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Author | : Robert McColl Millar |
Publisher | : Edinburgh University Press |
Total Pages | : 248 |
Release | : 2018-03-07 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 1474416888 |
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Your user-friendly study and revision guide to Scots criminal law, written specially for students by a law lecturer with over 20 years of teaching experience.
Author | : Arthur Herman |
Publisher | : Crown |
Total Pages | : 482 |
Release | : 2007-12-18 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0307420957 |
Download How the Scots Invented the Modern World Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
An exciting account of the origins of the modern world Who formed the first literate society? Who invented our modern ideas of democracy and free market capitalism? The Scots. As historian and author Arthur Herman reveals, in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries Scotland made crucial contributions to science, philosophy, literature, education, medicine, commerce, and politics—contributions that have formed and nurtured the modern West ever since. Herman has charted a fascinating journey across the centuries of Scottish history. Here is the untold story of how John Knox and the Church of Scotland laid the foundation for our modern idea of democracy; how the Scottish Enlightenment helped to inspire both the American Revolution and the U.S. Constitution; and how thousands of Scottish immigrants left their homes to create the American frontier, the Australian outback, and the British Empire in India and Hong Kong. How the Scots Invented the Modern World reveals how Scottish genius for creating the basic ideas and institutions of modern life stamped the lives of a series of remarkable historical figures, from James Watt and Adam Smith to Andrew Carnegie and Arthur Conan Doyle, and how Scottish heroes continue to inspire our contemporary culture, from William “Braveheart” Wallace to James Bond. And no one who takes this incredible historical trek will ever view the Scots—or the modern West—in the same way again.
Author | : Alexander Bergs |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 78 |
Release | : 2001 |
Genre | : Foreign Language Study |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Walter Bower |
Publisher | : Birlinn |
Total Pages | : 431 |
Release | : 2019-11-19 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1788853261 |
Download A History Book for Scots Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Riveting selections from a 15-century account of Scottish history, one of Scotland’s national treasures. Writing on a small island in the Firth of Forth in the 1440s, Walter Bower set out to tell the whole story of the Scottish nation in a single huge book, the Scotichronicon— “a history book for Scots.” It begins with the mythical voyage of Scota, the Pharaoh’s daughter, from Egypt with the Stone of Destiny. The land that her sons discovered in the Western Ocean was named after her: Scotland. It then describes the turbulent events that followed, among them the wars of the Scots and the Picts (begun by a quarrel over a dog); the poisoning of King Fergus by his wife; Macbeth’s usurpation and uneasy reign; the good deeds of Margaret, queen and saint; Bruce’s murder of the Red Comyn; the founding of Scotland’s first university at St. Andrews; the “Burnt Candlemas;” and the endless troubles between Scotland and England. Weaving in and out of the events of Bower’s factual history are other subjects that fascinated him: harrowing visions of hell and purgatory, extraordinary miracles; the exploits of knights and beggars, merchants and monks; the ravages of flood and fire; the terrors of the plague; and the answers to such puzzling questions as what makes a good king, and why Englishmen have tails. This monumental work, in which the original Latin text appears side by side with a translation in modern English, was completed in 1998. It includes an introduction and notes that guide the reader through the complexities of Bower’s history and its background.
Author | : Margaret G. Dareau |
Publisher | : OUP Oxford |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2001-12-20 |
Genre | : Reference |
ISBN | : 9780198605423 |
Download Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue from the Twelfth Century to the End of the Seventeenth: Volume 10, Stra-3ere Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
The Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue defines and illustrates every meaning of every word used in written English in Scotland up to 1700. It is an indispensable reference tool for historians of Scots language, literature, politics, law, and social history.
Author | : Jones Charles Jones |
Publisher | : Edinburgh University Press |
Total Pages | : 608 |
Release | : 2019-07-31 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 1474469639 |
Download Edinburgh History of the Scots Language Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This is the first full scale attempt to record the diachronic development of this important English language variety and includes extensive essays by some of the foremost international scholars of the Scots language. The book attempts to provide a detailed and technical description of the syntax, phonology, morphology and vocabulary of the language in two main periods: the beginnings to 1700 and from 1700 to the present day. The language's geographical variation both in the past and at the present time are fully documented and the sociolinguistic forces which lie behind linguistic innovation and its transmission provide a principal theme running through the book.WINNER of the Saltire society/National Library of Scotland Scottish Research Book of the Year Award
Author | : Arthur Herman |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 468 |
Release | : 2003 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
Download The Scottish Enlightenment Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Drawing on the most recent research, but written for the ordinary reader, this book looks at the influence of Scotland and the ideas of the Scottish Enlightenment upon western culture.
Author | : Andrew Blaikie |
Publisher | : Edinburgh University Press |
Total Pages | : 272 |
Release | : 2010-03-22 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0748628290 |
Download Scots Imagination and Modern Memory Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This highly original study explores how different, but connected ways of seeing infuse relationships between place and belonging. Its argument is that all memories, whether fleeting glimpses or elaborated narratives, necessarily invoke imagined pasts - tenement life, island cultures, vanished moralities, even the origins of social science. But do these multiple recollections share a common frame of reference? Are perceptions conditioned by a collective social imaginary?Visions of nation and community, from Adam Ferguson's ideas on the development of civil society through John Grierson's pioneering of documentary film to the structures of feeling in popular fiction, reflect the impact of modernity on Scottish culture since the late eighteenth century. While landscape as the symbolic 'face of Scotland' and its attendant mental contours have been produced and debated in many genres, including travel literature, social commentary, novels and magazines, changes in the means of capturing and presenting images, particularly the emergent possibilities of the photograph, have affected the ways we identify and remember. The analysis adopts a broadly sociological approach, but its range lends equal appeal to social historians, cultural geographers, and particularly those pursuing visual or memory studies.
Author | : Alexander Scott |
Publisher | : Preston : Akros Publications |
Total Pages | : 176 |
Release | : 1978 |
Genre | : Dover, Cedric |
ISBN | : |
Download Modern Scots Verse, 1922-1977 Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Author | : Jennifer Bann |
Publisher | : Edinburgh University Press |
Total Pages | : 192 |
Release | : 2015-10-31 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1474408397 |
Download Spelling Scots Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This book analyses the development of Modern Scots orthography and compares the spelling used in key works of literature, showing how canonical writers of poetry and fiction in Scots have blended convention and innovation in presenting Scots.