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| Author | : John N. Gray |
| Publisher | : Berghahn Books |
| Total Pages | : 288 |
| Release | : 2000 |
| Genre | : Social Science |
| ISBN | : 9781571817396 |
Download At Home in the Hills Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
To most outsiders, the hills of the Scottish Borders are a bleak and foreboding space - usually made to represent the stigmatized Other, Ad Finis, by the centers of power in Edinburgh, London, and Brussels. At a time when globalization seems to threaten our sense of place, people of the Scottish borderlands provide a vivid case study of how the being-in-place is central to the sense of self and identity. Since the end of the thirteenth century, people living in the Scottish Border hills have engaged in armed raiding on the frontier with England, developed capitalist sheep farming in the newly united kingdom of Great Britain, and are struggling to maintain their family farms in one of the marginal agricultural rural regions of the European Community. Throughout their history, sheep farmers living in these hills have established an abiding sense of place in which family and farm have become refractions of each other. Adopting a phenomenological perspective, this book concentrates on the contemporary farming practices - shepherding, selling lambs and rams at auctions - as well as family and class relations through which hill sheep fuse people, place, and way of life to create this sense of being-at-home in the hills.
| Author | : Leith Davis |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 258 |
| Release | : 2004-06-24 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 1139454137 |
Download Scotland and the Borders of Romanticism Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Originally published in 2004, Scotland and the Borders of Romanticism is a collection of critical essays devoted to Scottish writing between 1745 and 1830 - a key period marking the contested divide between Scottish Enlightenment and Romanticism in British literary history. Essays in the volume, by leading scholars from Scotland, England, Canada and the USA, address a range of major figures and topics, among them Hume and the Romantic imagination, Burns's poetry, the Scottish song and ballad revivals, gender and national tradition, the prose fiction of Walter Scott and James Hogg, the national theatre of Joanna Baillie, the Romantic varieties of historicism and antiquarianism, Romantic Orientalism, and Scotland as a site of English cultural fantasies. The essays undertake a collective rethinking of the national and period categories that have structured British literary history, by examining the relations between the concepts of Enlightenment and Romanticism as well as between Scottish and English writing.
| Author | : A. J. Youngson |
| Publisher | : Companion Guides |
| Total Pages | : 468 |
| Release | : 2001 |
| Genre | : Architecture |
| ISBN | : 9781900639385 |
Download The Companion Guide to Edinburgh and the Borders Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Long overdue: Revised, updated, freshly-illustrated Edinburgh joins the Companion Guide series, informative on Edinburgh's - and Scotland's - past and present. Edinburgh is one of Europe's most elegant and cosmopolitan cities, the Old Town rebuilt on the medieval street plan after being burned down by the English in 1544, and the eighteenth-century classical New Town more extensive thananything else of its kind in Europe. Edinburgh was the capital of an independent kingdom for more than two hundred and fifty years, and it has the air of a capital, with buildings where kings were born or where some of their moreprominent subjects were assassinated, streets once trodden by Mary Queen of Scots and Bonnie Prince Charlie, and a rich artistic life that comes into exhilarating full flower in August with the Edinburgh Festival. Edinburgh is also the gateway to some of the most spectacularly beautiful country in Britain: lying southward is the romantic landscape of the Borders, where Alexander Youngson is an admirable guide to the ruined abbeys, the castles thathave withstood countless sieges, and the great houses still owned by families 'that the Flood could not wash away'. A.J. YOUNGSON is former chairman of the Fine Art Commission for Scotland.
| Author | : Mary W. Craig |
| Publisher | : Luath Press Ltd |
| Total Pages | : 239 |
| Release | : 2020-11-06 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 1910022268 |
Download Borders Witch Hunt Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
The years between 1600 and 1700 were a period of war, famine, plague and religious upheaval in Scotland.A time when ordinary women, and men, of the Scottish Borders who fell under the suspicion of the Kirk would face interrogation and torture.A time when fear of Auld Nick turned the world upside down and the cry of witch would almost always lead to the rope and the flame.Mary Craig explores this tremulous period of Scottish history and examines the causes and effects of the 17th century witchcraft trials and executions in the Scottish Borders.
| Author | : Alistair Moffat |
| Publisher | : Birlinn |
| Total Pages | : 686 |
| Release | : 2011-08-12 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 0857901141 |
Download The Borders Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
In this acclaimed book, Alistair Moffat tells the story of a part of Scotland that has played a huge role in the nation's history and moved poets, painters and writers as well as ordinary people for hundreds of years. The hunter-gatherers who first penetrated the virgin interior, the Celtic warlords, the Romans, the Northumbrians and the Reivers, who dominated the Anglo-Scottish borderlands for over 300 years, have all had their part to play in the constantly evolving life of the area. It is the people of a place that make its history and Alistair Moffat's book is a testament to those who have made the Borders their home, and who have created the traditions, myths and romance that define it so strongly.
| Author | : Clive Kristen |
| Publisher | : Andrews UK Limited |
| Total Pages | : 139 |
| Release | : 2014-06-10 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 1781662460 |
Download Ghost Trails of Edinburgh and the Borders Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Popular TV ghosthunter, Clive Kristen, takes the reader in search of grueseome events across the border in Scotland. The stories are woven into their historical context and take the reader to spooktacular places. From grisly murders to wronged women to unfinished business, south-east Scotland has a spook for the story.
| Author | : Ian Crofton |
| Publisher | : Birlinn |
| Total Pages | : 351 |
| Release | : 2014-10-01 |
| Genre | : Travel |
| ISBN | : 0857908014 |
Download Walking the Border Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
In 2013 Ian Crofton undertook a journey he had been pondering for years: a walk along the Border between Scotland and England. It would be an exploration both of his own identity - not quite Scottish, not quite English - and of a largely unexplored stretch of country. Apart from the line marked on the map, the route is not obvious. For much of its length the Border either follows the middle of various rivers, or traces the Southern Upland watershed, an area of bleak moorland and dense conifer plantations. During the course of his walk, Ian Crofton investigates the history, literature and legend of the Border. He talks to a range of people he comes across - farmers, landladies, bar staff, anglers, labourers, shepherds, shopkeepers - to find out what they make of the Border, if anything at all. Such conversations lead to a consideration of the very nature of borders. Do they provide a necessary defence of the nationstate? Or are they, in this day and age, an affront to global justice? Walking the Border is in the best traditions of travel writing, combining vivid description with human insight, the whole spiced with a wry sense of the absurdity and necessity of both inward and outward journeys.
| Author | : Paul Boobyer |
| Publisher | : Cicerone Press Limited |
| Total Pages | : 96 |
| Release | : 2019-02-15 |
| Genre | : Sports & Recreation |
| ISBN | : 1783627360 |
Download The Borders Abbeys Way Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
The Borders Abbeys Way links four of Britain's grandest ruined medieval abbeys in the central Scottish Borders. The route is a well waymarked, 68-mile (109km) circuit and is one of Scotland's Great Trails. The route which begins and ends in Tweedbank, is described clockwise over 6 stages averaging 11.3 miles per day. Relatively flat, it is suitable for people with a moderate level of fitness. The Way can be walked at any time of year and can be reached within an hour by train from the centre of Edinburgh. This guidebook provides a comprehensive description of the route, which passes through the towns of Melrose, Kelso, Jedburgh, Hawick and Selkirk and the villages of Denholm and Newton St Boswells. In addition to clear route description and OS 1:50,000 mapping extracts, the guidebook also includes information about the history of the Borders abbeys, the ever-intriguing Borders reivers, and the region's geology and agriculture. Invaluable practical information relating to accommodation, transport, mapping and public access is also included.
| Author | : Roger Smith |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 131 |
| Release | : 1983 |
| Genre | : Borders (Scotland) |
| ISBN | : 9780861900862 |
Download A Visitor's Guide to the Scottish Borders and Edinburgh Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
| Author | : Walter Scott |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 332 |
| Release | : 1814 |
| Genre | : Borders of England |
| ISBN | : |
Download The Border Antiquities of England and Scotland Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
