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Climatic Change and Human Society
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 236

Climatic Change and Human Society

Bringing together material from a range of sources, this work offers an appreciation of the way in which climatic changes can interact with society. Examining global environmental issues and problems, it presupposes no scientific knowledge.

Scotland before the Industrial Revolution
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 383

Scotland before the Industrial Revolution

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2014-05-12
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  • Publisher: Routledge

This splendid portrait of medieval and early modern Scotland through to the Union and its aftermath has no current rival in chronological range, thematic scope and richness of detail. Ian Whyte pays due attention to the wide regional variations within Scotland itself and to the distinctive elements of her economy and society; but he also highlights the many parallels between the Scottish experience and that of her neighbours, especially England. The result sets the development of Scotland within its British context and beyond, in a book that will interest and delight far more than Scottish specialists alone.

Migrants, Emigrants and Immigrants
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 248

Migrants, Emigrants and Immigrants

Originally published in 1991, this book covers an usually long time – from the 17th to the 20th Century – and considers the impact of internal migration and immigration (primarily in Britain) as well as emigration to North America, South Africa, New Zealand and Australia. Population movements are now recognized to be an integral part of structural change within society and this book brings together a variety of approaches. Drawing on the findings of historians, geographers and sociologists, the essays highlight areas of concern and illustrate some of the directions research on migration was taking in the early 1990s.

Landscape and History since 1500
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 264

Landscape and History since 1500

Landscape and History explores a complex relationship over the past five centuries. The book is international and interdisciplinary in scope, drawing on material from social, economic and cultural history as well as from geography, archaeology, cultural geography, planning and landscape history. In recent years, as the author points out, there has been increasing interest in, and concern for, many aspects of landscape within British, European and wider contexts. This has included the study of the history, development and changes in our perception of landscape, as well as research into the links between past landscapes and political ideologies, economic and social structures, cartography, art...

The Changing Scottish Landscape, 1500-1800
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 251

The Changing Scottish Landscape, 1500-1800

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Beyond the Finite
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 192

Beyond the Finite

Throughout its long history, and not just as the key aesthetic category for the Romantic Movement, the sublime has created the necessary link between aesthetic and moral judgment, offering the prospect of transcending the limits of measurement, even imagination. The best of science makes genuine claims to the sublime. For in science, as in art, every day brings the entirely new, the extreme, and the unrepresentable. How does one depict negative mass, for example, or the folding of a protein that is contagious? Can one capture emergent phenomena as they emerge? Science is continually faced with describing that which is beyond. This book, through contributions from nine prominent scholars, tac...

Famine in Scotland - the 'Ill Years' of the 1690s
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 232

Famine in Scotland - the 'Ill Years' of the 1690s

This book examines the climatic and economic origins of the last national famine to occur in Scotland, the nature and extent of the crisis which ensued, and what the impact of the famine was upon the population in demographic, economic and social terms. Current published knowledge about the causes, extent, and impact of the famine in Scotland is limited and many conclusions have been speculative in the absence of extensive research. Despite the critical importance of this crisis, one of the four disasters of the 1690s, which are widely acknowledged to have contributed to the economic arguments in favour of the Union of the Parliaments in 1707, the topic has been largely neglected and even un...

Send Back the Money!
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 133

Send Back the Money!

'Send Back the Money!' is a thorough and gripping examination of a fascinating and forgotten aspect of Scottish and American relations and Church history. A seminal period of Abolition activity is exposed by Iain Whyte through a study of the fiery 'Send back the Money!' campaign named after 'the hue and cry of the day' that encapsulated the argument that divided families, communities, and the Free Church itself. This examination of the Free Church's involvement with American Presbyterianism in the nineteenth century reveals the ethical furore caused by a Church wishing to emancipate itself from the religious and civil domination supported by the established religion of the state. The Free Ch...

Scottish Society, 1500-1800
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 316

Scottish Society, 1500-1800

The volume covers many of the most significant themes in pre-industrial Scottish society.

Women in Port
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 462

Women in Port

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2012-09-28
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  • Publisher: BRILL

The practical application of micro-historical approaches in 'Women in Port' helps to re-frame our understanding of women's possibilities in the Atlantic world.