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47 produkter
Culloden
Great Battles
Häftad, 2022
152 kr
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The battle of Culloden lasted less than an hour. The forces involved on both sides were small, even by the standards of the day. And it is arguable that the ultimate fate of the 1745 Jacobite uprising had in fact been sealed ever since the Jacobite retreat from Derby several months before.But for …
Scottish and Irish Romanticism
E-bok, 2008
694 kr
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Scottish and Irish Romanticism is the first single-author book to address the main non-English Romanticisms of the British Isles. Murray Pittock begins by questioning the terms of his chosen title as he searches for a definition of Romanticism and for the meaning of ''national literature''. He …
Scottish and Irish Romanticism
E-bok, 2011
694 kr
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Scottish and Irish Romanticism is the first single-author book to address the main non-English Romanticisms of the British Isles. Murray Pittock begins by questioning the terms of his chosen title as he searches for a definition of Romanticism and for the meaning of ''national literature''. He …
Culloden
Great Battles
E-bok, 2016
110 kr
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The battle of Culloden lasted less than an hour. The forces involved on both sides were small, even by the standards of the day. And it is arguable that the ultimate fate of the 1745 Jacobite uprising had in fact been sealed ever since the Jacobite retreat from Derby several months before.But for …
Culloden
Great Battles
E-bok, 2016
110 kr
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The battle of Culloden lasted less than an hour. The forces involved on both sides were small, even by the standards of the day. And it is arguable that the ultimate fate of the 1745 Jacobite uprising had in fact been sealed ever since the Jacobite retreat from Derby several months before.But for …
Scottish and Irish Romanticism
Inbunden, 2008
2389 kr
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Scottish and Irish Romanticism is the first single-author book to address the main non-English Romanticisms of the British Isles. Murray Pittock begins by questioning the terms of his chosen title as he searches for a definition of Romanticism and for the meaning of 'national literature'. He …
Culloden
Great Battles
Inbunden, 2016
261 kr
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The battle of Culloden lasted less than an hour. The forces involved on both sides were small, even by the standards of the day. And it is arguable that the ultimate fate of the 1745 Jacobite uprising had in fact been sealed ever since the Jacobite retreat from Derby several months before. But for …
Scottish and Irish Romanticism
Häftad, 2011
941 kr
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Scottish and Irish Romanticism is the first single-author book to address the main non-English Romanticisms of the British Isles. Murray Pittock begins by questioning the terms of his chosen title as he searches for a definition of Romanticism and for the meaning of 'national literature'. He …
Scottish Nationality
E-bok, 2017
1766 kr
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The changes begun by the devolution referendum of 1997 have caused interest and concern throughout Britain. What seemed a remote and abstract question to many has, in the last few years, struck at the heart of the issue of what Britain is - and it is increasingly clear that things will never be the …
Scotland
The Global History: 1603 to the Present
E-bok, 2022
221 kr
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An engaging and authoritative history of Scotland’s influence in the world and the world’s on Scotland, from the Thirty Years’ War to the present day Scotland is one of the oldest nations in the world, yet by some it is hardly counted as a nation at all. Neither a colony of England nor a fully …
Scotland
The Global History: 1603 to the Present
Häftad, 2023
165 kr
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An engaging and authoritative history of Scotland’s influence in the world and the world’s on Scotland, from the Thirty Years’ War to the present day Scotland is one of the oldest nations in the world, yet by some it is hardly counted as a nation at all. Neither a colony of England nor a fully …
Inventing and Resisting Britain
Cultural Identities in Britain and Ireland, 1685–1789
Häftad, 1997
621 kr
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This book examines the difficulties and challenges which faced attempts to create a British identity. Taking its perspective from the cultural, social and political margins of the British Isles, it demonstrates how fragile the supposed political consensus of the eighteenth century was. To read it …
Jacobitism
Häftad, 1998
519 kr
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The last genuine rebellion on British soil, the Jacobite rising of 1745 forms one of the greatest 'what ifs' of British history. If Bonnie Prince Charlie's troops had defeated the forces of George II, it is fair to say that the entire subsequent course of the country's history would have been …
Scottish Nationality
Inbunden, 2001
1616 kr
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The changes begun by the devolution referendum of 1997 have caused interest and concern throughout Britain. What seemed a remote and abstract question to many has, in the last few years, struck at the heart of the issue of what Britain is - and it is increasingly clear that things will never be the …
Reception of Robert Burns in Europe
E-bok, 2014
6720 kr
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Robert Burns (1759 –1796), Scotland''s national poet and pioneer of the Romantic Movement, has been hugely influential across Europe and indeed throughout the world. Burns has been translated seven times as often as Byron, with 21 Norwegian translations alone recorded since 1990; he was translated …
Reception of Robert Burns in Europe
E-bok, 2014
6575 kr
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Robert Burns (1759 –1796), Scotland''s national poet and pioneer of the Romantic Movement, has been hugely influential across Europe and indeed throughout the world. Burns has been translated seven times as often as Byron, with 21 Norwegian translations alone recorded since 1990; he was translated …
Celtic Identity and the British Image
Häftad, 1999
382 kr
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This work explores the idea of the Celt and the definition of the so-called "Celtic Fringe" over the last 300 years. It is an in-depth study of the literary and cultural representation of Ireland, Scotland and Wales over this period, and is based on a wide-ranging grasp of issues of national …
Jacobite Relics of Scotland
Volume 2
Inbunden, 2003
2140 kr
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James Hogg's Jacobite Relics - originally commissioned by the Highland Society of London in 1817 - is an important addition to The Collected Works of James Hogg. It created a canon for the Jacobite song which had an enormous influence on subsequent collections, and was of great importance in …
Jacobite Relics of Scotland
Volume 1
Inbunden, 2002
2368 kr
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James Hogg's Jacobite Relics - originally commissioned by the Highland Society of London in 1817 - is an important addition to The Collected Works of James Hogg. It created a canon for the Jacobite song which had an enormous influence on subsequent collections, and was of great importance in …
Edinburgh History of Scottish Literature: From Columba to the Union (until 1707)
Av Ian Brown, Thomas Clancy m. fl.
Inbunden, 2006
2468 kr
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The Edinburgh History of Scottish LiteratureGeneral Editor: Ian BrownCo-editors: Thomas Owen Clancy, Susan Manning and Murray PittockThe Edinburgh History of Scottish Literature offers a major reinterpretation, re-evaluation and repositioning of the scope, nature and importance of Scottish …
Edinburgh History of Scottish Literature: Enlightenment, Britain and Empire (1707–1918)
Av Ian Brown, Thomas Clancy m. fl.
Inbunden, 2006
2414 kr
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The Edinburgh History of Scottish LiteratureGeneral Editor: Ian BrownCo-editors: Thomas Owen Clancy, Susan Manning and Murray PittockThe Edinburgh History of Scottish Literature offers a major reinterpretation, re-evaluation and repositioning of the scope, nature and importance of Scottish …
Myth of the Jacobite Clans
The Jacobite Army in 1745
Inbunden, 2009
1371 kr
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The Myth of the Jacobite Clans was first published in 1995: a revolutionary book, it argued that British history had long sought to caricature Jacobitism rather than to understand it, and that the Jacobite Risings drew on extensive Lowland support and had a national quality within Scotland. The …
Myth of the Jacobite Clans
The Jacobite Army in 1745
Häftad, 2009
385 kr
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The Myth of the Jacobite Clans was first published in 1995: a revolutionary book, it argued that British history had long sought to caricature Jacobitism rather than to understand it, and that the Jacobite Risings drew on extensive Lowland support and had a national quality within Scotland. The …
Edinburgh History of Scottish Literature - Three-Volume Set
Av Ian Brown, Thomas Clancy m. fl.
Inbunden, 2006
6192 kr
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The Edinburgh History of Scottish Literature offers a major reinterpretation, re-evaluation and repositioning of the scope, nature and importance of Scottish Literature, arguably Scotland’s most important and influential contribution to world culture. Drawing on the very best of recent scholarship, …
Edinburgh Companion to Scottish Romanticism
Häftad, 2011
430 kr
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Bringing together an international group of experts, this companion explores a distinctly Scottish Romanticism. Discussing the most influential texts and authors in depth, the original essays shed new critical light on texts from Macpherson's Ossian poetry to Hogg's Confessions of a Justified …
Reception of Sir Walter Scott in Europe
Inbunden, 2007
6542 kr
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Sir Walter Scott (1771-1832) had an immense impact throughout Europe. His historical fiction, which brought the ideas of Enlightenment to bear on the novel, created for the first time a sense of the past as a place where people thought, felt and dressed differently. His writing influenced Balzac, …
Spectrum of Decadence (Routledge Revivals)
The Literature of the 1890s
Inbunden, 2014
2905 kr
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The 1890s, the Naughty Nineties, was an exciting and flamboyant time in British life and literature. First published in 1993, this title traces the genesis of the literary culture of the 1890s through some of the popular novels and literary texts of the period. By examining works by such writers as …
Spectrum of Decadence (Routledge Revivals)
The Literature of the 1890s
Häftad, 2016
749 kr
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The 1890s, the Naughty Nineties, was an exciting and flamboyant time in British life and literature. First published in 1993, this title traces the genesis of the literary culture of the 1890s through some of the popular novels and literary texts of the period. By examining works by such writers as …
Spectrum of Decadence (Routledge Revivals)
The Literature of the 1890s
E-bok, 2014
876 kr
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The 1890s, the Naughty Nineties, was an exciting and flamboyant time in British life and literature. First published in 1993, this title traces the genesis of the literary culture of the 1890s through some of the popular novels and literary texts of the period. By examining works by such writers as …
