Scottish Urban History
Author: George Gordon
Publisher: Pergamon
Published: 1983
Total Pages: 300
ISBN-13:
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The Cambridge Urban History of Britain
Author: Peter Clark
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2000
Total Pages: 386
ISBN-13: 9780521444613
DOWNLOAD EBOOKSurveys the history of British towns from their post-Roman origins down to the sixteenth century.
Painting the Town
Author: Elizabeth Patricia Dennison
Publisher:
Published: 2013
Total Pages: 475
ISBN-13: 9781908332042
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA visual record of contemporary images of Scotland's towns and townspeople before photography. Over 200 paintings, engravings, sketches, view maps and maps of eighty towns, many never seen before, together with expert commentary, offer a unique insight into the changing lifestyle and townscapes of Scotland.
An Urban History of The Plague
Author: Karen Jillings
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2018-04-17
Total Pages: 284
ISBN-13: 1317274709
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAs a medical, economic, spiritual and demographic crisis, plague affected practically every aspect of an early modern community whether on a local, regional or national scale. Its study therefore affords opportunities for the reassessment of many aspects of the pre-modern world. This book examines the incidence and effects of plague in an early modern Scottish community by analysing civic, medical and social responses to epidemics in the north-east port of Aberdeen, focusing on the period 1500–1650. While Aberdeen’s experience of plague was in many ways similar to that of other towns throughout Europe, certain idiosyncrasies in the city make it a particularly interesting case study, which challenges several assumptions about early modern mentalities.
The Scottish Town in the Age of the Enlightenment 1740-1820
Author: Bob Harris
Publisher:
Published: 2014-08-04
Total Pages: 604
ISBN-13: 9780748692576
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis heavily illustrated and innovative study is founded upon personal documents, town council minutes, legal cases, inventories, travellers' tales, plans and drawings relating to some 30 Scots burghs of the Georgian period. It establishes a distinctive history for the development of Scots burghs, their living patterns and legislative controls, and shows that the Scottish urban experience was quite different from other parts of Britain. With population expansion, and economic and social improvement, Scots of the time experienced immense change both in terms of urban behaviour and the decay of ancient privileges and restrictions. This volume shows how the Scots Georgian burgh developed to become a powerfully controlled urban community, with disturbance deliberately designed out. This is a collaborative history, melding together political, social, economic, urban and architectural histories, to achieve a comprehensive perspective on the nature of the Scottish Georgian town. Not so much a history by growth and numbers, this pioneering study of Scottish urbanization explores the type of change and the quality of result.
The Oxford Handbook of Modern Scottish History
Author: T. M. Devine
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 2012-01-26
Total Pages: 720
ISBN-13: 0199563691
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA landmark study which reconsiders in fresh and illuminating ways the classic themes of the nation's history since the sixteenth century, as well as a number of new topics which are only now receiving detailed attention. Places the Scottish experience firmly in an international historical experience.
The Early Modern Town in Scotland
Author: Michael Lynch
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2021-10-12
Total Pages: 213
ISBN-13: 1000394565
DOWNLOAD EBOOKOriginally published in 1987, this volume filled a notable gap in Scottish urban history and considers the place of Scottish towns in urban life during the 16th and 17th Centuries. The first part of the book is based on studies of individual burghs (Aberdeen, Dundee, Edinburgh and Perth) drawing extensively on archival material. The second part includes a discussion of the pressure put upon the burghs by the town between 1500 and 1650, a process which contributed to the destruction of the medieval burgh and examines the burgh during the Scottish Revolution. The impact of war and plague on Scottish towns in the 1640s is also analysed and much emphasis is given to the relationship between town and country.
Edinburgh
Author: Michael Fry
Publisher: Pan Macmillan
Published: 2011-03-21
Total Pages: 580
ISBN-13: 0330539973
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe late poet laureate, Sir John Betjeman, said that Edinburgh was the most beautiful city in Europe. Like some other great cities it is set on seven hills. But only one of these, Rome, rivals Edinburgh in matching the beauty of its setting with the stateliness of its buildings. Edinbrugh, too, provides the backdrop to much of the dark drama of the Scottish past, from Mary Queen of Scots to Bonnie Prince Charlie and beyond. Michael Fry, who has lived and worked there for nearly forty years, provides a compellingly readable account of this great city, from the earliest times to the present, balancing Edinburgh's cultural, political and social history, and painting a vivid portrait of a city - that like Stevenson's Dr Jekyll - is both dark and light, both dark and light, both 'Auld Reekie' and 'Athens of the North'. ‘Impressive ... in the style of Peter Ackroyd’s history of London’ Magnus Linklator, Spectator 'No one interested in the history of Edinburgh, and indeed Scotland, should be without it’ Allan Massie,Scotsman
Evolution of Scotland's Towns
Author: Patricia Dennison
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Published: 2018-01-23
Total Pages: 418
ISBN-13: 1474409830
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA new analysis of mind/body unity, based on the philosophy of Spinoza
Edinburgh
Author: Michael Fry
Publisher: Pan Macmillan
Published: 2009
Total Pages: 462
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKMichael Fry, who has lived & work in Edinburgh for nearly 40 years, provides a compellingly readable account of this great city, from the earliest times to the present, balancing Edinburgh's cultural, political & social history, & shows how they have borne on one another.
