(Išleidimo metai: 30-Nov-2024, PDF+DRM, Leidėjas: Edinburgh University Press, ISBN-13: 9781399537834)
A fresh account of the remarkable rise of Dundee as a global industrial city - and the origins of its later demise. The background to jute, the product most closely associated with Dundee, is investigated in unprecedented depth. The role of flax and...Daugiau...
(Išleidimo metai: 30-Nov-2024, EPUB+DRM, Leidėjas: Edinburgh University Press, ISBN-13: 9781399537841)
A fresh account of the remarkable rise of Dundee as a global industrial city - and the origins of its later demise. The background to jute, the product most closely associated with Dundee, is investigated in unprecedented depth. The role of flax and...Daugiau...
Salt is a vital commodity. For many centuries it sustained life for Scots as seasoning for a diet dominated by grains (mainly oats), and for preservation of fish and cheese. Sea-salt manufacturing is one of Scotlands oldest industries, dating to t...Daugiau...
Mark C. Wallace, Corey Andrews, Jane Rendall, Christopher A. Whatley, David Allan, Bob Harris, Jacqueline Jenkinson, Ralph McLean, James J. Caudle, Rhona Brown...
Serija: Studies in Eighteenth-Century Scotland
(Išleidimo metai: 18-Dec-2020, PDF+DRM, Leidėjas: Bucknell University Press,U.S., ISBN-13: 9781684482702)
Social clubs as they existed in eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century Scotland were varied: they could be convivial, sporting, or scholarly, or they could be a significant and dynamic social force, committed to improvement and national regeneratio...Daugiau...
(Išleidimo metai: 08-Aug-2019, PDF+DRM, Leidėjas: Edinburgh University Press, ISBN-13: 9781474473545)
Victorian Dundee: a city grown prosperous on more than a centurys lead in linen production and for a time the worlds jute capital - Juteopolis. But textile production was accompanied by a strong sense of civic pride, some remarkable architectural...Daugiau...
(Išleidimo metai: 08-Aug-2019, PDF+DRM, Leidėjas: Edinburgh University Press, ISBN-13: 9781474473279)
As the Victorian era drew to a close, Dundee was the worlds jute manufacturing capital - Juteopolis. But behind that success was a harsh working environment and low wages, especially for the predominantly female workforce. There was appalling soci...Daugiau...
(Išleidimo metai: 18-Jul-2019, EPUB+DRM, Leidėjas: Birlinn General, ISBN-13: 9781788852081)
The tiny diamond-shaped island of Pabay lies in Skyes Inner Sound, just two and a half miles from the bustling village of Broadford. One of five Hebridean islands of that name, it derives from the Norse papa-ey, meaning island of the priest. Many...Daugiau...
(Išleidimo metai: 19-Sep-2016, EPUB+DRM, Leidėjas: John Donald Publishers Ltd, ISBN-13: 9781788853637)
Robert Burns was by far and away the most iconic figure in nineteenth-century Scotland. Multiple editions of his works poured incessantly from the presses. Unprecedentedly large crowds gathered to commemorate him at huge festivals and at the unveilin...Daugiau...
(Išleidimo metai: 14-Apr-2014, PDF+DRM, Leidėjas: Edinburgh University Press, ISBN-13: 9780748680283)
An updated edition on the 1707 Union between Scotland and England in a modern context The Scots and the Union: Then and Now is a refreshed, revised and extended edition of The Scots and the Union, which appeared in 2006. It was acclaimed then as a pa...Daugiau...
(Išleidimo metai: 14-Apr-2014, EPUB+DRM, Leidėjas: Edinburgh University Press, ISBN-13: 9780748680290)
An updated edition on the 1707 Union between Scotland and England in a modern context The Scots and the Union: Then and Now is a refreshed, revised and extended edition of The Scots and the Union, which appeared in 2006. It was acclaimed then as a pa...Daugiau...
(Išleidimo metai: 28-Feb-2010, PDF+DRM, Leidėjas: Edinburgh University Press, ISBN-13: 9780748629060)
This book explores the ordinary daily routines, behaviours, experiences and beliefs of the Scottish people during a period of immense political, social and economic change. It underlines the importance of the church in post-Reformation Scottish socie...Daugiau...
(Išleidimo metai: 10-Dec-2008, PDF+DRM, Leidėjas: Edinburgh University Press, ISBN-13: 9780748679898)
This collection brings together a series of papers that in May 2007 were presented at a Royal Society of Edinburgh conference organised to mark the 300th anniversary of the Union of 1707. One of the guiding objectives of the RSE event was to showcase...Daugiau...
Anthony Cooke, Ian Donnachie, Ann MacSween, Christopher A. Whatley
(Išleidimo metai: 30-Jan-2008, EPUB+DRM, Leidėjas: John Donald Publishers Ltd, ISBN-13: 9781788854290)
This is the first volume of a distance-learning history of Scotland course. The 26 major topics are covered in five books, designed for self-study and written to accompany the course. These volumes are: two tutorial volumes, two volumes of reprinted...Daugiau...
This is the second volume of a distance-learning history of Scotland course. This book covers 1850 to the present. The 26 major topics are covered in five books, designed for self-study and written to accompany the course. These volumes are: two tuto...Daugiau...
