Who Built Scotland

Author : Alexander McCall Smith,Alistair Moffat,James Robertson,Kathleen Jamie,James Crawford
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2018-09-13
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1849172722

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Who Built Scotland by Alexander McCall Smith,Alistair Moffat,James Robertson,Kathleen Jamie,James Crawford Pdf

Experience a new history of Scotland told through its places. Writers Kathleen Jamie, Alexander McCall Smith, Alistair Moffat, James Robertson and James Crawford pick twenty-five buildings to tell the story of the nation.Travelling across the country, from abandoned islands and lonely glens to the heart of our modern cities, these five authors seek out the diverse narrative of the Scottish people. Follow Kathleen Jamie as she searches for the traces of our first family hearths in the Cairngorms and makes a midsummer journey to Shetland to meet the unlikely new inhabitants of an Iron Age broch. Tour the wondrous and macabre Surgeons' Hall with Alexander McCall Smith, or walk with him over sacred ground to Iona's ancient Abbey. Join Alistair Moffat as he discovers a lost whisky village in the wilds of Strathconon, and climbs up through the vertiginous layers of history in Edinburgh Castle. Accompany James Robertson as he goes from the standing stones of Callanish to the humble cottage of Hugh MacDiarmid - via the engineering colossus of the Forth Rail Bridge. And journey with James Crawford from a packed crowd in Hampden Park, to an off-the-grid eco-bothy on the Isle of Eigg.Who Built Scotland is a landmark exploration of Scotland's social, political and cultural histories. Moving from Neolithic families, exiled hermits and ambitious royal dynasties to highland shieling girls, peasant poets, Enlightenment philosophers and iconoclastic artists, it places our people, our ideas and our passions at the heart of our architecture and archaeology. This is the remarkable story how we have shaped our buildings and how our buildings, in turn, have shaped us.

Author : Arthur Herman
Publisher : Crown
Page : 482 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2007-12-18
Category : History
ISBN : 9780307420954

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How the Scots Invented the Modern World by Arthur Herman Pdf

An exciting account of the origins of the modern world Who formed the first literate society? Who invented our modern ideas of democracy and free market capitalism? The Scots. As historian and author Arthur Herman reveals, in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries Scotland made crucial contributions to science, philosophy, literature, education, medicine, commerce, and politics—contributions that have formed and nurtured the modern West ever since. Herman has charted a fascinating journey across the centuries of Scottish history. Here is the untold story of how John Knox and the Church of Scotland laid the foundation for our modern idea of democracy; how the Scottish Enlightenment helped to inspire both the American Revolution and the U.S. Constitution; and how thousands of Scottish immigrants left their homes to create the American frontier, the Australian outback, and the British Empire in India and Hong Kong. How the Scots Invented the Modern World reveals how Scottish genius for creating the basic ideas and institutions of modern life stamped the lives of a series of remarkable historical figures, from James Watt and Adam Smith to Andrew Carnegie and Arthur Conan Doyle, and how Scottish heroes continue to inspire our contemporary culture, from William “Braveheart” Wallace to James Bond. And no one who takes this incredible historical trek will ever view the Scots—or the modern West—in the same way again.

Author : Alistair Moffat
Publisher : Thames & Hudson
Page : 444 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2023-09-19
Category : History
ISBN : 9780500778586

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Before Scotland: A Prehistory by Alistair Moffat Pdf

A pioneering look at early Scotland that transforms prehistory into gripping narrative. The story of the land that became Scotland is one of dramatic geological events and impressive human endeavor. Alistair Moffat’s gripping narrative ranges from the great thaw at the end of the Ice Age, which was instrumental in shaping Scotland’s magnificent landscape; through the megalith builders, the Celts, and the Picts; to the ascension of King Constantine II. Moffat deploys his knowledge with wit and deftness, interweaving the story with numerous special features on topics as diverse as cave drawings of dancing girls, natural birth control, the myth of Atlantis, and the Zoroastrian Towers of Silence—all of them valuable, sometimes quirky, additions to the whole picture. Erudite and entertaining, Before Scotland transforms our understanding of a neglected period and is essential reading for anyone interested in the people, events, and monuments that make up Scotland’s captivating past.

Author : Robert Heron
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 536 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1799
Category : Electronic
ISBN : NLS:B000620384

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Observations Made in a Journey Through the Western Counties of Scotland by Robert Heron Pdf

Author : John Brennan
Publisher : Lund Humphries Publishers Limited
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2021-06-07
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 1848224478

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Scotland's Rural Home by John Brennan Pdf

Rural Scotland is a charged landscape, alive with history, soaked in myth and often rather sublime. For those of us living an urban existence, the countryside is a retreat for refuge and decompression, but it is also a place where infrastructures strain to reach and in which livings must be made. The countryside is resistant to easy explanation and is thus vulnerable to stereotyping. The nine building stories told in this book show how rural households and communities define themselves, and the role architecture plays in this. Illustrated with beautiful photography and drawings, the projects, from affordable housing on the islands to exquisite renovations of traditional agricultural stock, and all recognised by the Saltire Society's Housing Design Awards, are visually rich both in themselves and the contexts in which they sit.

Author : Miles Glendinning,Ranald MacInnes,Aonghus MacKechnie
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 656 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 0748607412

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A History of Scottish Architecture by Miles Glendinning,Ranald MacInnes,Aonghus MacKechnie Pdf

This compact yet comprehensive history of Scottish architecture combines factual description of the vast & fertile range of visual forms & key architects in each period with a wide-ranging analysis of their social, ideological & historical context.

Author : John Marius Wilson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 960 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1857
Category : Scotland
ISBN : NLS:B000680332

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The Imperial Gazetteer of Scotland by John Marius Wilson Pdf

Author : Alistair Moffat
Publisher : Birlinn
Page : 561 pages
File Size : 54,5 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 : Richard D. Oram
Publisher : Tempus Publishing, Limited
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : UOM:39015059576770

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David I by Richard D. Oram Pdf

Considered to be one of the greatest of Scotland's medieval kings, David was never expected to succeed to the throne. Before coming to the throne David made a career for himself as an Anglo-Norman nobleman and made a good marriage and rich inheritance with many estates spreading from Normandy to northern England, as well as a principality of his own in southern Scotland. When David finally came to the Scottish throne in 1124 he faced a long and bitter struggle against rivals for the crown. David then set out to modernise the kingdom modelled along European lines. He continued to add to his kingdom including parts of Yorkshire and Lancaster, tipping the balance of power in Britain firmly in facour of the Scotts.

Author : Simon Frith,Martin Cloonan,John Williamson
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 277 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2023-09-29
Category : History
ISBN : 9781000961010

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Made in Scotland by Simon Frith,Martin Cloonan,John Williamson Pdf

Made in Scotland: Studies in Popular Music serves as a comprehensive and thorough introduction to the history, politics, culture, and musicology of twentieth- and twenty-first-century popular music in Scotland. The volume consists of essays by local experts and leading scholars in Scottish music and culture, and covers the major figures, styles, and social contexts of popular music in Scotland. Each essay provides adequate context so readers understand why the figure or genre under discussion is of lasting significance. The book includes a general introduction to Scottish popular music, followed by essays organized into three thematic sections: Histories, Politics and Policies, and Futures and Imaginings. Examining music as cultural expression in a country that is both a nation and a region within a larger state, this volume uses popular music to analyse Scottishness, independence, and diversity and offers new insights into the complexity of cultural identity, the power of historical imagination, and the effects of power structures in music. It is a vital read for scholars and students interested in how popular music interacts with and shapes such issues both within and beyond the borders of Scotland.

Author : John Macculloch
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 512 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1824
Category : Hebrides (Scotland)
ISBN : STANFORD:36105014942002

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The Highlands and Western Isles of Scotland by John Macculloch Pdf

Author : Michael Lynch
Publisher : Random House
Page : 544 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2011-07-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9781446475638

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Scotland by Michael Lynch Pdf

From Bannockburn and Robert the Bruce to the union of the crowns and Mary, Queen of Scots; from the Reformation and John Knox, to the Enlightenment and the Highland Clearances, and right up to devolution, Scotland is the definitive history of a country that has experienced centuries of dramatic change. Michael Lynch, named as 'one of the most influential historians in Scotland of the last thirty years', has penned an extraordinary one-volume history of the country that spans twenty centuries, from the Picts to the present day. Thrilling, comprehensive, provocative and timely, Scotland is a monumental work of scholarship.

Author : Sara Sheridan
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2021-03-04
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1849173087

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Where are the Women? by Sara Sheridan Pdf

Can you imagine a different Scotland, a Scotland where women are commemorated in statues and streets and buildings - even in the hills and valleys? This is a guidebook to that alternative nation, where the cave on Staffa is named after Malvina rather than Fingal, and Arthur's Seat isn't Arthur's, it belongs to St Triduana. Where you arrive into Dundee at Slessor Station and the Victorian monument on Stirling's Abbey Hill interprets national identity not as a male warrior but through the women who ran hospitals during the First World War. The West Highland Way ends at Fort Mary. The Old Lady of Hoy is a prominent Orkney landmark. And the plinths in central Glasgow proudly display statues of suffragettes. In this 'imagined atlas' fictional streets, buildings, statues and monuments are dedicated to real women, telling their often untold or unknown stories.For most of recorded history, women have been sidelined, if not silenced, by men who named the built environment after themselves. Now is the time to look unflinchingly at Scotland's heritage and bring those women who have been ignored to light. Sara Sheridan explores beyond the traditional male-dominated histories to reveal a new picture of Scotland's history and heritage.

Author : Stephen W. Brown
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 688 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2011-11-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780748628964

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Edinburgh History of the Book in Scotland, Volume 2: Enlightenment and Expansion 1707-1800 by Stephen W. Brown Pdf

Studies the book trade during the age of Fergusson and BurnsOver 40 leading scholars come together in this volume to scrutinise the development and impact of printing, binding, bookselling, libraries, textbooks, distribution and international trade, copyright, piracy, literacy, music publication, women readers, children's books and cookery books.The 18th century saw Scotland become a global leader in publishing, both through landmark challenges to the early copyright legislation and through the development of intricate overseas markets that extended across Europe, Asia and the Americas. Scots in Edinburgh, Glasgow, London, Dublin and Philadelphia amassed fortunes while bringing to international markets classics in medicine and economics by Scottish authors, as well as such enduring works of reference as the Encyclopaedia Britannica. Entrepreneurship and a vigorous sense of nationalism brought Scotland from financial destitution at the time of the 1707 Union to extraordinary wealth by the 1790s. Publishing was one of the country's elite new industries.

Author : Hugh Montgomery-Massingberd,Christopher Simon Sykes
Publisher : Laurence King Publishing
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Architecture, Domestic
ISBN : 9781856691062

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Great Houses of Scotland by Hugh Montgomery-Massingberd,Christopher Simon Sykes Pdf

26 houses photographed in colour and accompanied by informative text about their history.