Author: Morton, Earls of
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Category : Family archives
Languages : en
Pages : 328

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Author: Institute of Accountants and Actuaries in Glasgow. Library
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 120

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Author: Richard A. Marsden
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317159152
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 398

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Today, Scotland's history is frequently associated with the clarion call of political nationalism. However, in the nineteenth century the influence of history on Scottish national identity was far more ambiguous. How, then, did ideas about the past shape Scottish identity in a period when union with England was all but unquestioned? The activities of the antiquary Cosmo Innes (1798-1874) help us to address this question. Innes was a prolific editor of medieval and early modern documents relating to Scotland's parliament, legal system, burghs, universities, aristocratic families and pre-Reformation church. Yet unlike scholars today, he saw that editorial role in interventionist terms. His source editions were artificial constructs that powerfully articulated his worldview and agendas: emphasising Enlightenment-inspired narratives of social progress and institutional development. At the same time they used manuscript facsimiles and images of medieval architecture to foreground a romantic concern for the texture of past lives. Innes operated within an elite associational culture which gave him access to the leading intellectuals and politicians of the day. His representations of Scottish history therefore had significant influence and were put to work as commentaries on some of the major debates which exorcised Scotland's intelligentsia across the middle decades of the century. This analysis of Innes's work with sources, set within the intellectual context of the time and against the antiquarian activities of his contemporaries, provides a window onto the ways in which the 'national past' was perceived in Scotland during the nineteenth century. This allows us to explore how historical thinkers negotiated the apparent dichotomies between Enlightenment and Romanticism, whilst at the same time enabling a re-examination of prevailing assumptions about Scotland's supposed failure to maintain a viable national consciousness in the later 1800s.

Author:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 792

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Author: Carl Robert Osten-Sacken
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Category : Beetles
Languages : en
Pages : 782

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Author: Smithsonian Institution
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Category : Mollusks
Languages : en
Pages : 928

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Author: Anonymous
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 338230774X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 270

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Reprint of the original. The publishing house Anatiposi publishes historical books as reprints. Due to their age, these books may have missing pages or inferior quality. Our aim is to preserve these books and make them available to the public so that they do not get lost.

Author: Carl Robert Osten-Sacken
Publisher:
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Category : Diptera
Languages : en
Pages : 794

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Author:
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Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 786

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Author: Detroit Public Library
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 916

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