Highland Clearances Trail - the Clue to the Highlands of Today
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Page : 1 pages
File Size : 27,92 MB
Release : 1981
Category : Highlands (Scotland)
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Page : 1 pages
File Size : 27,92 MB
Release : 1981
Category : Highlands (Scotland)
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Page : 476 pages
File Size : 38,15 MB
Release : 1990
Category : Scotland
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Scotland's national bibliography, listing books, periodicals, and major articles of Scottish interest published all over the world. Covers material issued since 1988.
Author : Peter Aitchison
Publisher : Casemate Publishers
Page : 163 pages
File Size : 20,14 MB
Release : 2017-07-27
Category : History
ISBN : 0857909673
The forced removal of family farmers across the Scottish Lowlands in the 18th and 19th centuries is chronicled in this enlightening social history. The Scottish Agricultural Revolution came at great cost to the poor cottars and tenant farmers who were driven from their homes to make way for livestock and crops. The process of forced evictions through the Highlands known as the Highland Clearances is a well-documented episode of Scottish history. But the process actually began in the Scottish Lowlands nearly a century before—in the so-called Age of Improvement. Though largely overlook by historians, the Lowland Clearances undeniably shaped the Scottish landscape as it is today. They swept aside a traditional way of life, causing immense upheaval for rural dwellers, many of whom moved to the new towns and cities or left the country entirely. With pioneering research, historian Peter Aitchison tells the story of the Lowland Clearances, establishing them as a significant aspect of the Clearances that changed the face of Scotland forever.
Author : Daniel Carter Beard
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Page : 160 pages
File Size : 11,2 MB
Release : 1932
Category : Boy Scouts
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Author : Elizabeth Caldwell Hirschman
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 43,55 MB
Release : 2015-05-07
Category : History
ISBN : 0786455225
The popular image of Scotland is dominated by widely recognized elements of Celtic culture. But a significant non-Celtic influence on Scotland's history has been largely ignored for centuries? This book argues that much of Scotland's history and culture from 1100 forward is Jewish. The authors provide evidence that many of the national heroes, villains, rulers, nobles, traders, merchants, bishops, guild members, burgesses, and ministers of Scotland were of Jewish descent, their ancestors originating in France and Spain. Much of the traditional historical account of Scotland, it is proposed, rests on fundamental interpretive errors, perpetuated in order to affirm Scotland's identity as a Celtic, Christian society. A more accurate and profound understanding of Scottish history has thus been buried. The authors' wide-ranging research includes examination of census records, archaeological artifacts, castle carvings, cemetery inscriptions, religious seals, coinage, burgess and guild member rolls, noble genealogies, family crests, portraiture, and geographic place names.
Author : Sir Charles Edward Callwell
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Page : 592 pages
File Size : 10,4 MB
Release : 1906
Category : History
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Author : Jared Diamond
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 727 pages
File Size : 18,86 MB
Release : 2012-12-31
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1101606002
The bestselling author of Collapse and Guns, Germs and Steel surveys the history of human societies to answer the question: What can we learn from traditional societies that can make the world a better place for all of us? “As he did in his Pulitzer Prize-winning Guns, Germs, and Steel, Jared Diamond continues to make us think with his mesmerizing and absorbing new book." Bookpage Most of us take for granted the features of our modern society, from air travel and telecommunications to literacy and obesity. Yet for nearly all of its six million years of existence, human society had none of these things. While the gulf that divides us from our primitive ancestors may seem unbridgeably wide, we can glimpse much of our former lifestyle in those largely traditional societies still or recently in existence. Societies like those of the New Guinea Highlanders remind us that it was only yesterday—in evolutionary time—when everything changed and that we moderns still possess bodies and social practices often better adapted to traditional than to modern conditions.The World Until Yesterday provides a mesmerizing firsthand picture of the human past as it had been for millions of years—a past that has mostly vanished—and considers what the differences between that past and our present mean for our lives today. This is Jared Diamond’s most personal book to date, as he draws extensively from his decades of field work in the Pacific islands, as well as evidence from Inuit, Amazonian Indians, Kalahari San people, and others. Diamond doesn’t romanticize traditional societies—after all, we are shocked by some of their practices—but he finds that their solutions to universal human problems such as child rearing, elder care, dispute resolution, risk, and physical fitness have much to teach us. Provocative, enlightening, and entertaining, The World Until Yesterday is an essential and fascinating read.
Author : Rob E. Stoneman
Publisher : Stationery Office Books (TSO)
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 17,72 MB
Release : 1997
Category : Bog conservation
ISBN : 9780114958367
Bogs are fascinating landscapes for ecologists, climatologists, archaeologists, environmental historians and water managers. But many bogs have been damaged, and legislative protection - as 29 case studies demonstrate - is not enough to conserve the rest.
Author : Air University Press
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Page : 516 pages
File Size : 36,36 MB
Release : 2019-07-02
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ISBN : 9781079351712
The story of special air warfare and the Air Commandos who served for the ambassadors in Laos from 1964 to 1975 is captured through extensive research and veteran interviews. The author has meticulously put together a comprehensive overview of the involvement of USAF Air Commandos who served in Laos as trainers, advisors, and clandestine combat forces to prevent the communist takeover of the Royal Lao Government. This book includes pictures of those operations, unveils what had been a US government secret war, and adds a substantial contribution to understanding the wider war in Southeast Asia.
Author : J. P. MacLean
Publisher : Good Press
Page : 309 pages
File Size : 15,16 MB
Release : 2019-11-27
Category : Fiction
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An Historical Account of the Settlements of Scotch Highlanders in America is a fascinating historical work by J.P. MacLean, a prominent Scottish-American historian. MacLean delves into the immigration and settlement of Scotch Highlanders in America, shedding light on their unique cultural traditions and the challenges they faced in adapting to a new land. This meticulously researched account offers valuable insights into an often-overlooked aspect of American history.