The Saltoun Papers

The Saltoun Papers
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Publisher : The Saltire Society
Total Pages : 204
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ISBN-10 : 085411081X
ISBN-13 : 9780854110810
Rating : 4/5 (1X Downloads)

Synopsis The Saltoun Papers by : Paul Henderson Scott

A wide range of topics is covered: identity, nationalism, language, patriotism, the Union of 1707, in all its manifestations, and relations with Europe and the world, and controversial and often opposing views are argued with passion and authority.

The Search for Salvation

The Search for Salvation
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Publisher : Birlinn Ltd
Total Pages : 223
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ISBN-10 : 9781788856003
ISBN-13 : 1788856007
Rating : 4/5 (03 Downloads)

Synopsis The Search for Salvation by : Audrey-Beth Fitch

The Search for Salvation is an innovative and interdisciplinary study of lay faith in Scotland in the later Milddle Ages, examining both the religious ideas and practices of the people, and the ways in which these were shaped by images in literature, art, and church writings. Contrary to traditional views, which portray the late medieval Scottish church as weak and corrupt, the book argues for the vitality and flourishing of lay piety in the later fifteenth and first half of the sixteenth century. It thus sheds new light on the coming of the Protestant Reformation, as well as revealing the richness of the world of medieval Scottish religious imagery. Each chapter examines one aspect of faith and the lay responses to it. The first part of the book discusses three central concepts in people's understanding of death and salvation - the Day of Judgement, Heaven and Hell, and Purgatory. The second part looks at the way in which people perceived of and related to three central figures of Christianity: God, Mary and Jesus. In examining such a wide variety of beliefs, the book goes beyond the study of religion to provide an understanding of the nature and functioning of medieval society as a whole.

More Fruitful Than the Soil

More Fruitful Than the Soil
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Publisher : Birlinn Ltd
Total Pages : 446
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ISBN-10 : 9781788853927
ISBN-13 : 178885392X
Rating : 4/5 (27 Downloads)

Synopsis More Fruitful Than the Soil by : Andrew MacKillop

This book analyses the origins, development and impact of British Army recruiting in the Scottish Highlands in the period from 1739 to 1815. It examines the interaction of government, landlords and tenantry. Recruiting is analysed within the context of rapid socio-economic change. The emphasis is on tenant reactions to recruiting, and the study concludes that this was a vital factor in bringing about change in the tenurial structure in the region. Both the decline of the tacksman and the emergence of crofting are linked to the process of regiment raising. Military recruiting involved a clear recognition on the part of the Highland landlords and tenantry that the Empire and the 'fiscal military state' offered alternative sources of revenue. Both groups 'colonised' various levels of the state's military machine. As a result of this close involvement, the government remained a vital influence in the area well after 1745, and a major player in the region's economy. Recruiting was not simply a residue of clanship, rather it was a form of commercial activity, analogous to kelping.

Andrew Fletcher and The Treaty of The Union

Andrew Fletcher and The Treaty of The Union
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Publisher : Birlinn
Total Pages : 486
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ISBN-10 : 9780857906335
ISBN-13 : 085790633X
Rating : 4/5 (35 Downloads)

Synopsis Andrew Fletcher and The Treaty of The Union by : Paul Henderson Scott

Andrew Fletcher has been known since his own lifetime as "The Patriot" because of his determined resistance to the parliamentary Union of Scotland and England in 1707. More recently he has won a new reputation for the boldness, lucidity and originality of his political thought, in which he advocated parliamentary democracy, Scottish independence and European co-operation. This biography of Fletcher describes the events which led to the Union, and offers a critical analysis of his essays and speeches which takes account of recent scholarship on the subject.

Persifor Frazer's Descendants ...: Notes and papers of or connected with Persifor Frazer in Glasslough, Ireland, and his son, John Frazer of Philadelphia, 1735-1765.- v. 2. General Persifor Frazer, a memoir compiled principally from his own papers

Persifor Frazer's Descendants ...: Notes and papers of or connected with Persifor Frazer in Glasslough, Ireland, and his son, John Frazer of Philadelphia, 1735-1765.- v. 2. General Persifor Frazer, a memoir compiled principally from his own papers
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Publisher :
Total Pages : 134
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ISBN-10 : WISC:89066143579
ISBN-13 :
Rating : 4/5 (79 Downloads)

Synopsis Persifor Frazer's Descendants ...: Notes and papers of or connected with Persifor Frazer in Glasslough, Ireland, and his son, John Frazer of Philadelphia, 1735-1765.- v. 2. General Persifor Frazer, a memoir compiled principally from his own papers by : Persifor Frazer

New Perspectives on the Politics and Culture of Early Modern Scotland

New Perspectives on the Politics and Culture of Early Modern Scotland
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Publisher : Birlinn Ltd
Total Pages : 533
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ISBN-10 : 9781788854160
ISBN-13 : 1788854160
Rating : 4/5 (60 Downloads)

Synopsis New Perspectives on the Politics and Culture of Early Modern Scotland by : John Dwyer

This collection of essays on early modern Scotland offers 'new perspectives' on aspects of Scottish history from 1560 to 1800. Some essays challenge accepted interpretations; others explore subjects and sources that have previously not attracted the attention of historians; all represent new research on Scottish history from the Reformation to the Enlightenment. They indicate renewed interest in an age crucial to the development of modern Scotland. Contents: Rex Stoicus – George Buchanan, James VI and the Scottish Polity, Scotland, Antichrist and the Invention of Great Britain. Scottish Gaeldom, 1638–1651: The Vernacular Response to the Covenanting Dynamic. The Military and Ministers as Agents of Presbyterian Imperialism in England and Ireland, 1640–1648. Sackcloth for the Sinner or Punishment for the Crime? Church and Secular Courts in Cromwellian Scotland. York in Edinburgh: James VII and the Patronage of Learning in Scotland, 1679–1688. The Polite Academy and the Presbyterians, 1720–1770. Moderates, Managers and Popular Politics in mid-18th century Edinburgh: The Drysdale 'Bustle' of the 1760s. Paradigms and Politics: Manners, Morals and the Rise of Henry Dundas, 1770–1784. Rethinking Das Adam Smith Problem. Childhood and Society in 18th Century Scotland. The Heavenly City of the 18th Century Moderate Divines.

War, State, and Society in Mid-Eighteenth-Century Britain and Ireland

War, State, and Society in Mid-Eighteenth-Century Britain and Ireland
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Publisher : OUP Oxford
Total Pages : 356
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ISBN-10 : 9780191531118
ISBN-13 : 0191531111
Rating : 4/5 (18 Downloads)

Synopsis War, State, and Society in Mid-Eighteenth-Century Britain and Ireland by : Stephen Conway

This book explores the impact of the wars of 1739-63 on Britain and Ireland. The period was dominated by armed struggle between Britain and the Bourbon powers, particularly France. These wars, especially the Seven Years War of 1756-63, saw a considerable mobilization of manpower, materiel and money. They had important affects on the British and Irish economies, on social divisions and the development of what we might term social policy, on popular and parliamentary politics, on religion, on national sentiment, and on the nature and scale of Britain's overseas possessions and attitudes to empire. To fight these wars, partnerships of various kinds were necessary. Partnership with European allies was recognized, at least by parts of the political nation, to be essential to the pursuit of victory. Partnership with the North American colonies was also seen as imperative to military success. Within Britain and Ireland, partnerships were no less important. The peoples of the different nations of the two islands were forced into partnership, or entered into it willingly, in order to fight the conflicts of the period and to resist Bourbon invasion threats. At the level of 'high' politics, the Seven Years War saw the forming of an informal partnership between Whigs and Tories in support of the Pitt-Newcastle government's prosecution of the war. The various Protestant denominations - established churches and Dissenters - were brought into a form of partnership based on Protestant solidarity in the face of the Catholic threat from France and Spain. And, perhaps above all, partnerships were forged between the British state and local and private interest in order to secure the necessary mobilization of men, resources, and money.

Mediation and Children's Reading

Mediation and Children's Reading
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Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Total Pages : 265
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ISBN-10 : 9781611463279
ISBN-13 : 1611463270
Rating : 4/5 (79 Downloads)

Synopsis Mediation and Children's Reading by : Anne Marie Hagen

This collection of essays explores the cultural significance of children’s reading by analyzing a series of Anglo-American case studies from the eighteenth century to the present. Marked by historical continuity and technological change, children’s reading proves to be a phenomenon with broad influence, one that shapes both the development of individual readers and wider social values. The essays in this volume capture such complexity by invoking the conception of “mediation” to approach children’s reading as a site of interaction among individual people, material texts, and institutional networks. Featuring a range of scholarly perspectives from the disciplines of literature, education, graphic design, and library and information science, this collection uncovers both the intricacies and wider stakes of children’s reading. The books, public programs, and archives that focus explicitly on children’s interests and needs are powerful arenas that give expression to the key ideological investments of a culture.

Papers from the Collection of Sir William Fraser

Papers from the Collection of Sir William Fraser
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Publisher : Edinburgh : Scottish History Society
Total Pages : 348
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ISBN-10 : STANFORD:36105117387766
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Rating : 4/5 (66 Downloads)

Synopsis Papers from the Collection of Sir William Fraser by : Sir William Fraser

The Correspondence of Adam Ferguson Vol 2

The Correspondence of Adam Ferguson Vol 2
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Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Total Pages : 387
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ISBN-10 : 9781040250259
ISBN-13 : 1040250254
Rating : 4/5 (59 Downloads)

Synopsis The Correspondence of Adam Ferguson Vol 2 by : Vincenzo Merolle

This Pickering edition of Adam Ferguson's correspondence contains over 400 letters, most of which have never before been published. The correspondence includes letters between Ferguson and Adam Smith, David Hume and Alexander Carlyle and many other central figures of the Scottish Enlightenment.