Author: George Chalmers
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Category : Scotland
Languages : en
Pages : 524
Book Description
Caledonia, Or, A Historical and Topographical Account of North Britain from the Most Ancient to the Present Times
Author: George Chalmers
Publisher:
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Category : Scotland
Languages : en
Pages : 524
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : Scotland
Languages : en
Pages : 524
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Caledonia
Author: George Chalmers
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Category : Names, Geographical
Languages : en
Pages : 464
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Names, Geographical
Languages : en
Pages : 464
Book Description
Caledonia, Or an Account, Historical and Topographical, of North Britain; from the Most Ancient to the Present Times, with a Dicitionary of Places, Chrorographical and Philological
Author: George Chalmers
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1030
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1030
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Caledonia, Or an Account, Historical and Topographic, of North Britain, from the Most Ancient to the Present Times
Author: George Chalmers
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1022
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1022
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Bulletin of the American Geographical Society
Author: American Geographical Society of New York
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Category : Electronic journals
Languages : en
Pages : 1178
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Category : Electronic journals
Languages : en
Pages : 1178
Book Description
Nature Contested
Author: Smout T. C. Smout
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
ISBN: 1474472710
Category : NATURE
Languages : en
Pages : 210
Book Description
This book is about how we have treated nature in some of the most valued landscapes in Europe. Combining social and cultural history with ecology and geography, T.C. Smout has written an environmental history that is both profound and accessible.The Highlands and Lowlands of Scotland, the Lake District and the northern moors and plains of England form a natural region. The crags, moorland, woods and wetlands have been both treasured for their beauty and biodiversity and reviled as unproductive deserts to be improved and reclaimed. The fields have been made more fertile for production and the waters tapped for industrial use, but at a certain cost. The contest between two views of nature - conservation versus development; use versus delight - is at the centre of the book. The author begins by taking a hard look at our encounters with the natural world. He shows how the Scots and the northern English never shared the southerner's view of their environment as intimidating, and describes how conflict between using and enjoying the land gradually arose and gave birth to modern conservation ideas. He reveals how the history of the woods - especially the 'Great Wood of Caledon' - is quite different from popular myth, and examines the history and fate of the soil and the fields; of the rivers, lakes and lochs; of the hills and mountains; and of the modern quarrel over the countryside.'By the end,' the author writes, 'I hope to have presented on my theatre a dramatic tale that tells us a fair amount not only of northern Britain, but something about the globe and the European west as a whole over the last four hundred years.'
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
ISBN: 1474472710
Category : NATURE
Languages : en
Pages : 210
Book Description
This book is about how we have treated nature in some of the most valued landscapes in Europe. Combining social and cultural history with ecology and geography, T.C. Smout has written an environmental history that is both profound and accessible.The Highlands and Lowlands of Scotland, the Lake District and the northern moors and plains of England form a natural region. The crags, moorland, woods and wetlands have been both treasured for their beauty and biodiversity and reviled as unproductive deserts to be improved and reclaimed. The fields have been made more fertile for production and the waters tapped for industrial use, but at a certain cost. The contest between two views of nature - conservation versus development; use versus delight - is at the centre of the book. The author begins by taking a hard look at our encounters with the natural world. He shows how the Scots and the northern English never shared the southerner's view of their environment as intimidating, and describes how conflict between using and enjoying the land gradually arose and gave birth to modern conservation ideas. He reveals how the history of the woods - especially the 'Great Wood of Caledon' - is quite different from popular myth, and examines the history and fate of the soil and the fields; of the rivers, lakes and lochs; of the hills and mountains; and of the modern quarrel over the countryside.'By the end,' the author writes, 'I hope to have presented on my theatre a dramatic tale that tells us a fair amount not only of northern Britain, but something about the globe and the European west as a whole over the last four hundred years.'
Übersicht über die im Jahre ... auf dem Gebiete der englischen Philologie erschienenen Bücher, Schriften und Aufsätze
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Category : English philology
Languages : en
Pages : 350
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Category : English philology
Languages : en
Pages : 350
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Anglia
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Category : Comparative linguistics
Languages : en
Pages : 720
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Category : Comparative linguistics
Languages : en
Pages : 720
Book Description
Arthur in the Celtic Languages
Author: Ceridwen Lloyd-Morgan
Publisher: University of Wales Press
ISBN: 1786833441
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 434
Book Description
• Arthur in the Celtic Languages is a reliable up-to-date introduction to the field. • It is the only book covering Arthurian literature and traditions in the Celtic languages (Welsh, Cornish, Breton, Irish, Scottish Gaelic) • This book covers medieval and modern literatures. • It also discusses folklore, ballads and other popular traditions as well as place-names.
Publisher: University of Wales Press
ISBN: 1786833441
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 434
Book Description
• Arthur in the Celtic Languages is a reliable up-to-date introduction to the field. • It is the only book covering Arthurian literature and traditions in the Celtic languages (Welsh, Cornish, Breton, Irish, Scottish Gaelic) • This book covers medieval and modern literatures. • It also discusses folklore, ballads and other popular traditions as well as place-names.
Union and Empire
Author: Allan I. Macinnes
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521850797
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 317
Book Description
A major interpretation of the 1707 Act of Union and the making of the United Kingdom.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521850797
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 317
Book Description
A major interpretation of the 1707 Act of Union and the making of the United Kingdom.