Genealogical Encyclopedia of the Colonial Americas
Genealogical Encyclopedia of the Colonial Americas

Author: Christina K. Schaefer

Publisher: Genealogical Publishing Com

Published: 1998

Total Pages: 846

ISBN-13: 9780806315768

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Covers the period of colonial history from the beginning of European colonization in the Western Hemisphere up to the time of the American Revolution.

Scotland in Revolution, 1685-1690
Scotland in Revolution, 1685-1690

Author: Alasdair Raffe

Publisher: Edinburgh University Press

Published: 2019-08-07

Total Pages: 272

ISBN-13: 1474471846

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Explores the transformative reign of the Catholic King James VII and the revolution that brought about his fall.

The Scottish Book Trade, 1500-1720
The Scottish Book Trade, 1500-1720

Author: Alastair J. Mann

Publisher: Birlinn Ltd

Published: 2000-12-12

Total Pages: 303

ISBN-13: 1788854195

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This volume examines the Scottish book trade from c.1500 to c.1720, looking at booksellers, bookbinders, stationers and printers and their relationship to the forces of authority. The scale of the Scottish book trade in this period was surprisingly large, consisting of over 150 printers and over 400 booksellers, but its rate of growth was not constant as it was buffeted by the winds of economic and political circumstances. It is the public, not private world of book dissemination that is examined. Emphsis is placed more on supply than on demand. It is shown that the unique qualities of the printed book, with its blend of commerce and technology on the one hand, and intellect and ideology on the other, ensured that authority - burghs, church, governemt (crown and executive) and law courts - reacted with a complex response of liberty and prohibition. So it was for all nations experiencing the arrival of printing, but Scotland had its own particular range of dynamics, a distinct Scottish tradition.