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John Prebble S Scotland
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Author : John Prebble
language : en
Publisher: Pan Macmillan
Release Date : 2012-09-27
John Prebble S Scotland written by John Prebble and has been published by Pan Macmillan this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-09-27 with History categories.
At the age of twenty-one, John Prebble set out to ‘discover’ Scotland, and just as Scott had been enthralled by this fiercely distinctive land, so Prebble’s imagination was similarly enchanted and challenged. The Lion in the North and Culloden, amongst others, are part of that lifelong fascination but John Prebble’s Scotland is a direct result of the re-tracing of earlier steps, drawing upon a rich store of social history, anecdote, folklore and literature to conduct the reader through the Highlands, Isles and Borders. A ‘beautifully written “voyage sentimentale et historique” through romantic Scotland’ Sunday Telegraph ‘People sometimes ask me to recommend a book about Scotland. I shall recommend this one’ Scotsman
The Highland Clearances
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Author : John Prebble
language : en
Publisher: Penguin UK
Release Date : 1982-03-25
The Highland Clearances written by John Prebble and has been published by Penguin UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1982-03-25 with History categories.
In the terrible aftermath of the moorland battle of Culloden, the Highlanders suffered at the hands of their own clan chiefs. Following his magnificent reconstruction of Culloden, John Prebble recounts how the Highlanders were deserted and then betrayed into famine and poverty. While their chiefs grew rich on meat and wool, the people died of cholera and starvation or, evicted from the glens to make way for sheep, were forced to emigrate to foreign lands. ‘Mr Prebble tells a terrible story excellently. There is little need to search further to explain so much of the sadness and emptiness of the northern Highlands today’ The Times.
The King S Jaunt
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Author : John Prebble
language : en
Publisher: HarperCollins
Release Date : 1988
The King S Jaunt written by John Prebble and has been published by HarperCollins this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1988 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
From the mock pageantry of the Highlanders to the carefully stage-managed rediscovery of the Scottish Regalia, this trip was a key event in the creation of romantic Scotland. Behind it all lay the great stage manager, Sir Walter Scott. This was the first visit of a British monarch to Scotland for nearly two hundred years, following only two years after the grim horror of the Radical Insurrection, which saw the last armed rebellion in British history when sixty thousand workers went on strike. The Highland clans that Scott called to Edinburgh were, even as they marched, the subjects of eviction and persecution in their homeland. And yet in this stirring blend of pomp and pageantry, Scott was able to override the grim reality of day-to-day life in a surge of support for a monarch and monarchy, even in England, the subject of ridicule and derision. Prebble brilliantly reveals the rotten heart of corruption, betrayal, and intrigue at the heart of the ceremony of this great occasion, and from it all emerges a vision of Scotland that remains with us today.
The Darien Disaster
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Author : John Prebble
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2002
The Darien Disaster written by John Prebble and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002 with Darien (Panama and Columbia) categories.
The word Darien is a scar on the memory of the Scots, and the hurt is still felt even where the cause of the wound is dimly understood. Three hundred years ago the Parliament of Scotland, in one of its last acts before the nation lost its political identity, defied the King and the persistent hostility of the English to establish a noble trading company, to settle a colony, and to recover its people from a century of despair, privation, famine and decay.The site of the colony, Darien on the Isthmus of Panama, was the enduring dream of William Paterson, the erratically brilliant Scot who had helped to found the Bank of England. He called it 'the door of the seas, and the key of the universe', and believed that it would become a bridge between East and West, an entrepot through which would pass the richest trade in the world.The first attempt to make the Company a joint Scots and English venture was crushed by the English Parliament. The Scots created it by themselves, in a wave of almost hysterical enthusiasm, subscribing half of the nation's capital. Three years later the 'noble undertaking', crippled by the quarrelsome stupidity of its leaders, deliberately obstructed by the English Government, and opposed in arms by Spain, had ended in stunning disaster. Nine fine ships owned by the Company had been sunk, burnt or abandoned. Over two thousand men, women and children who went to the fever-ridden colony never returned. It was a tragic curtain to the last act of Scotland's independence.John Prebble's book is the first detailed account of the Darien Settlement, drawn from original sources in the records of the Company, the journals, letters and memoirs of those who tried to turn William Paterson's dream into reality.
Culloden
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Author : John Prebble
language : en
Publisher: Penguin UK
Release Date : 1967
Culloden written by John Prebble and has been published by Penguin UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1967 with Culloden, Battle of, Scotland, 1746 categories.
The story of the famous battle - from the acclaimed expert on Scottish history. The book begins in the rain at five o’clock on the morning of Wednesday, 16 April 1746, when the Royal Army marched out of Nairn to fight the clans on Culloden Moor. This is the story of the battle and of what followed, the destruction of a way of life and the persecution of a people. It is the story not of Bonnie Prince Charlie but of ordinary men and women involved in the Rebellion, who were described on the gaol registers and regimental rosters of the time as “Common Men.” The book recalls them by name and action, presenting the battle as it was for them, describing their life as fugitives in the glens or as prisoners in the gaols, their transportation to the Virginias or their deaths on the gallows.
Where The Sea Breaks
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Author : John Prebble
language : en
Publisher: Pan Macmillan
Release Date : 2012-09-27
Where The Sea Breaks written by John Prebble and has been published by Pan Macmillan this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-09-27 with Fiction categories.
A German bomber crash-lands on a small Scottish island and the Nazi pilot, with his crew of three, seizes control of the place. Two guns are stripped from the wreckage; an inquisitive collie-dog is killed; a young man is shot dead beside his radio . . . and ‘martial law’ is declared. As thundering seas cut off the island from the mainland, John Prebble works out this wartime story to its terrifying climax. Methodically, brutally the Nazi officer shapes his plans; dumbly, sullenly the Scottish folk hold out and bide their time. Whose nerves will be the first to crack?
Glencoe
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Author : John Prebble
language : en
Publisher: Penguin UK
Release Date : 1973-01-25
Glencoe written by John Prebble and has been published by Penguin UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1973-01-25 with History categories.
'You are hereby ordered to fall upon the rebels, the MacDonalds of Glencoe, and to put all to the sword under seventy.' This was the treacherous and cold-blooded order ruthlessly carried out on 13 February 1692, when the Campbells slaughtered their hosts the MacDonalds at the Massacre of Glencoe. It was a bloody incident which had deep repercussions and was the beginning of the destruction of the Highlanders. John Prebble’s masterly description of the terrible events at Glencoe was praised as ‘Evocative and powerful’ in the Sunday Telegraph.
Culloden
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Author : John Prebble
language : en
Publisher: Random House
Release Date : 2002
Culloden written by John Prebble and has been published by Random House this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002 with Culloden, Battle of, 1746 categories.
For years the legend of Bonnie Prince Charlie and the black memory of Butcher Cumberland have blossomed side by side. Here, from memoirs, letters, newspapers and regimental order books, the author reconstructs the battle and the months that followed.
The Scottish Clearances
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Author : T. M. Devine
language : en
Publisher: Penguin UK
Release Date : 2018-10-04
The Scottish Clearances written by T. M. Devine and has been published by Penguin UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-10-04 with History categories.
'A superb book ... Anybody interested in Scottish history needs to read it' Andrew Marr, Sunday Times Eighteenth-century Scotland is famed for generating many of the enlightened ideas which helped to shape the modern world. But there was in the same period another side to the history of the nation. Many of Scotland's people were subjected to coercive and sometimes violent change, as traditional ways of life were overturned by the 'rational' exploitation of land use. The Scottish Clearances is a superb and highly original account of this sometimes terrible process, which changed the Lowland countryside forever, as it also did, more infamously, the old society of the Highlands. Based on a vast array of original sources, this pioneering book is the first to chart this tumultuous saga in one volume, with due attention to evictions and loss of land in both north and south of the Highland line. In the process, old myths are exploded and familiar assumptions undermined. With many fascinating details and the sense of an epic human story, The Scottish Clearances is an evocative memorial to all whose lives were irreparably changed in the interests of economic efficiency. This is a story of forced clearance, of the destruction of entire communities and of large-scale emigration. Some winners were able to adapt and exploit the new opportunities, but there were also others who lost everything. The clearances created the landscape of Scotland today, but it came at a huge price.
Art And Identity
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Author : Viccy Coltman
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2019-11-14
Art And Identity written by Viccy Coltman and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-11-14 with Art categories.
This lively and erudite cultural history examines how Scottish identity was experienced and represented in novel ways.