Author: New York Public Library
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Category : Scotland
Languages : en
Pages : 1256
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A List of Works Relating to Scotland
Author: New York Public Library
Publisher:
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Category : Scotland
Languages : en
Pages : 1256
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Publisher:
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Category : Scotland
Languages : en
Pages : 1256
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Auld Greekie
Author: Iain Gordon Brown
Publisher: Fonthill Media
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 606
Book Description
In the years between about 1810 and 1840, Edinburgh―long and affectionately known as ‘Auld Reekie’―came to think of itself and be widely regarded as something else: the city became ‘Modern Athens’, an epithet later turned to ‘the Athens of the North’. The phrase is very well-known. It is also much used by those who have little understanding of the often confused and contradictory messages hidden within the apparent convenience of a trite or hackneyed term that conceals a myriad of nuanced meanings. This book examines the circumstances underlying a remarkable change in perception of a place and an age. It looks in detail at the ‘when’, the ‘by whom’, the ‘why’, the ‘how’, and the ‘with what consequences’ of this most interesting, if extremely complex, transformation of one city into an image―physical or spiritual, or both―of another. A very broad range of evidence is drawn upon, the story having not only topographical, artistic, and architectural dimensions but also social, cerebral, and philosophical ones. Edinburgh may well have been considered ‘Athenian’. But, in essence, it remained what it had always been. Maybe, however, for a brief period it was really a sort of hybrid: ‘Auld Greekie’.
Publisher: Fonthill Media
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Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 606
Book Description
In the years between about 1810 and 1840, Edinburgh―long and affectionately known as ‘Auld Reekie’―came to think of itself and be widely regarded as something else: the city became ‘Modern Athens’, an epithet later turned to ‘the Athens of the North’. The phrase is very well-known. It is also much used by those who have little understanding of the often confused and contradictory messages hidden within the apparent convenience of a trite or hackneyed term that conceals a myriad of nuanced meanings. This book examines the circumstances underlying a remarkable change in perception of a place and an age. It looks in detail at the ‘when’, the ‘by whom’, the ‘why’, the ‘how’, and the ‘with what consequences’ of this most interesting, if extremely complex, transformation of one city into an image―physical or spiritual, or both―of another. A very broad range of evidence is drawn upon, the story having not only topographical, artistic, and architectural dimensions but also social, cerebral, and philosophical ones. Edinburgh may well have been considered ‘Athenian’. But, in essence, it remained what it had always been. Maybe, however, for a brief period it was really a sort of hybrid: ‘Auld Greekie’.
A Catalogue of Printed Books in European Languages in the Library of the Asiatic Society of Bengal
Author: Asiatic Society of Bengal
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Category : Libraries
Languages : en
Pages : 694
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Publisher:
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Category : Libraries
Languages : en
Pages : 694
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Bulletin of the New York Public Library
Author: New York Public Library
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Category : Bibliography
Languages : en
Pages : 748
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Includes its Report, 1896-1945.
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Category : Bibliography
Languages : en
Pages : 748
Book Description
Includes its Report, 1896-1945.
The Archaeology of the Colonized
Author: Michael Given
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 113420079X
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 208
Book Description
The first book to integrate fully the archaeological study of the landscape with the concerns of colonial and postcolonial history, theory and scholarship, The Archaeology of the Colonized focuses on the experience of the colonized in their landscape setting, looking at case studies from areas of the world not often considered in the postcolonial debate. It offers original, exciting approaches to the growing area of research in archaeology and colonialism. From the pyramids of Old Kingdom Egypt to illicit whisky distilling in nineteenth-century Scotland, and from the Roman roads of Turkey to the threshing floors of Cyprus under British colonial rule, the case studies assist Dr. Given as he uses the archaeological evidence to create a vivid picture of how the lives and identities of farmers, artisans and labourers were affected by colonial systems of oppressive taxation, bureaucracy, forced labour and ideological control. This will be valuable to students, scholars or professionals investigating the relationship between local community and central control in a wide range of historical and archaeological contexts.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 113420079X
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 208
Book Description
The first book to integrate fully the archaeological study of the landscape with the concerns of colonial and postcolonial history, theory and scholarship, The Archaeology of the Colonized focuses on the experience of the colonized in their landscape setting, looking at case studies from areas of the world not often considered in the postcolonial debate. It offers original, exciting approaches to the growing area of research in archaeology and colonialism. From the pyramids of Old Kingdom Egypt to illicit whisky distilling in nineteenth-century Scotland, and from the Roman roads of Turkey to the threshing floors of Cyprus under British colonial rule, the case studies assist Dr. Given as he uses the archaeological evidence to create a vivid picture of how the lives and identities of farmers, artisans and labourers were affected by colonial systems of oppressive taxation, bureaucracy, forced labour and ideological control. This will be valuable to students, scholars or professionals investigating the relationship between local community and central control in a wide range of historical and archaeological contexts.
Journal and Proceedings of the Asiatic Society of Bengal
Author: Asiatic Society (Kolkata, India)
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Category : Asia
Languages : en
Pages : 514
Book Description
Includes indexes to Numismatic supplements.
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Category : Asia
Languages : en
Pages : 514
Book Description
Includes indexes to Numismatic supplements.
Black's Picturesque Tourist of Scotland
Author: Adam and Charles Black (Firm)
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Category : Scotland
Languages : en
Pages : 416
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Publisher:
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Category : Scotland
Languages : en
Pages : 416
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Guide to British Topographical Prints
Author: Ronald Russell
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Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 232
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Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 232
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The National Union Catalog, Pre-1956 Imprints
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Category : Union catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 712
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Category : Union catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 712
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Catalogue of Ancient and Modern Books
Author: Sotheran
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 456
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Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 456
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