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Category : Scotland
Languages : en
Pages : 730
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The New Staistical Account of Scotland: pt.1-2 Iverness, Ross and Cromarty
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Category : Scotland
Languages : en
Pages : 730
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Languages : en
Pages : 730
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The New Statistical Account of Scotland: Inverness, Ross and Cromarty
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Category : Scotland
Languages : en
Pages : 1050
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Category : Scotland
Languages : en
Pages : 1050
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The New Staistical Account of Scotland: pt.1-2 Iverness, Ross and Cromarty
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Category : Scotland
Languages : en
Pages : 696
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Languages : en
Pages : 696
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Rough and Plenty
Author: Raymond A. Rogers
Publisher: Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press
ISBN: 1771124385
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 357
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As a commercial fisher in Nova Scotia in the early 1990s, Raymond Rogers experienced the collapse of Canada’s East Coast fishery first-hand. Afterward, while preparing to leave the province to find work elsewhere, Rogers noticed a lone gravestone across the road from his home in Shelburne County that commemorates the life of Donald McDonald, a crofter from the Isle of Lewis in Scotland, who “departed this life” in 1881. Rogers wondered if there might be a connection between the necessity of his own departure, and McDonald’s lonely presence on the nearby Atlantic shore, linking them as members of local communities that were displaced in the name of “economic progress.” In Rough and Plenty: A Memorial, Rogers explores the parallel processes of dispossession suffered by nineteenth-century Scottish crofters expelled from their ancestral lands during the Highland Clearances, and by the marginalization of coastal fishing communities in Nova Scotia. The book aims to memorialize local ways of life that were destroyed by the forces of industrial production, as well as to convey the experience of dislocation using first-hand narratives, recent and historical. The author makes the case that in a world where capital abhors all communities but itself, remembering becomes a form of advocacy that can challenge dominant structures.
Publisher: Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press
ISBN: 1771124385
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 357
Book Description
As a commercial fisher in Nova Scotia in the early 1990s, Raymond Rogers experienced the collapse of Canada’s East Coast fishery first-hand. Afterward, while preparing to leave the province to find work elsewhere, Rogers noticed a lone gravestone across the road from his home in Shelburne County that commemorates the life of Donald McDonald, a crofter from the Isle of Lewis in Scotland, who “departed this life” in 1881. Rogers wondered if there might be a connection between the necessity of his own departure, and McDonald’s lonely presence on the nearby Atlantic shore, linking them as members of local communities that were displaced in the name of “economic progress.” In Rough and Plenty: A Memorial, Rogers explores the parallel processes of dispossession suffered by nineteenth-century Scottish crofters expelled from their ancestral lands during the Highland Clearances, and by the marginalization of coastal fishing communities in Nova Scotia. The book aims to memorialize local ways of life that were destroyed by the forces of industrial production, as well as to convey the experience of dislocation using first-hand narratives, recent and historical. The author makes the case that in a world where capital abhors all communities but itself, remembering becomes a form of advocacy that can challenge dominant structures.
The Spectator
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Languages : en
Pages : 644
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Languages : en
Pages : 644
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Supplement to the Catalogue of the Edinburgh Select Subscription Library
Author: James J. Hunter
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Languages : en
Pages : 102
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Pages : 102
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Landscapes of the Learned
Author: Elizabeth FitzPatrick
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0192855743
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Languages : en
Pages : 374
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Gaelic literati were an elite and influential group in the social hierarchy of Irish lordships between c. 1300 and 1600. From their estates, they served Gaelic and Old English ruling families in the arts of history, law, medicine, and poetry. They farmed, kept guest-houses, conducted schools, and maintained networks of learning. In other capacities, they were involved in political assemblies and memorializing dynastic histories in landscape. This book presents a framework for identifying and interpreting the settings and built heritages of their estates in lordship borderscapes. It shows that a more textured definition of what this learned class represented can be achieved through the material record of the buildings and monuments they used, and where their lands were positioned in the political map. Where literati lived and worked are conceived as expressions of their intellectual and political cultures. Mediated by case studies of the landscapes of their estates, dwellings, and schools, the methodology is predominantly field based, using archaeological investigation and topographic and spatial analyses, and drawing on historical and literary texts, place-names and lore in referencing named people to places. More widely, the study contributes a landscape perspective to the growing body of work on autochthonous intellectual culture and the exercise of power by ruling families in late medieval and early modern northern European societies.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0192855743
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Languages : en
Pages : 374
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Gaelic literati were an elite and influential group in the social hierarchy of Irish lordships between c. 1300 and 1600. From their estates, they served Gaelic and Old English ruling families in the arts of history, law, medicine, and poetry. They farmed, kept guest-houses, conducted schools, and maintained networks of learning. In other capacities, they were involved in political assemblies and memorializing dynastic histories in landscape. This book presents a framework for identifying and interpreting the settings and built heritages of their estates in lordship borderscapes. It shows that a more textured definition of what this learned class represented can be achieved through the material record of the buildings and monuments they used, and where their lands were positioned in the political map. Where literati lived and worked are conceived as expressions of their intellectual and political cultures. Mediated by case studies of the landscapes of their estates, dwellings, and schools, the methodology is predominantly field based, using archaeological investigation and topographic and spatial analyses, and drawing on historical and literary texts, place-names and lore in referencing named people to places. More widely, the study contributes a landscape perspective to the growing body of work on autochthonous intellectual culture and the exercise of power by ruling families in late medieval and early modern northern European societies.
The penny cyclopædia [ed. by G. Long].
Author: Society for the diffusion of useful knowledge
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Languages : en
Pages : 808
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Languages : en
Pages : 808
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The Imperial Gazetteer of Scotland; Or, Dictionary of Scottish Topography, Compiled from the Most Recent Authorities, and Forming a Complete Body of Scottish Geography, Physical, Statistical, and Historical
Author: John Marius Wilson
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Category : Scotland
Languages : en
Pages : 966
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Category : Scotland
Languages : en
Pages : 966
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A catalogue of the new books and new engravings published in Great Britain in 1847. Repr. with additions from 'Bent's literary advertiser'.
Author: William Bent
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Languages : en
Pages : 24
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Languages : en
Pages : 24
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