Thomas Keith's Scotland
Author | : John Hannavy |
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Total Pages | : 104 |
Release | : 1981 |
Genre | : History |
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Author | : John Hannavy |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 104 |
Release | : 1981 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
Author | : John Hannavy |
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Total Pages | : |
Release | : 1981 |
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Author | : Edinburgh (Scotland). Libraries and Museums Committee |
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Total Pages | : 40 |
Release | : 1972 |
Genre | : Calotype |
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Author | : Roddy Simpson |
Publisher | : Edinburgh University Press |
Total Pages | : 225 |
Release | : 2012-09-03 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 074865464X |
This is the first book to provide a full and coherent introduction to the photography of Victorian Scotland. The material has been structured and the topics organised, with appropriate illustrations, as both a readable narrative and a foundation text for
Author | : Edinburgh (Scotland). Libraries and Museums Committee |
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Total Pages | : 16 |
Release | : 1966 |
Genre | : Photographers |
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Author | : John Bulloch |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 242 |
Release | : 1894 |
Genre | : Genealogy |
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Author | : Lionel Gossman |
Publisher | : Open Book Publishers |
Total Pages | : 194 |
Release | : 2015-05-25 |
Genre | : Photography |
ISBN | : 1783741279 |
In the wake of Glasgow’s transformation in the nineteenth-century into an industrial powerhouse — the "Second City of the Empire" — a substantial part of the old town of Adam Smith degenerated into an overcrowded and disease-ridden slum. The Old Closes and Streets of Glasgow, Thomas Annan’s photographic record of this central section of the city prior to its demolition in accordance with the City of Glasgow Improvements Act of 1866, is widely recognized as a classic of nineteenth-century documentary photography. Annan’s achievement as a photographer of paintings, portraits and landscapes is less widely known. Thomas Annan of Glasgow: Pioneer of the Documentary Photograph offers a handy, comprehensive and copiously illustrated overview of the full range of the photographer’s work. The book opens with a brief account of the immediate context of Annan’s career as a photographer: the astonishing florescence of photography in Victorian Scotland. Successive chapters deal with each of the main fields of his activity, touching along the way on issues such as the nineteenth-century debate over the status of photography — a mechanical practice or an artistic one? — and the still ongoing controversies surrounding the documentary photograph in particular. While the text itself is intended for the general reader, extensive endnotes amplify particular themes and offer guidance to readers interested in pursuing them further.
Author | : Edinburgh (Scotland). Libraries and Museums Committee |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 1966 |
Genre | : Calotype |
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Author | : Edinburgh (Scotland). Libraries and Museums Department |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 20 |
Release | : 1966 |
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Author | : Kelsey Jackson Williams |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 368 |
Release | : 2020-02-25 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0192537598 |
Traditional accounts of the Scottish Enlightenment present the half-century or so before 1750 as, at best, a not-yet fully realised precursor to the era of Hume and Smith, at worst, a period of superstition and religious bigotry. This is the first book-length study to systematically challenge that notion. Instead, it argues that the era between approximately 1680 and 1745 was a 'First' Scottish Enlightenment, part of the continent-wide phenomenon of early Enlightenment and led by the Jacobites, Episcopalians, and Catholics of north-eastern Scotland. It makes this argument through an intensive study of the dramatic changes in historiographical practice which took place in Scotland during this era, showing how the documentary scholarship of Jean Mabillon and the Maurists was eagerly received and rapidly developed in Scottish historical circles, resulting in the wholesale demolition of the older, Humanist myths of Scottish origins and their replacement with the foundations of our modern understanding of early Scottish history. This volume accordingly challenges many of the truisms surrounding seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Scottish history, pushing back against notions of pre-Enlightenment Scotland as backward, insular, and intellectually impoverished and mapping a richly polymathic, erudite, and transnational web of scholars, readers, and polemicists. It highlights the enduring cultural links with France and argues for the central importance of Scotland's two principal religious minorities—Episcopalians and Catholics—in the growth of Enlightenment thinking. As such, it makes a major intervention in the intellectual and cultural histories of Scotland, early modern Europe, and the Enlightenment itself.