Scotland In The Age Of The French Revolution

Author : Bob Harris
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015062852929

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Scotland in the Age of the French Revolution by Bob Harris Pdf

"Despite the profusion of work in recent decades on Irish and English politics in the French revolutionary era, Scotland in this period remains largely neglected, barely featuring in some recent books ostensibly on the history of Britain. The essays in this volume, written by scholars from Britain and Ireland, will help fill this gap. While not presenting a single, uniform view, several of them at the very least cast doubt on the notion of a Scotland in this period of adamantine stability and begin to recover some powerful dissident voices in the political exchanges of the 1790s. They show that the stability discerned in retrospect by some historians was not what struck most contemporaries who were witness to the successive, often alarming strains and challenges of the period which served cumulatively to shatter any complacency which existed about the terms of elite rule and authority in a society undergoing profound and rapid change."--BOOK JACKET.

Author : Bob Harris
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 349 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2015-09-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317315315

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The Scottish People and the French Revolution by Bob Harris Pdf

Presents a study of the political culture of Scotland in the 1790s. This book compares the emergence of 'the people' as a political force, with popular political movements in England and Ireland. It analyses Scottish responses to the French Revolution across the political spectrum; explaining Loyalist as well as Radical opinions and organisations.

Author : Henry W. Meikle
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1967
Category : France
ISBN : OCLC:222444713

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Scotland and the French Revolution by Henry W. Meikle Pdf

Author : Henry William Meikle
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1969
Category : France
ISBN : UCAL:B4315972

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Scotland and the French Revolution by Henry William Meikle Pdf

Author : Henry W. Meikle
Publisher : Forgotten Books
Page : 350 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2018-01-02
Category : History
ISBN : 0428189164

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Scotland and the French Revolution (Classic Reprint) by Henry W. Meikle Pdf

Excerpt from Scotland and the French Revolution This study of the influence of the French Revolution on Scotland was accepted by the University of Edinburgh as a thesis for the degree of Doctor of Letters. Its main theme is the political awakening of Scotland. I have therefore devoted considerable attention to the various reform move ments which either originated in the political upheaval of the period or were stimulated by it. I have tried to show, more briefly, that although the dread of innovation suspended the activity of the reformers for a time, the Reform Bill of 1832 was due, in part at least, to the agitation engendered forty years before. An attempt has also been made to trace the effects of the French Revolution in other departments of the national life, chiefly social and ecclesiastical, and to describe the role assigned to Scotland in French schemes for invading the British Isles. Though I am indebted to the recent works of Professor Hume Brown, and Dr. W. Law Mathieson, the ampler space at my disposal has enabled me to draw largely on unpublished material, and to give a fuller account of a somewhat neglected aspect of Scottish history than has hitherto been possible. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Author : HENRY W. MEIKLE
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1033349119

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SCOTLAND AND THE FRENCH REVOLUTION by HENRY W. MEIKLE Pdf

Author : Atle Wold
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2015-07-07
Category : History
ISBN : 9781474406680

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Scotland and the French Revolutionary War, 1792-1802 by Atle Wold Pdf

For the British government's supporters in Scotland in the 1790s, one thing was paramount: they were fighting French principles in any shape or form they might take. Whether this meant defeating the influence of French revolutionary ideas in Scotland, or defeating the military menace of the French republic, they were determined to stand firm in their support of the British state.This book charts the Scottish contribution to, both the war effort of the 1790s, and the British governments struggles to defeat political radicalism at home; lasting from the first outbreak of political disturbances in Scotland in 1792, until the French revolutionary war came to an end in 1802. In this, the Scots made their very distinct mark in terms of recruitment for armed service, demonstrations of loyalty, and prosecutions against political radicals in the law courts but, perhaps less so, in terms of their financial contributions . The government of Scotland was further integrated into the British state in a structural sense over the course of the decade, yet retained many distinctly Scottish features none the less and on the whole the 1790s comes across as a time when the Scots found little difficulty in seeing themselves as both British and Scottish.

Author : Elaine W. McFarland
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015034261613

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Ireland and Scotland in the Age of Revolution by Elaine W. McFarland Pdf

"The United Irishmen were one of the most determined and energetic radical organisations challenging the old regime in the British Isles at the end of the eighteenth century. Based on extensive new research, this book explores a previously little-known dimension of their activity - their involvement in Scottish society and politics - and sets the Scottish relationship against the climate of international brotherhood which followed the French Revolution." "From the 'Polite Era' of constitutional reform, to the role of Irish agents in the creation of a Scottish revolutionary underground, it describes the growth of ideological and organisational connections between Irish and Scottish radical movements. It then examines the United Irishmen's Rebellion of 1798 and its impact on the Scottish press, government agencies and the radicals themselves, before exploring the fate of refugees from the Irish crisis in the political and industrial strife in Scotland in the early nineteenth century." "This challenging book places Scottish radicalism within its full European context, and sheds new light on the nature of the United Irishmen's movement and the threat it posed to the existing social order."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved

Author : Deidre Dawson,Pierre Morère
Publisher : Bucknell University Press
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : History
ISBN : 0838755267

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Scotland and France in the Enlightenment by Deidre Dawson,Pierre Morère Pdf

The Scottish and French Enlightenments are arguably the two intellectual movements of the eighteenth century that were most influential in shaping the modern age. The essays in Scotland and France in the Enlightenment explore a wide range of topics of historical relevance to eighteenth-century scholars, while engaging students with broad interdisciplinary interests in the humanities and social sciences. The ways in which Scottish philosophy influenced French painting, how the Encyclopaedia Britannica presented the French Revolution, the impact of Macpherson's Ossian on the development of French Romanticism, the moral education of children, the relation between reflection and perception in the arts and in moral life, humankind's relationship to other animals, and the links between violence and imagination, fear and sanity, are only some of the topics covered. This challenging selection of essays comparing Scottish and French enlightenment views of natural history, jurisprudence, moral philosophy, history, and art history complicates and enriches the notion of Enlightenment, and will inaugurate a new field of Franco-Scottish studies.

Author : Bob Harris
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 311 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2015-09-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317315308

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The Scottish People and the French Revolution by Bob Harris Pdf

Presents a study of the political culture of Scotland in the 1790s. This book compares the emergence of 'the people' as a political force, with popular political movements in England and Ireland. It analyses Scottish responses to the French Revolution across the political spectrum; explaining Loyalist as well as Radical opinions and organisations.

Author : Anna Plassart
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 267 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2015-05-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107091764

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The Scottish Enlightenment and the French Revolution by Anna Plassart Pdf

This book offers the first study of the Scottish Enlightenment reception and interpretation of the French Revolution.

Author : Atle L. Wold
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : France
ISBN : 1474415962

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Scotland and the French Revolutionary War, 1792-1802 by Atle L. Wold Pdf

This is a study of Scotland's role in the French Revolutionary War. It charts the Scottish contribution to the war effort, as well as to the British government's struggles to defeat political radicalism at home - lasting from the first outbreak of political disturbances in Scotland in 1792 until the War came to an end in 1802.

Author : Atle Wold
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2015-07-07
Category : History
ISBN : 9781474403320

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Scotland and the French Revolutionary War, 1792-1802 by Atle Wold Pdf

Scotland and the French Revolutionary War, 1792-1802 aims to provide an up-dated discussion of the nature and extent of Scottish support for the British state in the 1790s.

Author : Albert Goodwin
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 578 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2016-06-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317189862

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The Friends of Liberty by Albert Goodwin Pdf

This book, originally published in 1979, traces the growth of English radicalism from the time of Wilkes to the final suppression of the radical societies in 1799. The metropolitan radical movement is described in the context of the general democratic evolution of the West in the age of the American and French revolutions, by showing how its direction was influenced by events in France, Scotland and Ireland. The book emphasizes the importance of the great regional centres of provincial radicalism and of the evolution of a local, radical press. It also throws light on the impact of Painite radicalism, the origins of Anglo-french hostilities in 1793, the English treason trials of 1794, the protest movement of 1795 and the final phase of Anglo-Irish clandestine republicanism.

Author : Kenny MacAskill
Publisher : Biteback Publishing
Page : 247 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2020-02-27
Category : History
ISBN : 9781785905827

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Radical Scotland by Kenny MacAskill Pdf

The Political Martyrs memorial in Edinburgh looms large on the city's skyline but its history is relatively unknown. And that is not by accident. As Edinburgh's New Town was constructed, a narrative of kilts and loyalty was created for Scotland, with its radical history deliberately excluded. The French Revolution lit a spark in Scotland, inspiring radicals and working people alike, and uniting them in opposition to the King and his government. The oligarchy of landowners that ran Scotland was worried. Leading radicals like Thomas Muir and fellow political reformists were later rounded up and transported to Botany Bay. But they fought back and formed the Society of the United Scotsmen, seeking widespread political reform throughout the Union and were prepared to use physical force in defence of their ideals. As social and economic hardship followed in Waterloo's wake, the flame of radicalism was further ignited. This is Scotland's radical history.