Author: Sir William Fraser
Publisher:
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Category : Southesk, Earls of
Languages : en
Pages : 386

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Author: William Fraser
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ISBN: 9783337457815
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 372

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Author: Great Britain. Royal Commission on Historical Manuscripts
Publisher:
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Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 1062

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First to ninth reports, 1870-1883/84, with appendices giving reports on unpublished manuscripts in private collections; Appendices after v. [15a] pt. 10 issued without general title.

Author: Großbritannien Royal Commission on Historical Manuscripts
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1066

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Author: Great Britain. Royal Commission on Historical Manuscripts
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Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 346

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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 336

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Author: Great Britain. Parliament. House of Lords
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Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 346

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Author: GEORGE GATFIELD
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 686

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Author: Raymond Lamont-Brown
Publisher: The History Press
ISBN: 0752495100
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 211

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Charts the life of Andrew Carnegie, from Dunfermline bobbin boy to Steel King of America. Carnegie was born in Dunfermline in 1835, but poverty forced the Carnegies to immigrate to Pittsburgh. He worked his way up, and by 1900 Carnegie Steel produced more steel than Great Britain. He was one of the first to call for a 'league of nations'.

Author: Richard A. Marsden
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317159160
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 382

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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.