Author: Richard Manisty Demain Grange
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Clothing and dress
Languages : en
Pages : 184
Book Description
A Short History of the Scottish Dress
Author: Richard Manisty Demain Grange
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Clothing and dress
Languages : en
Pages : 184
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Clothing and dress
Languages : en
Pages : 184
Book Description
Scottish National Dress and Tartan
Author: Stuart Reid
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 0747813302
Category : Design
Languages : en
Pages : 121
Book Description
Tartan is an enormously popular pattern in modern fashion. Beginning as Highland dress, it was originally peculiar to certain areas of Scotland, but is now generally accepted as its national costume: what was once ordinary working clothing of a distinctive local style has been formalised into a ceremonial dress, with tartans once woven according to the fancy of those who wore them becoming fixed with certain patterns prescribed for different families, areas or institutions. This process was not, as is popularly thought, a phenomenon begun by the romantic novels of Sir Walter Scott, but began long before as a reaction to the union with England in 1707. This book traces not only the early stages of that evolution, but the process by which the various tartans became icons of Scottish identity.
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 0747813302
Category : Design
Languages : en
Pages : 121
Book Description
Tartan is an enormously popular pattern in modern fashion. Beginning as Highland dress, it was originally peculiar to certain areas of Scotland, but is now generally accepted as its national costume: what was once ordinary working clothing of a distinctive local style has been formalised into a ceremonial dress, with tartans once woven according to the fancy of those who wore them becoming fixed with certain patterns prescribed for different families, areas or institutions. This process was not, as is popularly thought, a phenomenon begun by the romantic novels of Sir Walter Scott, but began long before as a reaction to the union with England in 1707. This book traces not only the early stages of that evolution, but the process by which the various tartans became icons of Scottish identity.
A Short History of Scotland
Author: Peter Hume Brown
Publisher: Edinburgh ; London : Oliver and Boyd
ISBN:
Category : Scotland
Languages : en
Pages : 652
Book Description
Publisher: Edinburgh ; London : Oliver and Boyd
ISBN:
Category : Scotland
Languages : en
Pages : 652
Book Description
Military History of Scotland
Author: Spiers Edward M. Spiers
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
ISBN: 0748654011
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 857
Book Description
The Scottish soldier has been at war for over 2000 years. Until now, no reference work has attempted to examine this vast heritage of warfare.A Military History of Scotland offers readers an unparalleled insight into the evolution of the Scottish military tradition. This wide-ranging and extensively illustrated volume traces the military history of Scotland from pre-history to the recent conflict in Afghanistan. Edited by three leading military historians, and featuring contributions from thirty scholars, it explores the role of warfare in the emergence of a Scottish kingdom, the forging of a Scottish-British military identity, and the participation of Scots in Britain's imperial and world wars. Eschewing a narrow definition of military history, it investigates the cultural and physical dimensions of Scotland's military past such as Scottish military dress and music, the role of the Scottish soldier in art and literature, Scotland's fortifications and battlefield archaeology, and Scotland's military memorials and museum collections.
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
ISBN: 0748654011
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 857
Book Description
The Scottish soldier has been at war for over 2000 years. Until now, no reference work has attempted to examine this vast heritage of warfare.A Military History of Scotland offers readers an unparalleled insight into the evolution of the Scottish military tradition. This wide-ranging and extensively illustrated volume traces the military history of Scotland from pre-history to the recent conflict in Afghanistan. Edited by three leading military historians, and featuring contributions from thirty scholars, it explores the role of warfare in the emergence of a Scottish kingdom, the forging of a Scottish-British military identity, and the participation of Scots in Britain's imperial and world wars. Eschewing a narrow definition of military history, it investigates the cultural and physical dimensions of Scotland's military past such as Scottish military dress and music, the role of the Scottish soldier in art and literature, Scotland's fortifications and battlefield archaeology, and Scotland's military memorials and museum collections.
A Short History of the Scottish Highlands and Isles
Author: William Cook Mackenzie
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Highlands (Scotland)
Languages : en
Pages : 442
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Highlands (Scotland)
Languages : en
Pages : 442
Book Description
A Short History of Scotland
Author: Andrew Lang
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Scotland
Languages : en
Pages : 332
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Scotland
Languages : en
Pages : 332
Book Description
So You're Going to Wear the Kilt
Author: Joseph Charles Thompson
Publisher: Lang Syne Publishers Ltd
ISBN: 9781852171261
Category : Costume
Languages : en
Pages : 120
Book Description
Publisher: Lang Syne Publishers Ltd
ISBN: 9781852171261
Category : Costume
Languages : en
Pages : 120
Book Description
A Short History of Scotland
Author: Robert Laird Mackie
Publisher: CUP Archive
ISBN:
Category : Scotland
Languages : en
Pages : 300
Book Description
Publisher: CUP Archive
ISBN:
Category : Scotland
Languages : en
Pages : 300
Book Description
How the Scots Invented the Modern World
Author: Arthur Herman
Publisher: Crown
ISBN: 0307420957
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 482
Book Description
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.
Publisher: Crown
ISBN: 0307420957
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 482
Book Description
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.
A Short History of Scotland
Author: Charles Sanford Terry
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107681618
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 285
Book Description
This 1921 book by distinguished historian Charles Sanford Terry is a streamlined history of Scotland from the Stone Age onwards.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107681618
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 285
Book Description
This 1921 book by distinguished historian Charles Sanford Terry is a streamlined history of Scotland from the Stone Age onwards.