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  • Culloden

    Great Battles

    by Murray Pittock ...
    Series series Great Battles
    The battle of Culloden lasted less than an hour. The forces involved on both sides were small, even by the standards of the day. And it is arguable that the ultimate fate of the 1745 Jacobite uprising had in fact been sealed ever since the Jacobite retreat from Derby several months before. But for all this, Culloden is a battle with great significance in British history. It was the last pitched ... Read more

    $10.49 USD

  • Scotland

    The Global History: 1603 to the Present

    by Murray Pittock ...
    An engaging and authoritative history of Scotland’s influence in the world and the world’s on Scotland, from the Thirty Years’ War to the present dayScotland is one of the oldest nations in the world, yet by some it is hardly counted as a nation at all. Neither a colony of England nor a fully equal partner in the British union, Scotland has often been seen as simply a component part of British ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

  • The Shortest History of Scotland

    by Murray Pittock ...
    Series Book 22 - Shortest Histories
    READ IN A DAY. REMEMBER FOR A LIFETIMEScotland is one of the oldest nations in Europe. Its territory remains fundamentally unchanged since the fifteenth century, and its southern border with England has barely altered since 1237. And yet Scotland – a country with a global brand, its own law, education and church – is not a state at all. In The Shortest History of Scotland, Murray Pittock argues ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • The Reception of Robert Burns in Europe

    Edited by Professor Murray Pittock ...
    Series series The Reception of British and Irish Authors in Europe
    Robert Burns (1759 –1796), Scotland's national poet and pioneer of the Romantic Movement, has been hugely influential across Europe and indeed throughout the world. Burns has been translated seven times as often as Byron, with 21 Norwegian translations alone recorded since 1990; he was translated into German before the end of his short life, and was of key importance in the vernacular politics of ... Read more

    $413.99 USD

  • Edinburgh Companion to Scottish Romanticism

    Edited by Murray Pittock ...
    Series series Edinburgh Companions to Scottish Literature

    $30.99 USD

  • Enlightenment in a Smart City

    Edinburgh's Civic Development, 1660-1750

    by Murray Pittock ...

    $27.99 USD

  • The Road to Independence?

    Scotland since the Sixties

    by Murray Pittock ...
    Series series Contemporary Worlds
    Is the ‘United’ Kingdom really as united as its name might suggest? For many people in the UK, increasing nationalism in Scotland raises serious questions about what Britain is, and where its future lies. In The Road to Independence?, Murray Pittock not only gives an account of modern Scottish nationalism, but also explains what Scotland’s role in Britain has been historically, and why it has ... Read more

    $20.49 USD

  • The Road to Independence?

    Scotland in the Balance, Revised and Expanded Second Edition

    by Murray Pittock ...
    Is the United Kingdom really as united as its name might suggest? For many people in the UK, increasing nationalism in Scotland raises serious questions about what the UK is, and where its future lies. In The Road to Independence?, now available in a revised and expanded Second Edition, Murray Pittock not only gives an account of modern Scottish nationalism, but explains what Scotland’s role in ... Read more

    $22.99 USD

  • Spectrum of Decadence (Routledge Revivals)

    The Literature of the 1890s

    by Murray Pittock ...
    Series series Routledge Revivals
    The 1890s, the Naughty Nineties, was an exciting and flamboyant time in British life and literature. First published in 1993, this title traces the genesis of the literary culture of the 1890s through some of the popular novels and literary texts of the period. By examining works by such writers as Oscar Wilde, Bram Stoker, W. B. Yeats, and Walter Pater, Murray Pittock analyses the nature of the ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • Scottish and Irish Romanticism

    by Murray Pittock ...
    Scottish and Irish Romanticism is the first single-author book to address the main non-English Romanticisms of the British Isles. Murray Pittock begins by questioning the terms of his chosen title as he searches for a definition of Romanticism and for the meaning of 'national literature'. He proposes certain determining 'triggers' for the recognition of the presence of a national literature, and ... Read more

    $48.99 USD

  • Robert Burns in Global Culture

    by Murray Pittock, Leith Davis, Dominique Delmaire, R D. S. Jack, Nigel Leask, Pauline Anne Mackay, Clark McGinn, Silvia Mergenthal, Andrew Monnickendam, Alan Rawes, Frauke Reitemeier, Christopher A. Whatley, Robert Crawford ...
    Robert Burns has been a key figure in Scottish identity globally since his death in 1796. But he has always been much more than that. In America, his admirers have included Emerson, President Lincoln, Maya Angelou and many others, for Burns was long held to be a friend to the American way of life, an opponent of kings and tyranny, and someone who proved that the values that built the United States ... Read more

    $105.99 USD

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  • The Routledge History of Literature in English

    Britain and Ireland

    by Ronald Carter, John McRae ...
    The Routledge History of Literature in English covers the main developments in the history of British and Irish literature, with accompanying language notes which explore the interrelationships between language and literature at each stage. With a span from AD 600 to the present day, it emphasises the growth of literary writing, its traditions, conventions and changing characteristics, and ... Read more

    $67.99 USD