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Category : Scotland
Languages : en
Pages : 526
Book Description
Miscellany of the Scottish History Society
Author: Publications of the Scottish History Society
Author: Publications of the Scottish History Society
Author: Scottish History SocietyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Scotland
Languages : en
Pages : 380
Book Description
Contains the society's Report of the annual meeting, 1st- 1887-l9
Miscellany of the Scottish History Society
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ISBN: 9780906245163
Category : General Strike, Great Britain, 1926
Languages : en
Pages : 307
Book Description
Publications of the Scottish History Society
Author: Scottish History SocietyPublisher:
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Category : Scotland
Languages : en
Pages : 504
Book Description
Publications of the Scottish History Society
Author: Scottish History Society
Author: Miscellany of the Scottish History Society, Volume XVI
Author: Publisher: Scottish History Society 6th
ISBN: 9780906245453
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 409
Book Description
Edited transcriptions, with full notes, of unpublished documents from early modern Scottish history - with subject matter including witchcraft and ghosts.
1715
Author: Daniel SzechiPublisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 9780300111002
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 388
Book Description
Lacking the romantic imagery of the 1745 uprising of supporters of Bonnie Prince Charlie, the Jacobite rebellion of 1715 has received far less attention from scholars. Yet the ’15, just eight years after the union of England and Scotland, was in fact a more significant threat to the British state. This book is the first thorough account of the Jacobite rebellion that might have killed the Act of Union in its infancy. Drawing on a substantial range of fresh primary resources in England, Scotland, and France, Daniel Szechi analyzes not only large and dramatic moments of the rebellion but also the smaller risings that took place throughout Scotland and northern England. He examines the complex reasons that led some men to rebel and others to stay at home, and he reappraises the economic, religious, social, and political circumstances that precipitated a Jacobite rising. Shedding new light on the inner world of the Jacobites, Szechi reveals the surprising significance of their widely supported but ultimately doomed rebellion.
Standardizing Written English
Author: Amy J. DevittPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521024044
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 140
Book Description
Professor Devitt offers a new view of the linguistic process of standardization, the movement of specific language features towards uniformity. Drawing on theoretical arguments and empirical data, she examines the way in which linguistic conformity develops out of variation, and the textual and social factors that influence this process. After defining and clarifying the general theoretical issues involved, the author takes as a specific case study the standardization of written English in Scotland in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, and shows that standardization is a gradual process, that it occurs at significantly different rates and times in different genres, that it encompasses periods of great variation, and that it occurs concurrently with sociopolitical shifts. The interrelationship of linguistic features, genres, and social pressures shape the nature and direction of standardization.