Tours in Scotland
Author: Richard Pococke
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Published: 1887
Total Pages: 464
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Author: Richard Pococke
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Published: 1887
Total Pages: 464
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Victoria Henshaw
Publisher: A&C Black
Published: 2014-06-05
Total Pages: 314
ISBN-13: 1472514890
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe wholesale assimilation of Scots into the British Army is largely associated with the recruitment of Highlanders during and after the Seven Years War. This important new study demonstrates that the assimilation of Lowland and Highland Scots into the British Army was a salient feature of its history in the first half of the 18th century and was already well advanced by the outbreak of the Seven Years War. Scotland and the British Army, 1700-1750 analyses the wider policing functions of the British Army, the role of Scotland's militia and the development of Scotland's military roads and institutions to provide a fuller understanding of the purpose and complexity of Scotland's military organisation and presence in Scotland in the turbulent decades between the Glorious Revolution and the defeat of Bonnie Prince Charlie, which has been too often simplified as an army of occupation for the suppression of Jacobitism. Instead, Victoria Henshaw reveals the complexities and difficulties experienced by Scottish soldiers of all ranks in the British Army as nationality, loyalty and prejudice clouded Scottish desires to use military service to defend the Glorious Revolution and the Union of 1707.
Author: Richard Pococke
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Published: 1888
Total Pages: 140
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Ian Charles Cargill Graham
Publisher: Genealogical Publishing Com
Published: 2009-06
Total Pages: 223
ISBN-13: 0806345179
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis distinguished monograph is a treatise on the causes and character of Scottish emigration to North America prior to the American Revolution. Entire chapters are then devoted to Lowland and Highland emigration, forced transportation of felons and the drafting of Scottish troops to the colonies, rising rents and other factors in the Scottish social structure, and the British government's role in colonization. Three concluding chapters cover the geographical centers of Scottish settlement--especially the Carolinas.
Author: Leslie Stephen
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Published: 1896
Total Pages: 486
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Published: 1922
Total Pages: 1408
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Published: 1896
Total Pages: 464
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Published: 1883
Total Pages: 656
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Jennifer Speake
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2014-05-12
Total Pages: 3477
ISBN-13: 1135456623
DOWNLOAD EBOOKContaining more than 600 entries, this valuable resource presents all aspects of travel writing. There are entries on places and routes (Afghanistan, Black Sea, Egypt, Gobi Desert, Hawaii, Himalayas, Italy, Northwest Passage, Samarkand, Silk Route, Timbuktu), writers (Isabella Bird, Ibn Battuta, Bruce Chatwin, Gustave Flaubert, Mary Kingsley, Walter Ralegh, Wilfrid Thesiger), methods of transport and types of journey (balloon, camel, grand tour, hunting and big game expeditions, pilgrimage, space travel and exploration), genres (buccaneer narratives, guidebooks, New World chronicles, postcards), companies and societies (East India Company, Royal Geographical Society, Society of Dilettanti), and issues and themes (censorship, exile, orientalism, and tourism). For a full list of entries and contributors, a generous selection of sample entries, and more, visit the Literature of Travel and Exploration: An Encyclopedia website.
Author: Rachel Finnegan
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2019-06-17
Total Pages: 345
ISBN-13: 9004404228
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn English Explorers in the East (1738-1745). The Travels of Thomas Shaw, Charles Perry and Richard Pococke, Rachel Finnegan offers an account of the influential travel writings of three rival explorers, whose eastern travel books were printed within a decade of each other. Making use of historical records, Finnegan examines the personal and professional motives of the three authors for producing their eastern travels; their methods of researching, drafting, and publicising their works while still abroad; their relationships with each other, both while travelling and on their return to England; and the legacy of their combined works. She also provides a survey of the main features (both textual and visual) of the travel books themselves.