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“tom m devine”

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  • Irish Immigrants and Scottish Society in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries

    Proceedings of the Scottish Historical Studies Seminar, University of Strathclyde, 1989/90

    Edited by Tom M. Devine ...
    The Irish were the single largest group of immigrants to Scotland in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, and the original settlers and their descendants have had a major impact on modern Scottish society, culture and politics. This book of original studies is the first major reassessment of the general effect of Irish immigration on Scotland since the classic works of James Handley during the ... Read more

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  • Clearance and Improvement

    Land, Power and People in Scotland, 1700-1900

    by Tom M. Devine ...
    Social and economic changes included an increase in production of food and raw materials, in turn sustaining the remarkable growth of towns and cities over this period. However, in the folk memory of Scotland the social and cultural costs of the revolution loom much larger: the loss of land for many thousands of families; the rise of individualism and the decline of neighborhood; the death of old ... Read more

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  • Eighteenth Century Scotland

    New Perspectives

    by Tom M. Devine, John R. Young ...
    This impressive collection of essays is based on a two-year seminar series of the Research centre in Scottish History at the University of Strathclyde. New and original research, as well as historiographical overviews and commentaries, illuminate the study of this formative century in the creation of modern Scotland. Contributors are leading figures in their fields, and the Scottish experience is ... Read more

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  • The Great Highland Famine

    Hunger, Emigration and the Scottish Highlands in the Nineteenth Century

    by Tom M. Devine ...
    The Great Hunger in nineteenth-century Ireland was a major human tragedy of modern times. Almost a million perished and a further two million emigrated in the wake of potato blight and economic collapse. Acute famine also gripped the Scottish Highlands at the same time, causing misery, hardship and distress. The story of that lesser known human disaster is told in this prize-winning and ... Read more

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  • Recovering Scotland's Slavery Past

    The Caribbean Connection

    Edited by Tom M. Devine ...

    $25.99 USD

  • Conflict and Stability in Scottish Society, 1700-1850

    Edited by Tom M. Devine ...
    Between the early eighteenth and the middle decades of the nineteenth century, Scottish society was transformed by industrialisation, urbanisation and major changes in agriculture and rural society. The rate of town and city growth was among the fastest in western Europe, migration and emigration accelerated and the traditional way of life in the Highland and Lowland countryside was brought to an ... Read more

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  • New Scots

    Scotland's Immigrant Communities since 1945

    Edited by Tom M. Devine ...
    Series series Studies in British and Irish Migration

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  • Wales: England's Colony?

    by Martin Johnes ...
    From the very beginnings of Wales, its people have defined themselves against their large neighbour. Wales: England's Colony? shows, that relationship has not only defined what it has meant to be Welsh, it has also been central to making and defining Wales as a nation. Yet the relationship between the two nations has not always been a happy one and never one between equals. Wales was England's ... Read more

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  • 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

    $33.29 USD

  • The Oxford Handbook of Modern Scottish History

    Edited by T. M. Devine, Jenny Wormald ...
    Series series Oxford Handbooks
    Over the last three decades major advances in research and scholarship have transformed understanding of the Scottish past. In this landmark study some of the most eminent writers on the subject, together with emerging new talents, have combined to produce a large-scale volume which reconsiders in fresh and illuminating ways the classic themes of the nation's history since the sixteenth century as ... Read more

    $43.99 USD

  • A Short History of Ireland, 1500–2000

    by John Gibney ...
    A brisk, concise, and readable overview of Irish history from the Protestant Reformation to the dawn of the twenty-first century.Five centuries of Irish history are explored in this informative and accessible volume. Beginning with Ireland's modern period at the dawn of the sixteenth century, John Gibney continues through to virtually the present day, offering an integrated overview of the island ... Read more

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  • God's Fury, England's Fire

    A New History of the English Civil Wars

    by Michael Braddick ...
    A brilliantly researched and vividly written history of the English Civil Wars, from one of Britain's most prominent Civil War historiansThe sequence of civil wars that ripped England apart in the seventeenth century was the single most traumatic event in this country between the medieval Black Death and the two world wars. Indeed, it is likely that a greater percentage of the population were ... Read more

    $20.19 USD