Author: LawsonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 542
Book Description
Scotland Delineated
Author: LawsonScotland Delineated
Author: Robert HeronCatalogue of the Hoare Library at Stourhead, Co. Wilts
Author: Sir Richard Colt HoarePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Antiquities
Languages : en
Pages : 818
Book Description
Catalogue of the Hoare Library at Stourhead, ... Wilts. To which are added, an Account of the Museum of British Antiquities, a Catalogue of the Prints and Drawings, and a Description of the Mansion, by the late Sir R. C. Hoare, Bart. (Memoir of Sr. R. C. Hoare, ... partly written by himself.-Chronological list of the works of Sir R. C. Hoare.).
Author: John Bowyer NICHOLSThe Geographies of Enlightenment Edinburgh
Author: Phil DoddsPublisher: Boydell & Brewer
ISBN: 1783277033
Category : Edinburgh (Scotland)
Languages : en
Pages : 381
Book Description
Edinburgh was an Enlightenment city of regional, national and global influence. But how did the people of Enlightenment Edinburgh understand and order their world? How did they encounter, compare and produce different kinds of spaces, from the urban to the world scale? And how did this city set the universal standards by which other places should be judged and transformed? The Geographies of Enlightenment Edinburgh answers these questions by exploring the thousands of urban plans, county surveys, travel accounts and encyclopaedias that passed through a busy Edinburgh bookshop over four decades. It reveals how these geographical publications were produced and shared, and sheds light on the people who bought and used them - including moral philosophers, silk merchants, school teachers, ship's surgeons and slave owners. This is the story of how specific methods of mapping space came ultimately to predict and organize it, creating a new world in Edinburgh's image. By connecting global processes of knowledge production to intimate accounts of its reception in the city, this book deepens our understanding of the Scottish Enlightenment and the world it made.
A List of Works Relating to Scotland
Author: New York Public LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Scotland
Languages : en
Pages : 1256
Book Description
Remarks on Mr. Brown's Vindication of the Presbyterian Form of Church Government, &c
Author: Robert LittlePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Presbyterian Church
Languages : en
Pages : 772
Book Description
Gaelic Scotland
Author: Charles W J WithersPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317332806
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 414
Book Description
This book, originally published in 1988, examines the Highlands and Islands of Scotland over several centuries and charts their cultural transformation from a separate region into one where the processes of anglicisation have largely succeeded. It analyses the many aspects of change including the policies of successive governments, the decline of the Gaelic language, the depressing of much of the population into peasantry and the clearances.
History of Everyday Life in Scotland, 1600 to 1800
Author: Elizabeth A FoysterPublisher: Edinburgh University Press
ISBN: 0748629068
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 352
Book Description
This book explores the ordinary daily routines, behaviours, experiences and beliefs of the Scottish people during a period of immense political, social and economic change. It underlines the importance of the church in post-Reformation Scottish society, but also highlights aspects of everyday life that remained the same, or similar, notwithstanding the efforts of the kirk, employers and the state to alter behaviours and attitudes.Drawing upon and interrogating a range of primary sources, the authors create a richly coloured, highly-nuanced picture of the lives of ordinary Scots from birth through marriage to death. Analytical in approach, the coverage of topics is wide, ranging from the ways people made a living, through their non-work activities including reading, playing and relationships, to the ways they experienced illness and approached death.This volume:*Provides a rich and finely nuanced social history of the period 1600-1800 *Gets behind the politics of Union and Jacobitism, and the experience of agricultural and industrial 'revolution'*Presents the scholarly expertise of its contributing authors in a accessible way*Includes a guide to further reading indicating sources for further study
Tourism and Identity in Scotland, 1770–1914
Author: Katherine Haldane GrenierPublisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1351878662
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 268
Book Description
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.