Author: Theodore Charles Ferdinand Brotchie
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Category : Scotland
Languages : en
Pages : 218

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Author: Theodore Charles Ferdinand Brotchie
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Category : Scotland
Languages : en
Pages : 208

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Author: University of Aberdeen. Library
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 498

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Author: Katherine Haldane Grenier
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1351878662
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 268

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In the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, legions of English citizens headed north. Why and how did Scotland, once avoided by travelers, become a popular site for English tourists? In Tourism and Identity in Scotland, 1770-1914, Katherine Haldane Grenier uses published and unpublished travel accounts, guidebooks, and the popular press to examine the evolution of the idea of Scotland. Though her primary subject is the cultural significance of Scotland for English tourists, in demonstrating how this region came to occupy a central role in the Victorian imagination, Grenier also sheds light on middle-class popular culture, including anxieties over industrialization, urbanization, and political change; attitudes towards nature; nostalgia for the past; and racial and gender constructions of the "other." Late eighteenth-century visitors to Scotland may have lauded the momentum of modernization in Scotland, but as the pace of economic, social, and political transformations intensified in England during the nineteenth century, English tourists came to imagine their northern neighbor as a place immune to change. Grenier analyzes the rhetoric of tourism that allowed visitors to adopt a false view of Scotland as untouched by the several transformations of the nineteenth century, making journeys there antidotes to the uneasiness of modern life. While this view was pervasive in Victorian society and culture, and deeply marked the modern Scottish national identity, Grenier demonstrates that it was not hegemonic. Rather, the variety of ways that Scotland and the Scots spoke for themselves often challenged tourists' expectations.

Author: Mark Meredith
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Category : Authors, English
Languages : en
Pages : 670

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Contains list of "Fictitious and pseudonymous names."

Author: University of Aberdeen
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Languages : en
Pages : 918

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Author: British Railways
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Languages : en
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Author: Mary Beth Crain
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 0762758325
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 209

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In plenty of time for the holidays, here is a gathering of thirty tales of ghosts, hauntings, and other paranormal happenings purported to have taken place on or around Christmas, or that are otherwise related to this holiday. By a long-time believer in the paranormal who in the introduction tells the story of her own Christmas ghost, Haunted Christmas includes stories such as: HAUNTED BETHLEHEM—Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, is famous for haunted locales such as the Hotel Bethlehem, the first house built in the town, in 1741. There, guests have come to expect visits from several spirits. Predictably, things heat up at Christmas—after all, this is Bethlehem. THE DEATH COACH OF CHRISTMAS—One Christmas Eve in Ireland many years ago, young Nora Mahoney was returning from the bogs when an invisible something suddenly rushed past her with the sound of grinding wheels and thundering horses’ hooves. Had Nora encountered the “death coach” of Irish legend?

Author: Robert N. Forsythe
Publisher: Amberley Publishing Limited
ISBN: 1445624273
Category : Photography
Languages : en
Pages : 292

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This is a detailed and beautifully illustrated book which looks at how goods have travelled to the Isles over the years.

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Languages : en
Pages : 608

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