Author: George RosiePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Authors, Scottish
Languages : en
Pages : 252
Book Description
Hugh Miller, Outrage and Order
Author: George RosiePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Authors, Scottish
Languages : en
Pages : 252
Book Description
Hugh Miller, Outrage and Order
Author: George RosiePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Authors, Scottish
Languages : en
Pages : 248
Book Description
Hugh Miller
Author: Michael A. TaylorPublisher: National Museums of Scotland
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 196
Book Description
After the 200-year anniversary of his birth in 2002, this biography brings this genius who called geology the most poetical of all the sciences to a wider audience.
Hugh Miller's Memoir
Author: Hugh MillerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 280
Book Description
The centrepiece of this book is the autobiographical memoir written by the celebrated Scottish geologist, writer and newspaper editor Hugh Miller from 1829 to 1830. It is, by any standards, a remarkable document from a remarkable man. Vivid and, for its time, unusually informative, it offers a rare insight into the life and thinking of a figure whose violent progress through school in Cromarty and stormy apprenticeship as a stonemason inspired him to seek refuge in the world of letters.
Author: Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN: 0871693380
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 294
Book Description
Scottish Christianity in the Modern World
Author: Stewart J. BrownPublisher: A&C Black
ISBN: 9780567087652
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 348
Book Description
A new and wide-ranging study of Christianity in Scotland, from the eighteenth century to the present.The contributors include D. W. D. Shaw, Ian Campbell, Kenneth Fielding, William Ferguson, Barbara MacHaffie, Peter Matheson, John McCaffrey, Owen Chadwick, David Thompson, Keith Robbins, Andrew Ross, Stewart J. Brown and George Newlands.Topics encompass varieties of unbelief, challenges to the Westminster confession, John Baillie, Queen Victoria and the Church of Scotland, the Scottish ecumenical movement, the disestablishment movement, and Presbyterian-Catholic relations.
A Floating Commonwealth
Author: Christopher HarviePublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0198227833
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 343
Book Description
This is a new portrait of society and identity in high industrial Britain, focusing on the sea as connector, not barrier. It argues that the port cities and their hinterlands formed a 'floating commonwealth' whose interaction with one another and with nationalist and imperial politics created an intense political and cultural synergy.
Rocks of nation
Author: Shelley TrowerPublisher: Manchester University Press
ISBN: 178499619X
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 280
Book Description
Considers how national fantasy has been constructed through a wide range of narratives that have described rocks and landscape not merely as inert substances but moving living beings.
A New Race of Men
Author: Michael FryPublisher: Birlinn
ISBN: 0857906593
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 472
Book Description
War opened and closed Scotland's greatest century: a pitiless part in the defeat of Naploeon in 1815, a huge blood-sacrifice for the sake of victory from 1914. In between came the greatest contributions to the progress and happiness of the rest of mankind that the Scots have ever made - in everything from the combine harvester to the mackintosh to anaesthesia. It was a supremely successful achieving society yet one not without deep flaws, in its urban poverty, its destruction of the environment, its religious intolerance, its moral hypocrisy, its crushing of Highland culture. Michael Fry shows, with an emphasis always on the human story, how a succession of deep crises undermined the usually tranquil and prosperous surface of life in Victorian Scotland to leave a legacy of paradox that the modern nation has even today yet to overcome.
The Highlands Controversy
Author: David R. OldroydPublisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 9780226626345
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 460
Book Description
The Highlands Controversy is a rich and perceptive account of the third and last major dispute in nineteenth-century geology stemming from the work of Sir Roderick Murchison. The earlier Devonian and Cambrian-Silurian controversies centered on whether the strata of Devon and Wales should be classified by lithological or paleontological criteria, but the Highlands dispute arose from the difficulties the Scottish Highlands presented to geologists who were just learning to decipher the very complex processes of mountain building and metamorphism. David Oldroyd follows this controversy into the last years of the nineteenth century, as geology was transformed by increasing professionalization and by the development of new field and laboratory techniques. In telling this story, Oldroyd's aim is to analyze how scientific knowledge is constructed within a competitive scientific community—how theory, empirical findings, and social factors interact in the formation of knowledge. Oldroyd uses archival material and his own extensive reconstruction of the nineteenth-century fieldwork in a case study showing how detailed maps and sections made it possible to understand the exceptionally complex geological structure of the Highlands An invaluable addition to the history of geology, The Highlands Controversy also makes important contributions to our understanding of the social and conceptual processes of scientific work, especially in times of heated dispute.