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The Book of the Duffs; Volume 1
Alistair Norwich Tayler's genealogical study of the Duff family is a fascinating account of one of Scotland's most prominent noble families. With meticulous research and insightful analysis, Tayler traces the ancestry and history of the Duffs from their earliest origins to the present day. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
The Glenbuchat Ballads
Sometime in the early nineteenth century, most likely in the year 1818, the Reverend Robert Scott, minister of the parish of Glenbuchat in Aberdeenshire, Scotland, compiled a collection of traditional ballads that until now has not been published. Most of the ballad collections produced during the Scottish Romantic Revival were eventually anthologized in Francis James Child's seminal English and Scottish Popular Ballads (five volumes, 1882-96). Yet, the Glenbuchat manuscripts, containing sixty-eight ballads in four folio volumes, were not included in Child's volumes. The complete work only came to light in 1949 when it was donated to the Special Collections of the Aberdeen University Library...
British Liberators in the Age of Napoleon
This is the first book-length examination of the involvement of British volunteers in the Spanish forces during the Napoleonic Wars.
Military Migration and State Formation
Historians have long believed that the European continent experienced a profound period of social, economic, and political crisis during the seventeenth century. This era saw the last stages of the great confessional wars; problems of a more general nature, such as economic depression and population decline, also plagued most European societies. Out of the ashes of the century's social, economic, and political dislocation arose a new political force, namely, the centralized state. To participate in long-term warfare, expand their economies, and create strong armies, monarchs throughout Europe modernized their state apparatuses and in the process developed professional military administration...
Lord Fife and His Factor
Selections from over 20,000 letters written from London by Lord Fife to his Factor ("doer"or agent) in Scotland, William Rose, who carefully preserved all the letters. Although Lord Fife's eighty years (1729-1809) were all lived under two sovereigns B thirty-one years in the reign of George II, and forty-nine in that of George III, yet he linked up three distinct political and literary ages. When he was born, Steele, Sterne, Defoe, Gay, Swift, Pope, and Bolingbroke were still living; Johnson was only twenty years, Chatham twenty-one, and Horace Walpole twelve years older than he. Among his contemporaries and friends were Burke, Reynolds, Goldsmith, Garrick, the younger Pitt, Henry Dundas, Clive, Warren Hastings, Lord North, and Charles, Lord Stanhope. Nelson, Napoleon, and Wellington were all born while he was in middle life. When he was becoming an old man, Carlyle and Maccaulay were born, and Wordsworth, Coleridge, Southey, Scott, and Byron rose to fame, while 1809, the year of his death was that of the births of Alfred Tennyson, Edward FitzGerald, and Gladstone. He wrote much more naturally and in less stilted language than most men of his time.
Smeddum
Edited and introduced by Valentina Bold. This selection of Lewis Grassic Gibbon’s writing brings together old favourites and new material for the first time. There are all his lively contributions to Scottish Scene (co-written by Hugh MacDiarmid) including the unforgettable lilt and flow of his short stories ‘Smeddum’, ‘Clay’, ‘Greendenn’, ‘Sim’ and ‘Forsaken’. The anthology ends with the full text of his last novel, The Speak of the Mearns, unpublished in his lifetime. Valentina Bold has also included a collection of poems, ‘Songs of Limbo’, taken from typescripts in the National Library of Scotland, and a selection of Grassic Gibbon’s articles and short fiction,...
