The Church at Home and Abroad


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Pictonians at Home and Abroad


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Scottish Town in the Age of the Enlightenment 1740-1820


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This heavily illustrated and innovative study is founded upon personal documents, town council minutes, legal cases, inventories, travellers' tales, plans and drawings relating to some 30 Scots burghs of the Georgian period. It establishes a distinctive a




Encyclopedia of the Romantic Era, 1760–1850


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In 850 analytical articles, this two-volume set explores the developments that influenced the profound changes in thought and sensibility during the second half of the eighteenth century and the first half of the nineteenth century. The Encyclopedia provides readers with a clear, detailed, and accurate reference source on the literature, thought, music, and art of the period, demonstrating the rich interplay of international influences and cross-currents at work; and to explore the many issues raised by the very concepts of Romantic and Romanticism.




The People of Perth and Kinross, 1800-1850


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This book identifies people resident in the adjacent counties of Perthshire and Kinross-shire, as well as people abroad who originated there, between 1800-1850. The two counties now form a unitary administrative unit, known as Perth and Kinross, centered on the city of Perth. The information found in this work is derived from a wide range of archival sources such as court records, contemporary newspapers and journals, monumental inscriptions, and other documents. The entries connect emigrants and their destinations--especially in North America, the West Indies, and Australasia--with their kin who remained on Scotland.




Beside the Bard


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Whether male or female, loyalist or radical, urban or rural, literati or autodidacts, Scottish Lowland poets in the age of Burns adamantly refuse to imagine a single British nation. Instead, they pose the question of "Scotland" as a revolutionary category, always subject to creative destruction and reformation.




Pleasure, Profit, Proselytism


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This book examines aspects of sport which Britain nurtured within its own culture and also transmitted to overseas territories with the expansion of empire.




Scottish Ethnicity and the Making of New Zealand Society, 1850-1930


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This book makes an original contribution to the growing body of knowledge on the Scots abroad, presenting a coherent and comprehensive account of the Scottish immigrant experience in New Zealand.