A Dance Called America

Author : James Hunter
Publisher : Birlinn Ltd
Page : 412 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2022-05-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9780857907752

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A Dance Called America by James Hunter Pdf

A dance was devised in eighteenth-century Skye. An exhilarating dance. A dance, a visitor reports, 'the emigration from Skye has occasioned'. The visitor asks for the dance's name. 'They call it America,' he's told. In his introduction to this new edition of his classic and pioneering account of what happened to the thousands of people who left Skye and the wider north of Scotland to make new lives across the sea, historian James Hunter reflects on what led him to embark on travels and researches that took him across a continent. To Georgia, North Carolina and Montana; to Nova Scotia, Quebec, Ontario and the Mohawk Valley; to prairie farms and great cities; to the Rocky Mountains, British Columbia and Washington State. This is the story of the Highland impact on the New World. The story of how soldiers, explorers, guerrilla fighters, fur traders, lumberjacks, railway builders and settlers from Scotland's glens and islands contributed so much to the USA and Canada. It is the story of how a hard-pressed people found in North America a land of opportunity.

Author : Eric Richards
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 420 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2004-05-14
Category : History
ISBN : 1852854413

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Britannia's Children by Eric Richards Pdf

The stories behind the mass exodus from Great Brittan from 1600 to modern times

Author : Kate Van Winkle Keller
Publisher : Pendragon Press
Page : 720 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : History
ISBN : 1576471276

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Dance and Its Music in America, 1528-1789 by Kate Van Winkle Keller Pdf

Spanish exploration and settlement -- French exploration and settlement -- The English plantation colonies in the South -- The tobacco colonies -- New England -- The Middle Atlantic colonies.

Author : James Hunter
Publisher : Random House
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2011-03-25
Category : History
ISBN : 9781780570068

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Last of the Free by James Hunter Pdf

Written by award-winning Scottish historian James Hunter, this groundbreaking and definitive account reveals how the Highlands and Islands of Scotland have evolved from a centre of European significance to a Scottish outpost. Never before has the history of the region been recounted so comprehensively and in so much fascinating, often moving, detail. But this book is not simply the story of humanity's millennia-long involvement with one of the world's most spectacular localities. It is also a major contribution to present-day debate about how Scotland, and Britain, should be organised.

Author : J.M. Bumsted
Publisher : Univ. of Manitoba Press
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1982-01-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9780887553820

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The People's Clearance by J.M. Bumsted Pdf

This is a revisionist account of Highland Scottish emigration to what is now Canada, in the formative half century before Waterloo.

Author : Jenni Calder
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2013-05-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9780748647408

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Lost in the Backwoods by Jenni Calder Pdf

How the American wilderness shaped Scottish experience, imagination and identity. How is the Scottish imagination shaped by its emigre experience with wilderness and the extreme? Drawing on journals, emigrant guides, memoirs, letters, poetry and fiction, this book examines patterns of survival, defeat, adaptation and response in North America's harshest landscapes. Most Scots who crossed the Atlantic in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries encountered the practical, moral and cultural challenges of the wilderness, with its many tensions and contradictions. Jenni Calder explores the effect of these experiences on the Scots imagination. Associated with displacement and disappearance, the 'wilderness' was also a source of adventure and redemption, of exploitation and spiritual regeneration, of freedom and restriction. An arena of greed, cruelty and cannibalism, of courage, generosity and mutual understanding, it brought out the best and the worst of humanity. Did the Scots who emigrated exchange one extreme for another, or did they discover a new idea of identity, freedom and landscape?

Author : Christopher A. Whatley
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 071904541X

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Scottish Society, 1707-1830 by Christopher A. Whatley Pdf

This book challenges conventional wisdom and provides new insights into Scottish social and economic history. Christopher A. Whatley argues that the Union of 1707 was vital for Scottish success, but in ways which have hitherto been overlooked. He proposes that the central place of Jacobitism in the historiography of the period should be revised. Comprehensive in its coverage, the book is based not only on an exhaustive reading of secondary material but also incorporates a wealth of new evidence from previously little-used or unused primary sources.

Author : Alistair Moffat
Publisher : Birlinn Ltd
Page : 261 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2023-08-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9781788855877

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War Paths by Alistair Moffat Pdf

Acclaimed historian Alistair Moffat sets off in the footsteps of the Highland clans. In twelve journeys he explores places of conflict, recreating as he walks the tumult of battle. As he recounts the military prowess of the clans – surely the most feared fighting men in western Europe – he also speaks of their lives, their language and culture before it was all swept away. The disaster at Culloden in 1746 represented not just the defeat of the Jacobite dream but also the unleashing of merciless retribution from the British government which dealt the Highland clans a blow from which they would never recover. From the colonisers who attempted to 'civilise' the islanders of Lewis in the sixteenth century through the great battles of the eighteenth century – Killiekrankie, Dunkeld, Sheriffmuir, Falkirk and Culloden – this is a unique exploration of many of the places and events which define a country's history. Locations included are: Prestonpans • Glenfinnan • The Isle of Lewis • Edinburgh • Inverlochy • Tippermuir • Mulroy • Killiecrankie • Dunkeld • Sherriffmuir • Falkirk • Culloden Moor • Arisaig & Morar

Author : Alistair Moffat
Publisher : Birlinn
Page : 561 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2015-09-22
Category : History
ISBN : 9780857908742

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Scotland: A History from Earliest Times by Alistair Moffat Pdf

In this book, Alistair Moffat brings vividly to life the story of this great nation, from the dawn of prehistory through to the twenty-first century. Ambitious, richly detailed and highly readable, Scotland: A History From Earliest Times skilfully weaves together a dazzling array of fact and anecdote from a vast range of sources. The result is an imaginative, informative, balanced and varied portrait of Scotland, seen not just through the experience of the kings, saints, warriors, aristocrats and politicians who populate the pages of conventional history books, but also through that of ordinary people who have lived Scotland's history and have played their own important part in shaping its destiny.

Author : S. David Wilson
Publisher : S. David Wilson
Page : 195 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2024-02-04
Category : History
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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The Celestial Railroad: A Steam Age Saga of Artisanship and Aspiration by S. David Wilson Pdf

This revised annotated work explores the rise and fall of the steam age as it shaped the life of an archetypal industrial family. Particular emphasis is placed on the railroad and shipbuilding industries in Britain and the United States.

Author : Samuel Johnson,James Boswell
Publisher : Birlinn
Page : 609 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2012-09-28
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9780857905161

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To The Hebrides by Samuel Johnson,James Boswell Pdf

Samuel Johnson's Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland and James Boswell's Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides are widely regarded as among the best pieces of travel writing ever produced. Johnson and Boswell spent the autumn of 1773 touring Scotland as far west as the islands of Skye, Raasay, Coll, Mull, Ulva, Inchkenneth and Iona. Highly readable, often profound, and at times very funny, their accounts of the 'jaunt' are above all a valuable record of a society undergoing rapid change. In this pioneering new edition, Ronald Black brings together the two men's starkly contrasting accounts of each of the thirteen stages of the journey. He also restores to Boswell's text 20,000 words from his journal which were denied entry to his book because they were intimate, defamatory, or about the islands rather than Johnson. The endnotes incorporate Boswell's footnotes, translations of Latin passages, a clear summary of pre-existing information on the two texts, and a fresh focus on what the two men actually found on their trip. To the Hebrides also includes contemporary prints by Thomas Rowlandson, seventeen new maps and a comprehensive index.

Author : Edward John Payne
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 648 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 1892
Category : America
ISBN : HARVARD:TZ12DH

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History of the New World Called America: book I. Discovery. book II. Aboriginal America by Edward John Payne Pdf

Author : A. Murdoch
Publisher : Springer
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2004-10-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9780230512252

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British Emigration, 1603-1914 by A. Murdoch Pdf

The idea of Britain has been understood largely in terms of sectarian conflict and state formation, whereas emigration has most often been explored in terms of economic and social history. This book explores the relationship between two subjects normally studied in isolation, and includes emigration from Ireland as a social phenomenon which cannot be understood in isolation from modern British History, as well as the impact of British emigration on the ethos and identity of the British Empire at its zenith at the turn of the Nineteenth and Twentieth centuries.

Author : James Hunter
Publisher : Casemate Publishers
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2014-07-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9780857908346

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On the Other Side of Sorrow by James Hunter Pdf

“An extraordinary intellectual voyage” through Gaelic environmental awareness, centuries ahead of its time, and its value today (The Herald). Caring for the environment, developing rural communities, and ensuring the survival of minority cultures are all laudable objectives, but they can conflict, and nowhere more so than the Scottish Highlands. As environmentalists strive to preserve the scenery and wildlife of the Highlands, the people who belong there, and who have their own claims on the landscape, question this new threat to their culture, which dates back thousands of years. In this sensitive, thought-provoking book, James Hunter probes deep into this culture to examine the dispute between Highlanders, who developed a strong environmental awareness a thousand years before other Europeans, and conservationists, whose thinking owes much to the romantic ideals of the nineteenth century. More than that, he also suggests a new way of dealing with the problem, advocating drastic land-use changes and the repopulation of empty glens—an approach that has worldwide implications. “A very thoughtful piece of advocacy.” —The Scotsman

Author : Lynne Pearce
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2017-03-02
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781351944595

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Devolving Identities by Lynne Pearce Pdf

There is no doubt that the political and cultural map of Europe is in the process of being radically redrawn. Alongside the major upheavals in continental Europe, the British Isles has undergone far-reaching constitutional reform. In Devolving Identities, feminist scholars explore their personal negotiations of gender, class, ethnicity and national or regional identity through their readings of two literary and cultural 'texts'. The collection centres on the ontological experience of reading and writing 'as a feminist', and combines the discussion of texts which are inscribed - whether consciously or unconsciously - with the academics' own struggle to reconcile their 'roots' with their current 'situations' or 'identities'. This book's focus on the overlapping of gender and national or regional identity is a direct response to the devolution movements currently active in the British Isles. The contributors are drawn from Scotland, Wales, Cornwall, Ireland, Northern Ireland and selected regions of England. In its complex engagement of subject and text and its political insistence that we no longer consider key aspects of 'identity' in isolation, this volume presents a truly state-of-the-art investigation of (a) what it means to be 'regionally defined' and (b) how the complexity of our positioning in terms of class, gender and nation impacts upon our practice as literary and cultural critics.