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Book Letters from a Gentleman in the North of Scotland to His Friend in London

Download or read book Letters from a Gentleman in the North of Scotland to His Friend in London written by Edward Burt and published by . This book was released on 1822 with total page 430 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Folk lore Record

Download or read book The Folk lore Record written by and published by . This book was released on 1882 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland

Download or read book Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland written by Society of Antiquaries of Scotland and published by . This book was released on 1901 with total page 742 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes List of members.

Book Scottish Highlanders in Colonial Georgia

Download or read book Scottish Highlanders in Colonial Georgia written by Anthony W. Parker and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 1997 with total page 199 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. 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.

Book Stepping Westward

Download or read book Stepping Westward written by Nigel Leask and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2020-02-27 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stepping Westward is the first book dedicated to the literature of the Scottish Highland tour of 1720-1830, a major cultural phenomenon that attracted writers and artists like Pennant, Johnson and Boswell, William and Dorothy Wordsworth, Coleridge, Scott, Hogg, Keats, Daniell, and Turner, as well as numerous less celebrated travellers and tourists. Addressing more than a century's worth of literary and visual representations of the Highlands, the book casts new light on how the tour developed a modern literature of place, acting as a catalyst for thinking about improvement, landscape, and the shaping of British, Scottish, and Gaelic identities. It pays attention to the relationship between travellers and the native Gaels, whose world was plunged into crisis by rapid and forced social change. At the book's core lie the best-selling tours of Pennant and Dr Johnson, associated with attempts to 'improve' the intractable Gaidhealtachd in the wake of Culloden. Alongside the Ossian craze and Gilpin's picturesque, their books stimulated a wave of 'home tours' from the 1770s through the romantic period, including writing by women like Sarah Murray and Dorothy Wordsworth. The incidence of published Highland Tours (many lavishly illustrated), peaked around 1800, but as the genre reached exhaustion, the 'romantic Highlands' were reinvented in Scott's poems and novels, coinciding with steam boats and mass tourism, but also rack-renting, sheep clearance, and emigration.

Book Letters from a Gentleman in the North of Scotland to His Friend in London  Containing the Description of a Capital Town an that Northern Country  with an Account of Some Uncommon Customs of the Inhabitants  Likewise An Account of the Highlands     to which is Added  a Letter Relating to the Military Ways Among the Mountains  Begun in the Year 1726   The Fifth Edition with a Large Appendix     and the History of Donald the Hammerer  etc

Download or read book Letters from a Gentleman in the North of Scotland to His Friend in London Containing the Description of a Capital Town an that Northern Country with an Account of Some Uncommon Customs of the Inhabitants Likewise An Account of the Highlands to which is Added a Letter Relating to the Military Ways Among the Mountains Begun in the Year 1726 The Fifth Edition with a Large Appendix and the History of Donald the Hammerer etc written by Edward Burt and published by . This book was released on 1818 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Gaelic Cape Breton Step Dancing

Download or read book Gaelic Cape Breton Step Dancing written by John G. Gibson and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 2017-07-04 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The step-dancing of the Scotch Gaels in Nova Scotia is the last living example of a form of dance that waned following the great emigrations to Canada that ended in 1845. The Scotch Gael has been reported as loving dance, but step-dancing in Scotland had all but disappeared by 1945. One must look to Gaelic Nova Scotia, Cape Breton, and Antigonish County, to find this tradition. Gaelic Cape Breton Step-Dancing, the first study of its kind, gives this art form and the people and culture associated with it the prominence they have long deserved. Gaelic Scotland’s cultural record is by and large pre-literate, and references to dance have had to be sought in Gaelic songs, many of which were transcribed on paper by those who knew their culture might be lost with the decline of their language. The improved Scottish culture depended proudly on the teaching of dancing and the literate learning and transmission of music in accompaniment. Relying on fieldwork in Nova Scotia, and on mentions of dance in Gaelic song and verse in Scotland and Nova Scotia, John Gibson traces the historical roots of step-dancing, particularly the older forms of dancing originating in the Gaelic–speaking Scottish Highlands. He also places the current tradition as a development and part of the much larger British and European percussive dance tradition. With insight collected through written sources, tales, songs, manuscripts, book references, interviews, and conversations, Gaelic Cape Breton Step-Dancing brings an important aspect of Gaelic history to the forefront of cultural debate.

Book The Bibliographer s Manual of English Literature  Containing an Account of Rare  Curious  and Useful Books  Published in Or Relating to Great Britain and Ireland  from the Invention of Printing     and the Prices at which They Have Been Sold in the Present Century

Download or read book The Bibliographer s Manual of English Literature Containing an Account of Rare Curious and Useful Books Published in Or Relating to Great Britain and Ireland from the Invention of Printing and the Prices at which They Have Been Sold in the Present Century written by William Thomas Lowndes and published by . This book was released on 1864 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Critical Review  Or  Annals of Literature

Download or read book The Critical Review Or Annals of Literature written by and published by . This book was released on 1815 with total page 764 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Dictionary o Anonymous and Pseudonymous English Literature

Download or read book Dictionary o Anonymous and Pseudonymous English Literature written by Samuel Halkett and published by Ardent Media. This book was released on 1971 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book General Catalogue of Books and MSS

Download or read book General Catalogue of Books and MSS written by Ellis & Elvey and published by . This book was released on 1899 with total page 474 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Catalogue of Rare Books

Download or read book Catalogue of Rare Books written by Ellis (Firm) and published by . This book was released on 1728 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Critical Review  Or  Annals of Literature

Download or read book The Critical Review Or Annals of Literature written by Tobias Smollett and published by . This book was released on 1815 with total page 656 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: