Author: John Stuart BlackiePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Crofters
Languages : en
Pages : 322
Book Description
Warriors of the Word
Author: Michael NewtonPublisher: Birlinn
ISBN: 0857907670
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 409
Book Description
An enlightening illustrated overview of Gaelic culture and history in Scotland. Words have always held great power in the Gaelic traditions of the Scottish Highlands: Bardic poems bought immortality for their subjects; satires threatened to ruin reputations and cause physical injury; clan sagas recounted family origins and struggles for power; incantations invoked blessings and curses. Even in the present, Gaels strive to counteract centuries of misrepresentation of the Highlands as a backwater of barbarism without a valid story of its own to tell. Warriors of the Word offers a broad overview of Scottish Highland culture and history, bringing together rare and previously untranslated primary texts from scattered and obscure sources. Poetry, songs, tales, and proverbs, supplemented by the accounts of insiders and travelers, illuminate traditional ways of life, exploring such topics as folklore, music, dance, literature, social organization, supernatural beliefs, human ecology, ethnic identity, and the role of language. This range of materials allows Scottish Gaeldom to be described on its own terms and to demonstrate its vitality and wealth of renewable cultural resources—making this an essential compendium for scholars, students, and all enthusiasts of Scottish culture.
Scottish Highlanders in Colonial Georgia: The Recruitment, Emigration, and Settlement at Darien, 1735-1748
Author: Anthony W. ParkerPublisher: University of Georgia Press
ISBN: 0820327182
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 200
Book Description
Between 1735 and 1748 hundreds of young men and their families emigrated from the Scottish Highlands to the Georgia coast to settle and protect the new British colony. These men were recruited by the trustees of the colony and military governor James Oglethorpe, who wanted settlers who were accustomed to hardship, militant in nature, and willing to become frontier farmer-soldiers. In this respect, the Highlanders fit the bill perfectly through training and tradition. Recruiting and settling the Scottish Highlanders as the first line of defense on the southern frontier in Georgia was an important decision on the part of the trustees and crucial for the survival of the colony, but this portion of Georgia's history has been sadly neglected until now. By focusing on the Scots themselves, Anthony W. Parker explains what factors motivated the Highlanders to leave their native glens of Scotland for the pine barrens of Georgia and attempts to account for the reasons their cultural distinctiveness and "old world" experience aptly prepared them to play a vital role in the survival of Georgia in this early and precarious moment in its history.
White People, Indians, and Highlanders
Author: Colin G. CallowayPublisher: OUP USA
ISBN: 0195340124
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 391
Book Description
A comparative approach to the American Indians and Scottish Highlanders, this book examines the experiences of clans and tribal societies, which underwent parallel experiences on the peripheries of Britain's empire in Britain, the United States, and Canada.
Slaves and Highlanders
Author: David AlstonPublisher:
ISBN: 9781474427319
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Explores the prominent role of Highland Scots in the slavery industry of the cotton, sugar and coffee plantations of the 18th and 19th centuries. Longlisted for the 2021 Highland Book Prize.
The Scottish Highlanders and the Land Laws
Author: John Stuart BlackiePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Crofters
Languages : en
Pages : 322
Book Description
Scottish Highlanders
Author: Charles MacKinnonPublisher: Barnes & Noble Publishing
ISBN: 9780880299503
Category : Clans
Languages : en
Pages : 278
Book Description
The Highlanders of Scotland
Author: Skene, William F.Publisher: Delmarva Publications, Inc.
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 539
Book Description
The Highlanders of Scotland is a two-volume set by William F. Skene. Volume I contains the origin, history, and antiquities of the Higlanders as well as a sketch of their manners and customs. The second is an account of the clans into which they were divided and the state of society that existed among them. It was edited by Alexander Macbain and contains notes by him as well. William F. Skene, was declared "British Authors of the Nineteenth Century" by H. W. Wilson Company, New York, 1936.
An Historical Account of the Settlements of Scotch Highlanders in America
Author: J. P MacleanPublisher:
ISBN: 3752412208
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 402
Book Description
Reproduction of the original: An Historical Account of the Settlements of Scotch Highlanders in America by J. P Maclean
Manners, Customs, and History of the Highlanders of Scotland
Author: Walter ScottPublisher: Barnes & Noble Publishing
ISBN: 9780760758694
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 196
Book Description
The History of the Scottish Highlands, Highland Clans and Highland Regiments
Author: Sir John Scott KeltiePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Clans
Languages : en
Pages : 246
Book Description