A Bookman's Catalogue Vol. 1 A-L
A Bookman's Catalogue Vol. 1 A-L

Author: T. Bose

Publisher: UBC Press

Published: 1987-01-01

Total Pages: 540

ISBN-13: 9780774802741

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The Colbeck collection was formed over half a century ago by the Bournemouth bookseller Norman Colbeck. Focusing primarily on British essayists and poets of the nineteenth century from the Romantic Movement through the Edwardian era, the collection features nearly 500 authors and lists over 13,000 works. Entries are alphabetically arranged by author with copious notes on the condition and binding of each copy. Nine appendices provide listings of selected periodicals, series publications, anthologies, yearbooks, and topical works.

Military History of Scotland
Military History of Scotland

Author: Spiers Edward M. Spiers

Publisher: Edinburgh University Press

Published: 2014-07-11

Total Pages: 857

ISBN-13: 0748654011

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The Scottish soldier has been at war for over 2000 years. Until now, no reference work has attempted to examine this vast heritage of warfare.A Military History of Scotland offers readers an unparalleled insight into the evolution of the Scottish military tradition. This wide-ranging and extensively illustrated volume traces the military history of Scotland from pre-history to the recent conflict in Afghanistan. Edited by three leading military historians, and featuring contributions from thirty scholars, it explores the role of warfare in the emergence of a Scottish kingdom, the forging of a Scottish-British military identity, and the participation of Scots in Britain's imperial and world wars. Eschewing a narrow definition of military history, it investigates the cultural and physical dimensions of Scotland's military past such as Scottish military dress and music, the role of the Scottish soldier in art and literature, Scotland's fortifications and battlefield archaeology, and Scotland's military memorials and museum collections.

Clanship, Commerce and the House of Stuart, 1603-1788
Clanship, Commerce and the House of Stuart, 1603-1788

Author: Allan I. MacInnes

Publisher: Birlinn Ltd

Published: 2022-07-07

Total Pages: 259

ISBN-13: 1788854047

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This is an appraisal of clanship both with respect to its vitality and its eventual demise, in which the author views clanship as a socio-economic, as well as a political agency, deriving its strength from personal obligations and mutual service between chiefs and gentry and their clansmen. Its demise is attributed to the throwing over of these personal obligations by the clan elite, not to legislation or central government repression. The book discusses the impact on the clans of the inevitable shift, with the passage of time, from feudalism to capitalism, regardless of the "Forty Five". It draws upon estate papers, family correspondence, financial compacts, social bonds and recorded oral tradition rather than the biased records of central government.

A Question of Manhood, Volume 1
A Question of Manhood, Volume 1

Author: Darlene Clark Hine

Publisher: Indiana University Press

Published: 1999-10-22

Total Pages: 630

ISBN-13: 9780253112477

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Each of these essays illuminates an important dimension of the complex array of Black male experiences as workers, artists, warriors, and leaders. The essays describe the expectations and demands to struggle, to resist, and facilitate the survival of African American culture and community. Black manhood was shaped not only in relation to Black womanhood, but was variously nurtured and challenged, honed and transformed against a backdrop of white male power and domination, and the relentless expectations and demands on them to struggle, resist, and to facilitate the survival of African-American culture and community.