Download or read book A Description of the Western Islands of Scotland Circa 1695 written by Martin Martin and published by Birlinn Ltd. This book was released on 2018-05-17 with total page 383 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the greatest travellers in Scotland, Martin Martin was also a native Gaelic speaker. This text offers his narrative of his journey around the Western Isles, and a mine of information on custom, tradition and life. Martin Martin's wrote before the Jacobite rebellions changed the way of life of the Highlander irrevocably. The volume includes the earliest account of St Kilda, first published in 1697 and Sir Donald Monro, High Dean of the Isles, account written in 1549 which presents a record of a pastoral visit to islands still coping with the aftermath of the fall of the Lords of the Isles.
Download or read book A Geographical and Statistical Description of Scotland written by James Playfair and published by . This book was released on 1819 with total page 550 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book England Wales Scotland and Ireland Described and Abriged with Ye Historic Relation of Things Worthy Memory from a Farr Larger Voulume Done by John Speed written by John Speed and published by . This book was released on 1676 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Description of the Western Isles of Scotland written by Austin Mardon and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2010-11 with total page 82 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the 16th century description of the Hebrides the Western Isles of Scotland by Donald Monro. It is one of the first travelogues of the area. It is a modern translation of the manuscript.
Download or read book A Description of the Western Islands of Scotland Including the Isle of Man written by John Macculloch and published by . This book was released on 1819 with total page 854 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Britain or a Chorographicall description of England Scotland and Ireland Beautified with mappes Translated by Phil mon Holland Revised amended and enlarged etc written by William Camden and published by . This book was released on 1637 with total page 1056 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Scotland Described written by Robert Heron and published by . This book was released on 1797 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book A Description of all the Kings of Scotland declaring what year of the world they began to reign how long they reigned etc written by Kings (SCOTLAND) and published by . This book was released on 1703 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Tourism and Identity in Scotland 1770 1914 written by Katherine Haldane Grenier and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-07-05 with total page 425 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, legions of English citizens headed north. Why and how did Scotland, once avoided by travelers, become a popular site for English tourists? In Tourism and Identity in Scotland, 1770-1914, Katherine Haldane Grenier uses published and unpublished travel accounts, guidebooks, and the popular press to examine the evolution of the idea of Scotland. Though her primary subject is the cultural significance of Scotland for English tourists, in demonstrating how this region came to occupy a central role in the Victorian imagination, Grenier also sheds light on middle-class popular culture, including anxieties over industrialization, urbanization, and political change; attitudes towards nature; nostalgia for the past; and racial and gender constructions of the "other." Late eighteenth-century visitors to Scotland may have lauded the momentum of modernization in Scotland, but as the pace of economic, social, and political transformations intensified in England during the nineteenth century, English tourists came to imagine their northern neighbor as a place immune to change. Grenier analyzes the rhetoric of tourism that allowed visitors to adopt a false view of Scotland as untouched by the several transformations of the nineteenth century, making journeys there antidotes to the uneasiness of modern life. While this view was pervasive in Victorian society and culture, and deeply marked the modern Scottish national identity, Grenier demonstrates that it was not hegemonic. Rather, the variety of ways that Scotland and the Scots spoke for themselves often challenged tourists' expectations.
Download or read book The Abridgement Or Summarie of the Scots Chronicles with a True Description of the Whole Realms of Scotland Etc written by John Monipennie and published by . This book was released on 1820 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Understanding Scotland Musically written by Simon McKerrell and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-02-15 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Scottish traditional music has been through a successful revival in the mid-twentieth century and has now entered a professionalised and public space. Devolution in the UK and the surge of political debate surrounding the independence referendum in Scotland in 2014 led to a greater scrutiny of regional and national identities within the UK, set within the wider context of cultural globalisation. This volume brings together a range of authors that sets out to explore the increasingly plural and complex notions of Scotland, as performed in and through traditional music. Traditional music has played an increasingly prominent role in the public life of Scotland, mirrored in other Anglo-American traditions. This collection principally explores this movement from historically text-bound musical authenticity towards more transient sonic identities that are blurring established musical genres and the meaning of what constitutes ‘traditional’ music today. The volume therefore provides a cohesive set of perspectives on how traditional music performs Scottishness at this crucial moment in the public life of an increasingly (dis)United Kingdom.
Download or read book The Scottish Chronicle Or A Complete History and Description of Scotland written by Raphael Holinshed and published by . This book was released on 1805 with total page 980 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Photography of Victorian Scotland written by Roddy Simpson and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2012-09-03 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first book to provide a full and coherent introduction to the photography of Victorian Scotland. The material has been structured and the topics organised, with appropriate illustrations, as both a readable narrative and a foundation text for
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 1875 with total page 856 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Scottish Book written by R. Daniel Mauldin and published by Birkhäuser. This book was released on 2015-11-26 with total page 333 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The second edition of this book updates and expands upon a historically important collection of mathematical problems first published in the United States by Birkhäuser in 1981. These problems serve as a record of the informal discussions held by a group of mathematicians at the Scottish Café in Lwów, Poland, between the two world wars. Many of them were leaders in the development of such areas as functional and real analysis, group theory, measure and set theory, probability, and topology. Finding solutions to the problems they proposed has been ongoing since World War II, with prizes offered in many cases to those who are successful. In the 35 years since the first edition published, several more problems have been fully or partially solved, but even today many still remain unsolved and several prizes remain unclaimed. In view of this, the editor has gathered new and updated commentaries on the original 193 problems. Some problems are solved for the first time in this edition. Included again in full are transcripts of lectures given by Stanislaw Ulam, Mark Kac, Antoni Zygmund, Paul Erdös, and Andrzej Granas that provide amazing insights into the mathematical environment of Lwów before World War II and the development of The Scottish Book. Also new in this edition are a brief history of the University of Wrocław’s New Scottish Book, created to revive the tradition of the original, and some selected problems from it. The Scottish Book offers a unique opportunity to communicate with the people and ideas of a time and place that had an enormous influence on the development of mathematics and try their hand on the unsolved problems. Anyone in the general mathematical community with an interest in the history of modern mathematics will find this to be an insightful and fascinating read.
Download or read book A Geographical and Statistical Description of Scotland written by James Playfair and published by . This book was released on 1819 with total page 462 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
