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  • Scottish Loyalism in the British Atlantic World

    Edited by Katie Louise McCullough, Graeme Morton ...
    Using recent work on loyalism in Britain, Ireland, and the British Atlantic as a foundation, this book offers a pioneering exploration of Scottish loyalism and explores the many ways in which Scottish loyalists shaped the British Atlantic world in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.Scots have yet to be examined as a particular ethnic group in the context of loyalism in the British Atlantic ... Read more

    $73.99 USD

  • Weather, Migration and the Scottish Diaspora

    Leaving the Cold Country

    by Graeme Morton ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Modern British History
    Why did large numbers of Scots leave a temperate climate to live permanently in parts of the world where greater temperature extreme was the norm? The long nineteenth century was a period consistently cooler than now, and Scotland remains the coldest of the British nations. Nineteenth-century meteorologists turned to environmental determinism to explain the persistence of agricultural shortage and ... Read more

    $61.99 USD

  • Scotland and the First World War

    Myth, Memory, and the Legacy of Bannockburn

    by Fran Brearton, Michael Brown, Caroline McCracken-Flesher, Robert Crawford, Stefan Goebel, David Goldie, Margaret R. Higonnet, Peter Mackay, Graeme Morton, Carol Symes, Catriona M.M. MacDonald ...
    Series series Aperçus: Histories Texts Cultures
    What did war look like in the cultural imagination of 1914? Why did men in Scotland sign up to fight in unprecedented numbers? What were the martial myths shaping Scottish identity from the aftermath of Bannockburn to the close of the nineteenth century, and what did the Scottish soldiers of the First World War think they were fighting for? Scotland and the First World War: Myth, Memory and the ... Read more

    $44.99 USD

  • Irish and Scottish Encounters with Indigenous Peoples

    Canada, the United States, New Zealand, and Australia

    by Graeme Morton, David Wilson ...
    The expansion of the British Empire during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries created the greatest mass migration in human history, in which the Irish and Scots played a central, complex, and controversial role. The essays in this volume explore the diverse encounters Irish and Scottish migrants had with Indigenous peoples in North America and Australasia.The Irish and Scots were among the ... Read more

    $36.89 USD

  • Ourselves and Others

    Scotland 1832-1914

    by Graeme Morton ...
    Series series New History of Scotland

    $27.29 USD

  • William Wallace

    A National Tale

    by Graeme Morton ...

    $27.29 USD

  • Civil Society, Associations and Urban Places

    Class, Nation and Culture in Nineteenth-Century Europe

    by Boudien de Vries ...
    Series series Historical Urban Studies Series
    In recent years the concept of 'civil society' has become central to the historian's understanding of class, cultural and political power in the nineteenth-century town and city. Increasingly clubs and voluntary societies have been regarded as an important step in the formation of formal political parties, particularly for the working and middle classes. The result of this is the assertion that ... Read more

    $73.99 USD

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  • White People, Indians, and Highlanders

    Tribal People and Colonial Encounters in Scotland and America

    by Colin G. Calloway ...
    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- ... Read more

    $35.09 USD

  • A Land of Dreams

    Ethnicity, Nationalism, and the Irish in Newfoundland, Nova Scotia, and Maine, 1880-1923

    by Patrick Mannion ...
    Series Book 46 - McGill-Queen's Studies in Ethnic History
    Wherever they settled, immigrants from Ireland and their descendants shaped and reshaped their understanding of being Irish in response to circumstances in both the old and new worlds. In A Land of Dreams, Patrick Mannion analyzes and compares the evolution of Irish identity in three communities on the prow of northeastern North America: St John’s, Newfoundland, Halifax, Nova Scotia, and Portland, ... Read more

    $41.39 USD

  • Scotland and the British Empire

    Edited by John M. MacKenzie, T. M. Devine ...
    Series series Oxford History of the British Empire Companion Series
    The extraordinary influence of Scots in the British Empire has long been recognized. As administrators, settlers, temporary residents, professionals, plantation owners, and as military personnel, they were strikingly prominent in North America, the Caribbean, Australasia, South Africa, India, and colonies in South-East Asia and Africa. Throughout these regions they brought to bear distinctive ... Read more

    $34.19 USD

  • How the Scots Invented the Modern World

    The True Story of How Western Europe's Poorest Nation Created Our World and Everything in It

    by Arthur Herman ...
    An exciting account of the origins of the modern worldWho 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 ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

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  • The Making of Modern Britain

    by Andrew Marr ...
    In The Making of Modern Britain, Andrew Marr paints a fascinating portrait of life in Britain during the first half of the twentieth century as the country recovered from the grand wreckage of the British Empire.Between the death of Queen Victoria and the end of the Second World War, the nation was shaken by war and peace. The two wars were the worst we had ever known and the episodes of peace ... Read more

    $18.09 USD

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