Lectures On The Mountains Or The Highlands And Highlanders As They Were And As They Are By W G Stewart
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Lectures On The Mountains Or The Highlands And Highlanders As They Were And As They Are By W G Stewart
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Author : William Grant Stewart
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1860
Lectures On The Mountains Or The Highlands And Highlanders As They Were And As They Are By W G Stewart written by William Grant Stewart and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1860 with categories.
Lectures On The Mountains Or The Highlands And Highlanders As They Were And As They Are By W G Stewart
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Author : William Grant Stewart
language : en
Publisher: Palala Press
Release Date : 2016-05-20
Lectures On The Mountains Or The Highlands And Highlanders As They Were And As They Are By W G Stewart written by William Grant Stewart and has been published by Palala Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-05-20 with categories.
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Lectures On The Mountains Or The Highlands And Highlanders As They Were And As They Are
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Release Date : 1860
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Lectures On The Mountains
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Author : William Grant Stewart
language : en
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Release Date : 1860
Lectures On The Mountains written by William Grant Stewart and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1860 with Highlands (Scotland) categories.
The Great Highland Famine
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Author : Tom M. Devine
language : en
Publisher: Birlinn Ltd
Release Date : 2021-09-02
The Great Highland Famine written by Tom M. Devine and has been published by Birlinn Ltd this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-09-02 with Social Science categories.
The Great Hunger in nineteenth-century Ireland was a major human tragedy of modern times. Almost a million perished and a further two million emigrated in the wake of potato blight and economic collapse. Acute famine also gripped the Scottish Highlands at the same time, causing misery, hardship and distress. The story of that lesser known human disaster is told in this prize-winning and internationally acclaimed book. The author describes the classic themes of highland and Scottish history, including the clearances, landlordism, crofting life, emigration and migration in a subtle and intricate reconstruction based on a wide range of sources. This book should appeal to all those with an interest in Scottish history, the emigration of Scottish people and the Highland Clearances.
The People Are Not There
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Author : David Taylor
language : en
Publisher: Birlinn Ltd
Release Date : 2022-08-04
The People Are Not There written by David Taylor and has been published by Birlinn Ltd this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-08-04 with History categories.
Badenoch today is a landscape of empty glens and ruined settlements, but it was not always so. This book examines the transformative events that shaped the region's destiny: climate and market forces, hunger and relief measures, sheep farms and sporting estates, agricultural improvement and proprietorial greed, and the evolution of clanship. Although this is an intensely localised study, the dramatic nature of change is explored against the wider context of events not just across the Highlands, but also within the British state and its global empire. Badenoch's journey moves from the relative prosperity of the Napoleonic Wars into the terrible post-war destitution that devastated peasant, tacksman and Duke of Gordon alike. Estate reform and 'improvement' gradually brought a degree of economic and social stability, but inevitably resulted in depopulation as people were forced off the land to seek refuge in the impoverished 'planned villages' or to abandon their Gaelic homeland for life in the Lowlands. For those with the means, however, emigration provided lucrative opportunities unimaginable at home. Through extensive use of documentary evidence, much of it previously unseen, David Taylor paints an intimate portrait of the historically neglected region of Badenoch – one that provides a compelling new perspective on Highland history.
Gaelic In Scotland 1698 1981
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Author : Charles W. J. Withers
language : en
Publisher: Birlinn Ltd
Release Date : 2021-12-01
Gaelic In Scotland 1698 1981 written by Charles W. J. Withers and has been published by Birlinn Ltd this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-12-01 with History categories.
Surprisingly little is known of the geographical history of Gaelic: where and when it was spoken in the past, and how and why the Gaelic-speaking area of Scotland – the Gaidhealtachd – has retreated and the language declined. A hundred years ago there were 250,000 Gaelic speakers. Now there are 80,000. This book answers four broad questions: What has been the geography of Gaelic in the past? How has that geography changed over time and space? What have been the patterns of language use within the Gaedhealtachd in the past? And what have been the processes of language change? Emphasis is upon the changing geography of the spoken language from 1698 to 1981: from the earliest date for which it is possible to document the expanse of the Gaelic language area to the most recent census to record the numbers speaking Gaelic.
Clearance And Improvement
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Author : Tom M. Devine
language : en
Publisher: Birlinn Ltd
Release Date : 2010-02-01
Clearance And Improvement written by Tom M. Devine and has been published by Birlinn Ltd this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-02-01 with History categories.
Social and economic changes included an increase in production of food and raw materials, in turn sustaining the remarkable growth of towns and cities over this period. However, in the folk memory of Scotland the social and cultural costs of the revolution loom much larger: the loss of land for many thousands of families; the rise of individualism and the decline of neighborhood; the death of old rural societies which had formed Scotland's character for many generations. The drama and tragedy of Highland history during this period have attracted many authors, whereas the Lowland experience, that of the majority of Scots, hardly any. This book attempts to redress that balance, and in so doing examines why this extraordinary era, inextricably associated with failure, famine and clearance in Gaeldom, is remembered as one of 'improvements' in the Lowlands, where the folk memory of dispossession, if it ever existed, is long lost in collective amnesia. In so doing, Devine addresses an issue which goes right to the heart of the nation's past.
Gaelic Cape Breton Step Dancing
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Author : John G. Gibson
language : en
Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Release Date : 2017-07-04
Gaelic Cape Breton Step Dancing written by John G. Gibson and has been published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-07-04 with Performing Arts categories.
The step-dancing of the Scotch Gaels in Nova Scotia is the last living example of a form of dance that waned following the great emigrations to Canada that ended in 1845. The Scotch Gael has been reported as loving dance, but step-dancing in Scotland had all but disappeared by 1945. One must look to Gaelic Nova Scotia, Cape Breton, and Antigonish County, to find this tradition. Gaelic Cape Breton Step-Dancing, the first study of its kind, gives this art form and the people and culture associated with it the prominence they have long deserved. Gaelic Scotland’s cultural record is by and large pre-literate, and references to dance have had to be sought in Gaelic songs, many of which were transcribed on paper by those who knew their culture might be lost with the decline of their language. The improved Scottish culture depended proudly on the teaching of dancing and the literate learning and transmission of music in accompaniment. Relying on fieldwork in Nova Scotia, and on mentions of dance in Gaelic song and verse in Scotland and Nova Scotia, John Gibson traces the historical roots of step-dancing, particularly the older forms of dancing originating in the Gaelic–speaking Scottish Highlands. He also places the current tradition as a development and part of the much larger British and European percussive dance tradition. With insight collected through written sources, tales, songs, manuscripts, book references, interviews, and conversations, Gaelic Cape Breton Step-Dancing brings an important aspect of Gaelic history to the forefront of cultural debate.
British Museum Catalogue Of Printed Books
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language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1895
British Museum Catalogue Of Printed Books written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1895 with categories.