SKETCHES OF THE CHARACTER, INSTITUTIONS, AND CUSTOMS OF THE HIGHLANDERS OF SCOTLAND.
Author: DAVID. STEWART
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Published: 2018
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ISBN-13: 9781033685945
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Published: 2018
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Publisher: Legare Street Press
Published: 2023-07-18
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781021338037
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This book is a collection of sketches of the character, institutions, and customs of the Highlanders of Scotland, offering an insight into life and culture in the Scottish Highlands. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Author: David Stewart
Publisher: Forgotten Books
Published: 2016-09-09
Total Pages: 432
ISBN-13: 9781333536466
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Excerpt from Sketches of the Character, Institutions, and Customs of the Highlanders of Scotland In the Preface to the first edition, General Stewart informs us that his statements are grounded on authentic documents on communications from people in whose intelligence and correctness he places implicit confidence; on his own personal knowledge and observation; and on the mass of general information, of great credibility and con sistency, preserved among the Highlanders of the last century and he assures us of his honest and perfect conviction of the truth of all he has advanced, and of the vital importance attached to the several points touched upon. Having explained how he was induced to commence the work, and how he suc ceeded in obtaining so much valuable and authen tic information, first, concerning the forty-second, . About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author: David Stewart
Publisher: Inverness : A. & W.Mackenzie
Published: 1885
Total Pages: 428
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Published: 1825
Total Pages: 662
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Victoria Henshaw
Publisher: A&C Black
Published: 2014-06-05
Total Pages: 288
ISBN-13: 1472514890
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The wholesale assimilation of Scots into the British Army is largely associated with the recruitment of Highlanders during and after the Seven Years War. This important new study demonstrates that the assimilation of Lowland and Highland Scots into the British Army was a salient feature of its history in the first half of the 18th century and was already well advanced by the outbreak of the Seven Years War. Scotland and the British Army, 1700-1750 analyses the wider policing functions of the British Army, the role of Scotland's militia and the development of Scotland's military roads and institutions to provide a fuller understanding of the purpose and complexity of Scotland's military organisation and presence in Scotland in the turbulent decades between the Glorious Revolution and the defeat of Bonnie Prince Charlie, which has been too often simplified as an army of occupation for the suppression of Jacobitism. Instead, Victoria Henshaw reveals the complexities and difficulties experienced by Scottish soldiers of all ranks in the British Army as nationality, loyalty and prejudice clouded Scottish desires to use military service to defend the Glorious Revolution and the Union of 1707.
Author: Colin G. Calloway
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2008-07-03
Total Pages: 392
ISBN-13: 0199887640
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →In nineteenth century paintings, the proud Indian warrior and the Scottish Highland chief appear in similar ways--colorful and wild, righteous and warlike, the last of their kind. Earlier accounts depict both as barbarians, lacking in culture and in need of civilization. By the nineteenth century, intermarriage and cultural contact between the two--described during the Seven Years' War as cousins--was such that Cree, Mohawk, Cherokee, and Salish were often spoken with Gaelic accents. In this imaginative work of imperial and tribal history, Colin Calloway examines why these two seemingly wildly disparate groups appear to have so much in common. Both Highland clans and Native American societies underwent parallel experiences on the peripheries of Britain's empire, and often encountered one another on the frontier. Indeed, Highlanders and American Indians fought, traded, and lived together. Both groups were treated as tribal peoples--remnants of a barbaric past--and eventually forced from their ancestral lands as their traditional food sources--cattle in the Highlands and bison on the Great Plains--were decimated to make way for livestock farming. In a familiar pattern, the cultures that conquered them would later romanticize the very ways of life they had destroyed. White People, Indians, and Highlanders illustrates how these groups alternately resisted and accommodated the cultural and economic assault of colonialism, before their eventual dispossession during the Highland Clearances and Indian Removals. What emerges is a finely-drawn portrait of how indigenous peoples with their own rich identities experienced cultural change, economic transformation, and demographic dislocation amidst the growing power of the British and American empires.
Author: Charles W. J. Withers
Publisher: Birlinn Ltd
Published: 2021-12-01
Total Pages: 385
ISBN-13: 178885425X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Surprisingly little is known of the geographical history of Gaelic: where and when it was spoken in the past, and how and why the Gaelic-speaking area of Scotland – the Gaidhealtachd – has retreated and the language declined. A hundred years ago there were 250,000 Gaelic speakers. Now there are 80,000. This book answers four broad questions: What has been the geography of Gaelic in the past? How has that geography changed over time and space? What have been the patterns of language use within the Gaedhealtachd in the past? And what have been the processes of language change? Emphasis is upon the changing geography of the spoken language from 1698 to 1981: from the earliest date for which it is possible to document the expanse of the Gaelic language area to the most recent census to record the numbers speaking Gaelic.
Author: Alexander Leslie Klieforth
Publisher: University Press of America
Published: 2004
Total Pages: 452
ISBN-13: 9780761827917
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