Author: Kenneth Macleay (R.S.A.)
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Languages : en
Pages : 192
Book Description
Highlanders of Scotland: being a series of portraits, with biographical and historical notices, illustrative of the principal clans and followings, and the retainers of the royal household at Balmoral, in the reign of Her Majesty Queen Victoria ... Reduced from the original lithographs, etc
Author: Kenneth Macleay (R.S.A.)
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 192
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 192
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Scottish Highlanders
Author: Charles MacKinnon
Publisher: Barnes & Noble Publishing
ISBN: 9780880299503
Category : Clans
Languages : en
Pages : 278
Book Description
Publisher: Barnes & Noble Publishing
ISBN: 9780880299503
Category : Clans
Languages : en
Pages : 278
Book Description
Highlanders
Author: James MacKillop
Publisher: McFarland
ISBN: 1476693129
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 283
Book Description
Rebellion was recurrent in the Highlands because the Gaels (Scoti) were an often-oppressed indigenous minority in the nation, Scotland, to which they gave their name. They spoke a language, Gaelic, few outsiders would learn, and had their own family and social system, the clans. Warfare was bloody, culminating in the catastrophe of Culloden Moor during the doomed quest to restore the Stuart kingship to all of Britain. Economic hardship, including the near-genocidal Clearances, in which tenant farmers were replaced with sheep, drove the Gaels from the glens and islands, so that most today live in the diaspora, including millions in North America. Although the Gaels lack a single genetic identity, they clearly draw from distinct roots in the Irish, Norse and Picts. Despite their hardship, the Gaels are also presented in romantic portrayals by the artistic elite of other nations. This book offers ways in which the reader might find roots and ancestry in unfamiliar terrain. Chapters discuss the landscape and language of the Highlanders, the rise of clans, feuds and invasions, and eventual emigration.
Publisher: McFarland
ISBN: 1476693129
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 283
Book Description
Rebellion was recurrent in the Highlands because the Gaels (Scoti) were an often-oppressed indigenous minority in the nation, Scotland, to which they gave their name. They spoke a language, Gaelic, few outsiders would learn, and had their own family and social system, the clans. Warfare was bloody, culminating in the catastrophe of Culloden Moor during the doomed quest to restore the Stuart kingship to all of Britain. Economic hardship, including the near-genocidal Clearances, in which tenant farmers were replaced with sheep, drove the Gaels from the glens and islands, so that most today live in the diaspora, including millions in North America. Although the Gaels lack a single genetic identity, they clearly draw from distinct roots in the Irish, Norse and Picts. Despite their hardship, the Gaels are also presented in romantic portrayals by the artistic elite of other nations. This book offers ways in which the reader might find roots and ancestry in unfamiliar terrain. Chapters discuss the landscape and language of the Highlanders, the rise of clans, feuds and invasions, and eventual emigration.
A description of the picture of Prince Charles Edward and the Highlanders entering Edinburgh after the Battle of Preston. Painted by Thomas Duncan ... To be engraved, etc
Author: Frederick BACON
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 30
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 30
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Highlander's Portrait
Author: C. A. Szarek
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781941151174
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 228
Book Description
Ashlyn collides with a hottie that looks just like an old portrait she bought in an antique shop in Inverness. Eoin time travels from the eighteenth century. He didn't count on a bonnie lass from the twenty-first century. Her passion brings out desires in Eoin that make him want to put aside his duty and stake a claim of his own...on her.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781941151174
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 228
Book Description
Ashlyn collides with a hottie that looks just like an old portrait she bought in an antique shop in Inverness. Eoin time travels from the eighteenth century. He didn't count on a bonnie lass from the twenty-first century. Her passion brings out desires in Eoin that make him want to put aside his duty and stake a claim of his own...on her.
White People, Indians, and Highlanders
Author: Colin G. Calloway
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199887640
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 391
Book Description
In nineteenth century paintings, the proud Indian warrior and the Scottish Highland chief appear in similar ways--colorful and wild, righteous and warlike, the last of their kind. Earlier accounts depict both as barbarians, lacking in culture and in need of civilization. By the nineteenth century, intermarriage and cultural contact between the two--described during the Seven Years' War as cousins--was such that Cree, Mohawk, Cherokee, and Salish were often spoken with Gaelic accents. In this imaginative work of imperial and tribal history, Colin Calloway examines why these two seemingly wildly disparate groups appear to have so much in common. Both Highland clans and Native American societies underwent parallel experiences on the peripheries of Britain's empire, and often encountered one another on the frontier. Indeed, Highlanders and American Indians fought, traded, and lived together. Both groups were treated as tribal peoples--remnants of a barbaric past--and eventually forced from their ancestral lands as their traditional food sources--cattle in the Highlands and bison on the Great Plains--were decimated to make way for livestock farming. In a familiar pattern, the cultures that conquered them would later romanticize the very ways of life they had destroyed. White People, Indians, and Highlanders illustrates how these groups alternately resisted and accommodated the cultural and economic assault of colonialism, before their eventual dispossession during the Highland Clearances and Indian Removals. What emerges is a finely-drawn portrait of how indigenous peoples with their own rich identities experienced cultural change, economic transformation, and demographic dislocation amidst the growing power of the British and American empires.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199887640
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 391
Book Description
In nineteenth century paintings, the proud Indian warrior and the Scottish Highland chief appear in similar ways--colorful and wild, righteous and warlike, the last of their kind. Earlier accounts depict both as barbarians, lacking in culture and in need of civilization. By the nineteenth century, intermarriage and cultural contact between the two--described during the Seven Years' War as cousins--was such that Cree, Mohawk, Cherokee, and Salish were often spoken with Gaelic accents. In this imaginative work of imperial and tribal history, Colin Calloway examines why these two seemingly wildly disparate groups appear to have so much in common. Both Highland clans and Native American societies underwent parallel experiences on the peripheries of Britain's empire, and often encountered one another on the frontier. Indeed, Highlanders and American Indians fought, traded, and lived together. Both groups were treated as tribal peoples--remnants of a barbaric past--and eventually forced from their ancestral lands as their traditional food sources--cattle in the Highlands and bison on the Great Plains--were decimated to make way for livestock farming. In a familiar pattern, the cultures that conquered them would later romanticize the very ways of life they had destroyed. White People, Indians, and Highlanders illustrates how these groups alternately resisted and accommodated the cultural and economic assault of colonialism, before their eventual dispossession during the Highland Clearances and Indian Removals. What emerges is a finely-drawn portrait of how indigenous peoples with their own rich identities experienced cultural change, economic transformation, and demographic dislocation amidst the growing power of the British and American empires.
The Scotish Gaël, Or, Celtic Manners
Author: James Logan
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Category : Celts
Languages : en
Pages : 540
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Category : Celts
Languages : en
Pages : 540
Book Description
The History of the 91st Argyllshire Highlanders
Author: R. P. Dunn-Pattison
Publisher:
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Category : Argyllshire (Scotland)
Languages : en
Pages : 506
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Category : Argyllshire (Scotland)
Languages : en
Pages : 506
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A History of the Scottish Highlands
Author: Thomas Maclauchlan
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Category : Clans
Languages : en
Pages : 1196
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Publisher:
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Category : Clans
Languages : en
Pages : 1196
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Poole's Index to Periodical Literature
Author: William Frederick Poole
Publisher:
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Category : Periodicals
Languages : en
Pages : 510
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Periodicals
Languages : en
Pages : 510
Book Description