Author: John Mackintosh (LL.D.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 532
Book Description
The history of civilisation in Scotland
Author: John Mackintosh (LL.D.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 532
Book Description
The History of Civilisation in Scotland
Author: John MackintoshPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Scotland
Languages : en
Pages : 484
Book Description
The Invention of Scotland
Author: Hugh Trevor-RoperPublisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300176538
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 328
Book Description
This book argues that while Anglo-Saxon culture has given rise to virtually no myths at all, myth has played a central role in the historical development of Scottish identity. Hugh Trevor-Roper explores three myths across 400 years of Scottish history: the political myth of the "ancient constitution" of Scotland; the literary myth, including Walter Scott as well as Ossian and ancient poetry; and the sartorial myth of tartan and the kilt, invented--ironically, by Englishmen--in quite modern times. Trevor-Roper reveals myth as an often deliberate cultural construction used to enshrine a people's identity. While his treatment of Scottish myth is highly critical, indeed debunking, he shows how the ritualization and domestication of Scotland's myths as local color diverted the Scottish intelligentsia from the path that led German intellectuals to a dangerous myth of racial supremacy. This compelling manuscript was left unpublished on Trevor-Roper's death in 2003 and is now made available for the first time. Written with characteristic elegance, lucidity, and wit, and containing defiant and challenging opinions, it will absorb and provoke Scottish readers while intriguing many others. "I believe that the whole history of Scotland has been coloured by myth; and that myth, in Scotland, is never driven out by reality, or by reason, but lingers on until another myth has been discovered, or elaborated, to replace it."-Hugh Trevor-Roper
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.
The Illustrated History of Scotland
Author: Chris TabrahamPublisher:
ISBN: 9781842042151
Category : Scotland
Languages : en
Pages : 224
Book Description
History of Civilization in England
Author: Henry Thomas BucklePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 576
Book Description
Edinburgh
Author: Donald CampbellPublisher: Signal Books
ISBN: 9781902669731
Category : Authors, Scottish
Languages : en
Pages : 298
Book Description
Part of the Cities of the Imagination series, this is an in-depth cultural, historical, and literary guide by a lifelong native to Scotland's vibrant capital and home to one of the world's greatest arts festivals.
History of Civilization in England
Author: Henry Thomas BuckleScotland After the Ice Age
Author: Kevin J. EdwardsPublisher:
ISBN: 9781474467995
Category : SCIENCE
Languages : en
Pages : 331
Book Description
This book charts the environmental transformation of Scotland from the end of the ice age in an empty land 10,000 years ago to the Viking invasions of an established society 9,000 years later.
History of Civilization in England
Author: Henry Thomas BucklePublisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3752393440
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 294
Book Description
Reproduction of the original: History of Civilization in England by Henry Thomas Buckle