No Language No Nation The Life And Times Of The Honourable Ruaraidh Erskine Of Marr

Author : Gerard Cairns
Publisher : Rymour Books
ISBN 13 : 1919628649
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.46/5 ( download)

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Download or read book No Language! No Nation! the life and times of the Honourable Ruaraidh Erskine of Marr written by Gerard Cairns and published by Rymour Books. This book was released on 2021-06-30 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Honourable Ruaraidh Erskine of Marr led a life very much on the move. He has left us no personal papers, although his stamp is across the personal papers of many others, and he has been written about by several eminent scholars. Erskine had his supporters, most notably the historian and Gaelic language activist, Seumas Mac A’ Ghobhainn, who hailed him as a ‘forgotten Gaelic patriot’. He has had his critics too: the BBC’s Andrew Marr, wrote that ‘in colloquial terms he was a bit of a nutter’. However, Hugh MacDiarmid said regarding Erskine: ‘Justice will be done to him yet with a biography’. This is it and it is long overdue.

Author : Alan Riach
Publisher : Luath Press Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1804250368
Total Pages : 1042 pages
Book Rating : 4.65/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Scottish Literature written by Alan Riach and published by Luath Press Ltd. This book was released on 2022-05-30 with total page 1042 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What do we mean by 'Scottish literature'? Why does it matter? How do we engage with it? Bringing infectious enthusiasm and a lifetime's experience to bear on this multi-faceted literary nation, Alan Riach, Professor of Scottish Literature at the University of Glasgow, sets out to guide you through the varied and ever-evolving landscape of Scottish literature. A comprehensive and extensive work designed not only for scholars but also for the generally curious, Scottish Literature: an introduction tells the tale of Scotland's many voices across the ages, from Celtic pre-history to modern mass media. Forsaking critical jargon, Riach journeys chronologically through individual works and writers, both the famed and the forgotten, alongside broad overviews of cultural contexts which connect texts to their own times. Expanding the restrictive canon of days gone by, Riach also sets down a new core body of 'Scottish Literature': key writers and works in English, Scots, and Gaelic. Ranging across time and genre, Scottish Literature: an introduction invites you to hear Scotland through her own words.

Author : Richard Finlay
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1350278114
Total Pages : 265 pages
Book Rating : 4.10/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Scottish Nationalism written by Richard Finlay and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2022-04-07 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For more than a decade now, the issue of Scottish independence has been one of the key features in British politics and has raised questions as to the likely survival of the United Kingdom in the post Brexit era. In Scotland, the SNP has been in government since 2007 and has established a political hegemony that makes it the most successful political party in terms of electoral politics in Europe. Yet, the political philosophy of this movement has not been studied in any great depth and a number of basic questions remain unanswered, such as why is the movement non-violent and constitutional? Why does it believe that Scotland as a nation should exercise its right to self-determination and how does it square a largely outward-looking and cosmopolitan vision of society with nationalism? This book answers these important questions. By examining the evolution of nationalist ideas on Scottish history, its relationship to the philosophy of nationalism, as well as how the Treaty of Union between Scotland and England created an unusual legal and constitutional framework, this book offers new insights into Scottish history and Scotland's place within the Union and relates it to wider international and imperial British history.

Author : Gerard Cairns
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781527215580
Total Pages : 207 pages
Book Rating : 4.8X/5 ( download)

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Author : Craig Munro
Publisher : University of Queensland Press(Australia)
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 364 pages
Book Rating : 4.28/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Inky Stephensen written by Craig Munro and published by University of Queensland Press(Australia). This book was released on 1992 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: No Marketing Blurb

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 756 pages
Book Rating : 4.70/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Celtic Monthly written by and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 756 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Leo Huberman
Publisher : NYU Press
ISBN 13 : 1583675302
Total Pages : 360 pages
Book Rating : 4.04/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Man’s Worldly Goods written by Leo Huberman and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 1936-01-01 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Man's Worldly Goods - The Story of The Wealth of Nations By Leo Huberman Originally published in the 1930s, this is 'an attempt to explain history by economic theory, and economic theory by history'. It charts the path from feudalism to capitalism, and then looks beyond capitalism to a perceived socialist future. Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive.

Author : Ruaraidh Erskine
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 144 pages
Book Rating : 4.81/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Great Baltic Bubble written by Ruaraidh Erskine and published by . This book was released on 1940 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Fionn MacColla
Publisher : Canongate Books
ISBN 13 : 0862415365
Total Pages : 193 pages
Book Rating : 4.65/5 ( download)

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Download or read book And the Cock Crew written by Fionn MacColla and published by Canongate Books. This book was released on 1995 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Introduced by John Herdman, And the Cock Crew offers one of the most powerful and searching examinations of the Highland Clearances to be found in modern Scottish literature. Written during the 1930s and published in 1945, Fionn MacColla’s finest book maintains that the roots of all social change are to be found not in so-called "economic causes," but deep in the human heart. This searching and passionate novel, with its philosophical understanding of the dangers of the will to power and its passionate advocacy of old Gaelic ways, takes the familiar themes of freedom, obedience, and dispossession beyond the Clearances themselves and into the realms of the spirit. In prose style burning with the felt immediacy of the hills and glens in which the book is set, And the Cock Crew revolves around the central encounter between Fearchar the Gaelic poet, who speaks for tradition and continuity, and Maighstir Sachairi, the minister who heralds a more modern world of control, submission, and absolute necessity. At last available in print again, Fionn MacColla’s best-known novel has lost none of its power to challenge and disturb.

Author : John Urry
Publisher : SAGE
ISBN 13 : 9780761973478
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.78/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Tourist Gaze written by John Urry and published by SAGE. This book was released on 2002-03-29 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a fully revised edition of the groundbreaking study on tourism, which was originally published in 1990. The original chapters have been empirically updated and many new research findings incorporated and evaluated. This Second Edition deepens our understanding of how the tourist gaze orders and regulates the relationship with the tourist environment, demarcating the `other′ and identifying the `out-of-the-ordinary′. It elucidates the relationship between tourism and embodiment and elaborates on the connections between mobility as a mark of modern and postmodern experience and the attraction of tourism as a lifestyle choice. The result is a book that builds on the proven strengths of the first edition and revitalizes the argument to address the needs of researchers and students in the new century. Praise for the First Edition: `There is much to be applauded here...this is an engaging and thought provoking book which should be read by those interested in advertising and the changing nature of contemporary culture′ - Contemporary Sociology `The book is written in a very accessible style that would serve as a good point of entry for anyone interested in leisure, tourism, and cultural change in contemporary societies. The scope of Urry′s book is breathtaking, one is left with a feeling of coming to terms with the complex set of social relations that are tourism, both in their production and consumption′ - Planning Practice and Research