbarism without a valid story of its own to tell. Warriors of the Word offers a broad overview of Scottish Highland culture and history, bringing together rare and previously untranslated primary texts from scattered and obscure sources. Poetry, songs, tales, and proverbs, supplemented by the accounts of insiders and travelers, illuminate traditional ways of life, exploring such topics as folklore, music, dance, literature, social organization, supernatural beliefs, human ecology, ethnic identity, and the role of language. This range of materials allows Scottish Gaeldom to be described on its own terms and to demonstrate its vitality and wealth of renewable cultural resources—making this an essential compendium for scholars, students, and all enthusiasts of Scottish culture.
Author : Colin G. Calloway
Publisher : OUP USA
ISBN 13 : 0195340124
Total Pages : 391 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (953 download)
Download or read book White People, Indians, and Highlanders written by Colin G. Calloway and published by OUP USA. This book was released on 2008-07-03 with total page 391 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comparative approach to the American Indians and Scottish Highlanders, this book examines the experiences of clans and tribal societies, which underwent parallel experiences on the peripheries of Britain's empire in Britain, the United States, and Canada.
Author : Fitzroy Maclean
Publisher : Everyman's Library
ISBN 13 : 9781841592695
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (926 download)
Download or read book Highlanders written by Fitzroy Maclean and published by Everyman's Library. This book was released on 2007 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Highlands of Scotland, and more specifically the clans that inhabit them, have a romantic resonance and mystery. Fitzroy Maclean recounts their extraordinary history, from their Celtic origins to Robert the Bruce, the wars of independence and Bannockburn, from Flodden, Mary Queen of Scots to the Jacobite Risings of the eighteenth century, the nineteenth-century Clearances and the modern day. Highlanders sheds light on the motivation and character of the clans, bringing vividly to life their highly dramatic stories. Never before has there been such a thorough and well-balanced view of Highland history.
Author : Diana Gabaldon
Publisher : Dell
ISBN 13 : 0440335167
Total Pages : 560 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (43 download)
Download or read book Outlander written by Diana Gabaldon and published by Dell. This book was released on 2004-10-26 with total page 560 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • NOW A STARZ ORIGINAL SERIES Unrivaled storytelling. Unforgettable characters. Rich historical detail. These are the hallmarks of Diana Gabaldon’s work. Her New York Times bestselling Outlander novels have earned the praise of critics and captured the hearts of millions of fans. Here is the story that started it all, introducing two remarkable characters, Claire Beauchamp Randall and Jamie Fraser, in a spellbinding novel of passion and history that combines exhilarating adventure with a love story for the ages. One of the top ten best-loved novels in America, as seen on PBS’s The Great American Read! Scottish Highlands, 1945. Claire Randall, a former British combat nurse, is just back from the war and reunited with her husband on a second honeymoon when she walks through a standing stone in one of the ancient circles that dot the British Isles. Suddenly she is a Sassenach—an “outlander”—in a Scotland torn by war and raiding clans in the year of Our Lord . . . 1743. Claire is catapulted into the intrigues of a world that threatens her life, and may shatter her heart. Marooned amid danger, passion, and violence, Claire learns her only chance of safety lies in Jamie Fraser, a gallant young Scots warrior. What begins in compulsion becomes urgent need, and Claire finds herself torn between two very different men, in two irreconcilable lives. This eBook includes the full text of the novel plus the following additional content: • An excerpt from Diana Gabaldon’s Dragonfly in Amber, the second novel in the Outlander series • An interview with Diana Gabaldon • An Outlander reader’s guide Praise for Outlander “Marvelous and fantastic adventures, romance, sex . . . perfect escape reading.”—San Francisco Chronicle “History comes deliciously alive on the page.”—New York Daily News
Author : Neill Gilhooley
Publisher : Pen and Sword Military
ISBN 13 : 1526735288
Total Pages : 508 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (267 download)
Download or read book A History of the 9th (Highlanders) Royal Scots written by Neill Gilhooley and published by Pen and Sword Military. This book was released on 2020-02-19 with total page 508 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This regimental history chronicles the Dandy Ninth Battalion Royal Scots from its first forays in the Boer War through the brutal fighting of WWI. After suffering the disastrous Black Week of the Second Boer War, the British Army formed a new Highland battalion, the kilted 9th Royal Scots, which became affectionately known as the Dandy Ninth. It sent volunteers to South Africa and established itself as Edinburgh’s kilted battalion, part of the Territorial Force of part-time soldiers. Mobilized in 1914 as part of the Lothian Brigade, the Dandy Ninth defended Edinburgh from the threat of invasion, and constructed part of the landward defenses around Liberton Tower. They were part-time soldiers and new recruits, drawn from the breadth of society, from lawyers to rugby players and artists, such as the Scottish Colorist F.C.B. Cadell, and William Geissler of the Edinburgh School. In the Great War they mobilized to France and Flanders and served in many of the major actions: in Ypres and on the Somme; at Arras and Cambrai in 1917; and during the 1918 German Spring Offensive at St Quentin. In the Advance to Victory, they were with the 15th (Scottish) Division.
Author : Duane Meyer
Publisher : UNC Press Books
ISBN 13 : 1469620626
Total Pages : 231 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (696 download)
Download or read book The Highland Scots of North Carolina, 1732-1776 written by Duane Meyer and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2014-03-30 with total page 231 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Meyer addresses himself principally to two questions. Why did many thousands of Scottish Highlanders emigrate to America in the eighteenth century, and why did the majority of them rally to the defense of the Crown. . . . Offers the most complete and intelligent analysis of them that has so far appeared.--William and Mary Quarterly Using a variety of original sources -- official papers, travel documents, diaries, and newspapers -- Duane Meyer presents an impressively complete reconstruction of the settlement of the Highlanders in North Carolina. He examines their motives for migration, their life in America, and their curious political allegiance to George III.
Author : Alistair Moffat
Publisher : National Geographic Books
ISBN 13 : 0500290849
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (2 download)
Download or read book The Highland Clans written by Alistair Moffat and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2013-05-07 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “A brisk and accessible guide to a thousand years of reiving and rivalry in the Highlands.” —The Scotsman The story of the Highland clans of Scotland is famous, the names celebrated, and the deeds heroic. Having clung to ancient traditions of family, loyalty, and valor for centuries, the clans met the beginning of their end at the fateful Battle of Culloden in 1746. Alistair Moffat traces the history of the clans from their Celtic origins to the coming of the Romans; from Somerled the Viking to Robert the Bruce; from the great battles of Bannockburn and Flodden to Bonnie Prince Charlie and the Jacobite Risings; and from the Clearances to the present day. Moffat is an adept guide to the world of the clans, a world dominated by lineage, land, and community. These are stories of great leaders and famous battles, and of an extraordinary people, shaped by the unique traditions and landscape of the Scottish Highlands. It’s a story too about the pain of leaving, with the great emigrations to the United States, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand that began after Culloden. Complete with a clan map and an alphabetical list of the clans of the Scottish Highlands, this is a must for anyone interested in the history of Scotland.
Author : William Forbes Skene
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.B/5 (1 download)
Download or read book The Highlanders of Scotland, Their Origin, History, and Antiquities written by William Forbes Skene and published by . This book was released on 1837 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : William Forbes Skene
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9781528447584
Total Pages : 468 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (475 download)
Download or read book The Highlanders of Scotland (Classic Reprint) written by William Forbes Skene and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-10-12 with total page 468 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Highlanders of Scotland The attention of the Author was directed to this subject by an advertisement of the Highland Society of London, making Offer Ofa premium for the best History of the Highland Clans; his Essay proved the successful one, and the-highland Society deemed his Work worthy of the attention of the public, and requested that it might be published. Since that period the Author has been enabled to make many important additions to the original Essay, and has considerably altered its plan and arrangement. In collecting the materials of the present Work, the Author has to acknowledge the very liberal assistance which he has received from many Of his literary friends in Scotland; and he feels that it would be improper to allow this opportunity to escape without acknowledging the very great Obligations which he has been laid under by Donald Gregory, Esq, Secretary to the Society of Antiquaries Of Scotland, for the valuable and important communications which he has at all times so liberally made to the Author; and also by Mr. T. G. Repp, for the able assistance which he has rendered to the Author in the earlier part of his enquiry. 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.
Author : David Stewart (Major-General.)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 662 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)
Download or read book Sketches of the Character, Manners, and Present State of the Highlanders of Scotland written by David Stewart (Major-General.) and published by . This book was released on 1825 with total page 662 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
