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This book provides a pathway for the New Coastal History. Our
littorals are all too often the setting for climate change and the
political, refugee and migration crises that blight our age. Yet
historians have continued, in large part, to ignore the space
between the sea and the land. Through a range of conceptual and
thematic chapters, this book remedies that. Scotland, a country
where one is never more than fifty miles from saltwater, provides a
platform as regards the majority of chapters, in accounting for and
supporting the clusters of scholarship that have begun to gather
around the coast. The book presents a new approach that is distinct
from both terrestrial and maritime history, and which helps bring
environmental history to the shore. Its cross-disciplinary
perspectives will be of appeal to scholars and students in those
fields, as well as in the environmental humanities, coastal
archaeology, human geography and anthropology.
Coming from the people who brought you Clay's Handbook of
Environmental Health, the Dictionary of Environmental Health will
provide a one stop reference to over 3,000 common, and not so
common terms, concepts, abbreviations, acronyms and a wealth of
supporting data no longer found in most reference books. Suitable
for all environmental and public health students and practitioners,
the Dictionary of Environmental Health is an essential desktop tool
for navigating the huge range of topics for which knowledge is
required in today's management of environmental and public health.
Whilst much recent scholarly work has sought to place early modern
British and Irish history within a broader continental context,
most of this has focused on western or northern Europe. In order to
redress the balance, this new study by David Worthington explores
the connections linking writers and expatriates from the later
Tudor and Stuart kingdoms with the two major dynastic conglomerates
east of the Rhine, the Austrian Habsburg lands and
Poland-Lithuania. Drawing on a variety of sources, including
journals, diaries, letters and travel accounts, the book not only
shows the high level of scholarly interest evidenced within
contemporary English language works about the region, but how many
more British and Irish people ventured there than is generally
recognised. As well as the soldiers, merchants and diplomats one
might expect, we discover more unexpected and colourful characters,
including a polymath Irish moral theologian in Vienna, an orphaned
English poetess in Prague, a Welsh humanist in Cracow, and a
Scottish physician and botanist at the Vasa court in Warsaw. This
examination of the diverse range of Irish, Scottish, Welsh and
English religious, intellectual, political, military and commercial
contacts with central Europe provides not only a more balanced view
of British and Irish history, but also continues the process of
reintegrating the histories of the European regions. Furthermore,
by extending the focus of research beyond widely studied areas,
towards other more illuminating, international aspects, the book
challenges scholars to analyse these networks within less
parochial, and more transnational settings.
Whilst much recent scholarly work has sought to place early modern
British and Irish history within a broader continental context,
most of this has focused on western or northern Europe. In order to
redress the balance, this new study by David Worthington explores
the connections linking writers and expatriates from the later
Tudor and Stuart kingdoms with the two major dynastic conglomerates
east of the Rhine, the Austrian Habsburg lands and
Poland-Lithuania. Drawing on a variety of sources, including
journals, diaries, letters and travel accounts, the book not only
shows the high level of scholarly interest evidenced within
contemporary English language works about the region, but how many
more British and Irish people ventured there than is generally
recognised. As well as the soldiers, merchants and diplomats one
might expect, we discover more unexpected and colourful characters,
including a polymath Irish moral theologian in Vienna, an orphaned
English poetess in Prague, a Welsh humanist in Cracow, and a
Scottish physician and botanist at the Vasa court in Warsaw. This
examination of the diverse range of Irish, Scottish, Welsh and
English religious, intellectual, political, military and commercial
contacts with central Europe provides not only a more balanced view
of British and Irish history, but also continues the process of
reintegrating the histories of the European regions. Furthermore,
by extending the focus of research beyond widely studied areas,
towards other more illuminating, international aspects, the book
challenges scholars to analyse these networks within less
parochial, and more transnational settings.
This book studies the revealing autobiographical sources left by
Rev. James Fraser of Kirkhill (1634-1709), a Gaelic-speaking
scholar, traveller and minister. It examines Fraser's
self-presentation and situates him within his locality, Scotland,
the British Isles and Europe, also incorporating recent
historiography to provide a more comprehensive presentation of the
social, economic and cultural trajectories of the early modern
Highlands. David Worthington focuses on the Scottish Highlands'
strong engagement with Europe and early entanglement with empire.
He challenges the assumption that the north Highlands, in
particular, was sealed off from the rest of the world before
Culloden and he identifies the agency, vitality and resilience of
the people of the Highlands prior to the peripheralisation,
depopulation and under-development that then occurred.
Northern Scotland is an established scholarly journal that has been
in existence since 1972, also available in book format. While it
carries material of a mainly historical nature, from the earliest
times to the modern era, it is a cross-disciplinary publication,
which also addresses cultural, economic, political and geographical
themes relating to the Highlands and Islands and the north-east of
Scotland. It contains substantial articles and book reviews, as
well as interviews and reports of research projects in progress.
This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book
may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages,
poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the
original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We
believe this work is culturally important, and despite the
imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of
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++++ The Bible: An Outgrowth Of Theocratic Life; ATLA Monograph
Preservation Program David Worthington Simon T. & T. Clark,
1886 Bibles; Other Translations; General; Bible; Bible as
literature; Bibles / Other Translations / General; Hebrew
literature
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Title: Equal Shares. A novel.]Publisher: British Library,
Historical Print EditionsThe British Library is the national
library of the United Kingdom. It is one of the world's largest
research libraries holding over 150 million items in all known
languages and formats: books, journals, newspapers, sound
recordings, patents, maps, stamps, prints and much more. Its
collections include around 14 million books, along with substantial
additional collections of manuscripts and historical items dating
back as far as 300 BC.The NOVELS OF THE 18th & 19th CENTURIES
collection includes books from the British Library digitised by
Microsoft. The collection includes major and minor works from a
period which saw the development and triumph of the English novel.
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David; 1896.]. 348 p.; 8 . 012626.k.38.
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imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed
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have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting,
preserving, and promoting the world's literature. Kessinger
Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and
hard-to-find books with something of interest for everyone
Northern Scotland is an established scholarly journal that has been
in existence since 1972. Initially produced by the University of
Aberdeen, and latterly by the UHI Centre for History and Aberdeen
University, it is now being relaunched as a fully peer-reviewed
publication whose editorial board, contributors, reviewers and
referees are drawn from a wide range of experts across the world.
While it carries material of a mainly historical nature, from the
earliest times to the modern era, it is a cross-disciplinary
publication, which also addresses cultural, economic, political and
geographical themes relating to the Highlands and Islands and the
north-east of Scotland. It contains substantial articles and book
reviews, as well as interviews and reports of research projects in
progress.
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