Download or read book Sketches of Sutherland Characters written by Alexander Mackay (Treasurer of the Sutherland Association, Edinburgh.) and published by . This book was released on 1889 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Sketches of the Character Manners and Present State of the Highlanders of Scotland written by David Stewart and published by . This book was released on 1822 with total page 1206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Set Adrift Upon the World written by James Hunter and published by Birlinn Ltd. This book was released on 2015-10-15 with total page 426 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of Saltire Scottish History Book of the Year They would be better dead, they said, than set adrift upon the world. But set adrift they were - thousands of them, their communities destroyed, their homes demolished and burned. Such were the Sutherland Clearances, an extraordinary episode, involving the deliberate depopulation of much of a Scottish county. What was done in the course of that episode was planned and carried out by a small group of men and one woman. Most of those involved wrote a great deal about their actions, intentions and feelings, and much of it has been preserved. There are no equivalent collections of material from those whose communities ceased to exist. Their feelings and fears are harder to access, but they are by no means irrecoverable. In this book James Hunter tells the story of the Sutherland Clearances. His researches took him to archives in Scotland, England and Canada, to the now deserted straths of Sutherland, to the frozen shores of Hudson Bay. The result is a gripping, moving, definitive account of a people's struggle for survival in the face of tragedy and disaster which includes experiences which have not featured in any previous such account.
Download or read book Historical Perspectives on Social Identities written by Alyson Brown and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2009-01-14 with total page 179 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of work on the theme of identities was the result of a conference held in the spring of 2005 at Edge Hill under the auspices of The Centre for Liverpool and Merseyside Studies. Whilst a significant proportion of the research focused on Liverpool and the North West, the theme of identities was sufficiently broad to entice scholars from diverse and varied fields. This collection, therefore, reflects the range of work presented and discussed at the conference and the multi-layered and multi-facetted nature of identity. Contributors to this edited collection examined the concept of identity in Britain through a range of historical perspectives, concerning themselves primarily with the later modern period. They reflect the extent to which nineteenth and twentieth century British social, cultural and political change has given rise to pluralist, fragmented and fractured identities and highlight the extent to which class, gender, religious and institutional frameworks have shifted continually. This publication will therefore be of interest to those working in diverse fields but who share an interest in the importance of identity as a decisive cultural, social, economic and political determinant. Questions of identity have centred a good deal of debate in the social sciences, especially since the reception of Foucault's work in the English-speaking world in the last couple of decades. This has often taken a theoretical form. Attempts to link theory with analytical practice have been strongest in the field that might be characterised as the 'politics of identity'. At any rate this has provided an important instance of theoretical and practical conflict. Herethe focus of the debate has been around questions of gender, nation, language, economy, security and race. It has tried toto clarify crucial divisions in the analysis of identity as between explanatory and constitutive models, and between positivist and post-positivist procedures. For the most part these intense and extensive concerns have passed by largely unnoticed among historians practising in Britain in the well-found but conventional idioms of political and social history. What this conference volume seeks to do is to help redress thedeficit, to domesticate some of the theoretical and polemical exchanges around 'identity' into a world of practical,yet conceptually aware historical work. This is a difficult but surely worthwhile task: to broach various imaginaries of identity, issues of identitarian politics, and questions of identity formation on a series of relatively familiar historical contexts. Of course, no selection of subjects for practical research in this way can be exhaustive. The group of essays offered here is sufficiently wide, and occasionally gratifyingly unexpected, at least to begin the job, to stimulate others and, most importantly, to interject theoretical concern into historial fields sometimes lacking it. Ten essays are included, together with the editor's introduction. The pieces are bound together by a common strategy not a shared empirical territory. They range from studies of gendered identity formation , to regional identities formed around seaside resorts, to empirical questions of class and capitalism and their identitarian politics, to historical analysis of mourning, and on to language, nationality, deafness, motherhood and their inflection in identity in past time. This well-edited combination of shared conceptual purpose and variety of empirical form seems to me to work well. The book will be widely used in a variety of historical fields, not least in those which have been the most resistant to recenttheoretical innovations in the social sciences. Keith Nield Editor SOCIAL HISTORY 'This is a fascinating and wide-ranging collection of essays linked by the over-riding theme of identity. While primarily historical in their focus, the essays will be of interest to more than just historians. They raise a variety of interesting conceptual and theoretical issues, from, for instance, the significance of the staymaker in the formation of eighteenth-century female identity, to the relationship between regional identity and late-nineteenth and early twentieth century Lancashire seaside resorts.' Sam Davies, Professor of History, School of Social Science, Liverpool John Moores University
Download or read book Sketches of the Character Institutions and Customs of the Highlanders of Scotland written by David Stewart and published by Inverness : A. & W.Mackenzie. This book was released on 1885 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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 596 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Fasti Ecclesi Scotican written by Hew Scott and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 820 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Sketches of the Character Manners and Present State of the Highlanders of Scotland with Details of the Military Service of the Highland Regiments By Colonel David Stewart Vol 1 2 written by and published by . This book was released on 1822 with total page 562 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Bookseller and the Stationery Trades Journal written by and published by . This book was released on 1889 with total page 780 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Publisher and Bookseller written by and published by . This book was released on 1889 with total page 1758 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vols. for 1871-76, 1913-14 include an extra number, The Christmas bookseller, separately paged and not included in the consecutive numbering of the regular series.
Download or read book The Leviathan of Wealth written by Eric Richards and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-02-01 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Published in the year 2006, The Leviathan of Wealth is a valuable contribution to the field of Major Works.
Download or read book The Celtic Monthly written by and published by . This book was released on 1898 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Celtic Monthly written by and published by . This book was released on 1905 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book An Old Highland Fencible Corps written by Ian Hamilton Mackay Scobie and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 560 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Highland Clearances written by Eric Richards and published by Birlinn. This book was released on 2012-11-05 with total page 463 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Highland Clearances stands out as one of the most emotive chapters in the history of Scotland. This book traces the origins of the Clearances from the eighteenth century to their culmination in the crofting legislation of the 1880s. In considering both the terrible suffering of the Highland people as well as the stark choices that faced landowners during a period of rapid economic change, it shows how the Clearances were one of many 'attempted' solutions to the problem of how to maintain a population on marginal and infertile land, and were, in fact, part of a wider European movement of rural depopulation. In drawing attention away from the mythology to the hard facts of what actually happened, The Highland Clearances offers a balanced analysis of events which created a terrible scar on the Highland and Gaelic imagination.
Download or read book Orkney and Shetland Miscellany written by and published by . This book was released on 1911 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Catalogue of Printed Books written by and published by . This book was released on 1891 with total page 466 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
