Author: Joseph IrvingPublisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3385422795
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 586
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1881.
The book of Scotsmen Eminent for Achievements in Arms and Arts
Author: Joseph IrvingPublisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3385422795
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 586
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1881.
The Book of Scotsmen Eminent for Achievements in Arms and Arts, Church and State, Law, Legislation, and Literature, Commerce, Science, Travel, and Philanthropy
Author: Joseph IrvingPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Celebrities
Languages : en
Pages : 660
Book Description
How the Scots Invented the Modern World
Author: Arthur HermanPublisher: Crown
ISBN: 0307420957
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 482
Book Description
An exciting account of the origins of the modern world Who formed the first literate society? Who invented our modern ideas of democracy and free market capitalism? The Scots. As historian and author Arthur Herman reveals, in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries Scotland made crucial contributions to science, philosophy, literature, education, medicine, commerce, and politics—contributions that have formed and nurtured the modern West ever since. Herman has charted a fascinating journey across the centuries of Scottish history. Here is the untold story of how John Knox and the Church of Scotland laid the foundation for our modern idea of democracy; how the Scottish Enlightenment helped to inspire both the American Revolution and the U.S. Constitution; and how thousands of Scottish immigrants left their homes to create the American frontier, the Australian outback, and the British Empire in India and Hong Kong. How the Scots Invented the Modern World reveals how Scottish genius for creating the basic ideas and institutions of modern life stamped the lives of a series of remarkable historical figures, from James Watt and Adam Smith to Andrew Carnegie and Arthur Conan Doyle, and how Scottish heroes continue to inspire our contemporary culture, from William “Braveheart” Wallace to James Bond. And no one who takes this incredible historical trek will ever view the Scots—or the modern West—in the same way again.
Publications of the Scottish History Society
Author: Scottish History SocietyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Scotland
Languages : en
Pages : 312
Book Description
Publications of the Scottish History Society
Author: A Contribution to the Bibliography of Scottish Topography
Author: Sir Arthur MitchellPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Scotland
Languages : en
Pages : 316
Book Description
Bibliotheca Scotia
Author: John Smith & SonsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Booksellers' catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 380
Book Description
Ecosse topo-bibliographique
Author: Ulysse ChevalierHistory of Scottish Women's Writing
Author: Douglas GiffordPublisher: Edinburgh University Press
ISBN: 0748672664
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 741
Book Description
This is the first comprehensive critical analysis of Scottish women's writing from its recoverable beginnings to the present day. Essays cover individual writers - such as Margaret Oliphant, Nan Shepherd, Muriel Spark and Liz Lochhead - as well as groups of writers or kinds of writing - such as women poets and dramatists, or Gaelic writing and the legacy of the Kailyard. In addition to poetry, drama and fiction, a varied body of non-fiction writing is also covered, including diaries, memoirs, biography and autobiography, didactic and polemic writing, and popular and periodical writing for and by women.
A Handbook of Psychology
Author: John Clark MurrayPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 456
Book Description