The history of civilisation in Scotland
Author: John Mackintosh (LL.D.)
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Published: 1884
Total Pages: 532
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Author: John Mackintosh (LL.D.)
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Published: 1884
Total Pages: 532
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Published: 1895
Total Pages: 484
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Arthur Herman
Publisher: Crown
Published: 2007-12-18
Total Pages: 482
ISBN-13: 0307420957
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAn exciting account of the origins of the modern world Who formed the first literate society? Who invented our modern ideas of democracy and free market capitalism? The Scots. As historian and author Arthur Herman reveals, in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries Scotland made crucial contributions to science, philosophy, literature, education, medicine, commerce, and politics—contributions that have formed and nurtured the modern West ever since. Herman has charted a fascinating journey across the centuries of Scottish history. Here is the untold story of how John Knox and the Church of Scotland laid the foundation for our modern idea of democracy; how the Scottish Enlightenment helped to inspire both the American Revolution and the U.S. Constitution; and how thousands of Scottish immigrants left their homes to create the American frontier, the Australian outback, and the British Empire in India and Hong Kong. How the Scots Invented the Modern World reveals how Scottish genius for creating the basic ideas and institutions of modern life stamped the lives of a series of remarkable historical figures, from James Watt and Adam Smith to Andrew Carnegie and Arthur Conan Doyle, and how Scottish heroes continue to inspire our contemporary culture, from William “Braveheart” Wallace to James Bond. And no one who takes this incredible historical trek will ever view the Scots—or the modern West—in the same way again.
Author: Hugh Trevor-Roper
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 2008-07-16
Total Pages: 328
ISBN-13: 0300176538
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book argues that while Anglo-Saxon culture has given rise to virtually no myths at all, myth has played a central role in the historical development of Scottish identity. Hugh Trevor-Roper explores three myths across 400 years of Scottish history: the political myth of the "ancient constitution" of Scotland; the literary myth, including Walter Scott as well as Ossian and ancient poetry; and the sartorial myth of tartan and the kilt, invented--ironically, by Englishmen--in quite modern times. Trevor-Roper reveals myth as an often deliberate cultural construction used to enshrine a people's identity. While his treatment of Scottish myth is highly critical, indeed debunking, he shows how the ritualization and domestication of Scotland's myths as local color diverted the Scottish intelligentsia from the path that led German intellectuals to a dangerous myth of racial supremacy. This compelling manuscript was left unpublished on Trevor-Roper's death in 2003 and is now made available for the first time. Written with characteristic elegance, lucidity, and wit, and containing defiant and challenging opinions, it will absorb and provoke Scottish readers while intriguing many others. "I believe that the whole history of Scotland has been coloured by myth; and that myth, in Scotland, is never driven out by reality, or by reason, but lingers on until another myth has been discovered, or elaborated, to replace it."-Hugh Trevor-Roper
Author: Chris Tabraham
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Published: 2010
Total Pages: 224
ISBN-13: 9781842042151
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Henry Thomas Buckle
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Published: 1868
Total Pages: 576
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Donald Campbell
Publisher: Signal Books
Published: 2003
Total Pages: 298
ISBN-13: 9781902669731
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPart of the Cities of the Imagination series, this is an in-depth cultural, historical, and literary guide by a lifelong native to Scotland's vibrant capital and home to one of the world's greatest arts festivals.
Author: Henry Thomas Buckle
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Published: 1865
Total Pages: 384
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Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
Published: 2020-08-02
Total Pages: 294
ISBN-13: 3752393440
DOWNLOAD EBOOKReproduction of the original: History of Civilization in England by Henry Thomas Buckle
Author: Henry Buckley
Publisher: Litres
Published: 2021-12-02
Total Pages: 818
ISBN-13: 5040619510
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