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The story of the Scots who went to Canada, from the 17th century
onwards. In Canada there are nearly as many descendants of Scots as
there are people living in Scotland; almost 5 million Canadians
ticked the "Scottish origin" box in the most recent Canadian
Census. Many Scottish families have friends or relatives in Canada.
Who left Scotland? Why did they leave? What did they do when they
got there? What was their impact on the developing nation?
Thousands of Scots were forced from their homeland, while others
chose to leave, seeking a better life. As individuals, families and
communities, they braved the wild Atlantic Ocean, many crossing in
cramped under-rationed ships, unprepared for the fierce Canadian
winter. And yet Scots went on to lay railroads, found banks and
exploit the fur trade, and helped form the political infrastructure
of modern day Canada. This work follows the pioneers west from Nova
Scotia to the prairie frontier and on to the Pacific coast. It
examines the reasons why so many Scots left their land and
families. The legacy of centuries of trade and communication still
binds the two countries, and Scottish Canadians keep alive the
traditions that crossed the Atlantic with their ancestors.
1745. The year of the final Jacobite uprising. Edward Waverley, a
naïve, aristocratic English soldier is posted to Dundee as part of
the Hanoverian army. He takes leave to visit the castle of his
uncle’s Jacobite friend, Baron Bradwardine, in the lowlands of
Scotland. Wild Highlanders visit the castle, and curiosity gets the
better of Waverley. He travels north into the Scottish Highlands
and the heart of the Jacobite rebellion and its aftermath. Our hero
finds himself caught between the Jacobite clans and the Hanoverian
regime, and between two women – the feisty Flora MacIvor, sister
of the clan chief, and the Baron’s quiet, demure daughter Rose.
This edition of Sir Walter Scott’s classic novel of history and
romance has been expertly reworked for modern audiences by Jenni
Calder.
The map of the United States is peppered with Scottish place-names
and America's telephone directories are filled with surnames
illustrating Scottish ancestry. Increasingly, Americans of Scottish
extraction are visiting Scotland in search of their family history.
All over Scotland and the United States there are clues to the
Scottish-American relationship, the legacy of centuries of trade
and communication as well as that of departure and heritage. The
experiences of Scottish settlers in the United States varied
enormously, as did their attitudes to the lifestyles that they left
behind and those that they began anew once they arrived in North
America. Scots in the USA discusses why they left Scotland, where
they went once they reached the United States, and what they did
when they got there.
Featuring a selection of brand new essays by a group of
accomplished scholars, Arthur Koestler's Fiction and the Genre of
the Novel covers all of Koestler's novels published in his
lifetime, the first book to attempt this in English since Mark
Levene's Arthur Koestler, published thirty-seven years ago. The
team of contributors, with research backgrounds in history,
political science, religious studies, law, linguistics and
journalism besides literature, offers a truly multidisciplinary
take on how Koestler's novels utilize, and at times transcend, the
genre of the novel, and argues for their enduring relevance and
appeal in the twenty-first century, inviting the reader to revisit
and reassess them. With the topics of Koestler's novels including
terrorism, massive migration, espionage, rape trauma, war trauma,
the crisis of faith, propaganda, fake news and the role and
responsibility of intellectuals in major international crises, as
the volume aims to show, these texts are just as topical today, as
they were at the time of their publication.
Existential Edinburgh is a personal journey through a city that has
for centuries inspired many. An exploration, an evocation of the
city's past and present it weaves together personal experience,
memory and history. It takes the reader beyond the city's historic
centre, looking out to surrounding areas that are inseparable from
Edinburgh's story. There are companions on this journey, well-known
figures from the past and the not so well-known.
Kidnapped - Catriona - The Master of Ballantrae - Weir of Hermiston
These four great novels take us deep into Robert Louis Stevenson's
imaginative and bitter-sweet relationship with his native country.
Kidnapped, and its sequel Catriona, are renowned the world over as
supreme stories of adventure and romance. On another level they
also explore the subtle divisions of Scottish history and character
in the eighteenth century, and (some would say) the present day.
The Master of Ballantrae takes a darker and more disturbing turn,
with its tale of rival brothers caught in a webof hatred,
obsession, love and betrayal which draws them to their end in the
frozen wastes of North America. Stevenson's fascination with the
divided nature of the human self (most obviously demonstrated in Dr
Jekyll and Mr Hyde) appears again in the Weir of Hermiston with its
terrible confrontation between a father and his son. With an
unsurpassed combination of physical adventure and psychological
insight, The Scottish Novels have moved and thrilled readers and
writers from Stevenson's contemporaries to the present day.
"I'm not Nebuchadnezzar, and I'm not MacBeth." So who am I?
Chicago, Nairobi, Jerusalem, Cambridge, Edinburgh: the geography of
Jenni Calder's life is as diverse as the ethnic, intellectual and
emotional components. Jenni Calder has spent a lifetime in search
of her identity, first as a daughter and sister, then as a writer,
wife and mother. Not Nebuchadnezzar is a biography of sorts, a
chronicle of the consuming search for that elusive concept known as
'identity'. Highly respected biographer of Robert Louis Stevenson,
poet and historian, Calder has chosen an intriguingly elliptical,
thematic approach to writing her own vividly presented life story.
Keenly observed cameos of people and places abound but although
this moving book is infused with a sense of mischief and fun, at
heart it is a wise contemplation of life. Jenni Calder's retrospect
describes a life well-lived, full of event and achievement, love
and loss, aspiration and frustration. If you know who you are not,
do you then know who you are? Jenni Calder was born Jennifer Rachel
Daiches to a Scottish-born mother and English-born Jewish father in
Chicago, one of America's great melting-pot cities. Not
Nebuchadnezzar traces her journey from then to now. Through this
book, Calder discovers that her true sense of identity can only
develop from finding out who she is not. Here she balances her
multiple identities to throw kaleidoscopic prisms from a single
source - herself.
sland Landfalls * The Wrecker * The Ebb-Tide Driven to the South
Seas by ill health, Stevenson could not close his eyes to the
impact of colonialism, the 'stirabout of epochs and races,
barbarisms and civilisations, virtues and crimes'. Setting his
imaginative writings within the social and political contexts of
his letters and essays from the South Seas, reveals the deepening
and broadening of Stevenson's genius and his growing awareness of
and anger at white exploitation. It was a society in which his love
of adventure, his awareness of the extremes of human nature, and
his fascination with good and evil, could find full release. Tales
of the South Seas gathers together all of Stevenson's South Sea
fiction and a selection of prose and letters provides not only a
vivid portrait of a colourful and exotic world, but also a full and
rounded picture of a superb writer at the height of his powers.
Travels in the Colonies in 1773-1775 Described in the Letters of
William Mylne contains a narrative of the two years that Scottish
architect and engineer William Mylne spent in the American
colonies. The letters included in this volume, written from Mylne's
own pen to his sister Anne and brother Robert, document Mylne's
journeys from his home in Edinburg to the American colonies in
South Carolina, Georgia, Charlestown, and New York. The Georgia
Open History Library has been made possible in part by a major
grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities: Democracy
demands wisdom. Any views, findings, conclusions, or
recommendations expressed in this collection, do not necessarily
represent those of the National Endowment for the Humanities.
Travels in the Colonies in 1773-1775 Described in the Letters of
William Mylne contains a narrative of the two years that Scottish
architect and engineer William Mylne spent in the American
colonies. The letters included in this volume, written from Mylne's
own pen to his sister Anne and brother Robert, document Mylne's
journeys from his home in Edinburg to the American colonies in
South Carolina, Georgia, Charlestown, and New York. The Georgia
Open History Library has been made possible in part by a major
grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities: Democracy
demands wisdom. Any views, findings, conclusions, or
recommendations expressed in this collection, do not necessarily
represent those of the National Endowment for the Humanities.
Naomi Mitchison was born towards the end of the nineteenth century
and grew into an era of change, political, social and sexual. All
of these she embraced and influenced in the course of her long
life. She became a major novelist of the 20th century with such
important novels as The Corn King and The Spring Queen and The Bull
Calves but was also a significant non-fiction author and
journalist. Widely travelled she was based for more than half her
life at Carradale House in Scotland's Kintyre peninsula. From there
she ranged widely across the world, in later life discovering
Botswana (then Bechuanaland) which she adopted as her own and where
she was impatiently present as the Union flag was lowered for the
last time. She had intimate friendships with Doris Lessing, Aldous
Huxley, Stevie Smith, E. M. Foster and many more literary and
political figures, all of whom are discussed in this engrossing
biography.
This book shows how the American wilderness shaped Scottish
experience, imagination and identity. How is the Scottish
imagination shaped by its emigre experience with wilderness and the
extreme? Drawing on journals, emigrant guides, memoirs, letters,
poetry and fiction, this book examines patterns of survival,
defeat, adaptation and response in North America's harshest
landscapes. Most Scots who crossed the Atlantic in the eighteenth
and nineteenth centuries encountered the practical, moral and
cultural challenges of the wilderness, with its many tensions and
contradictions. Jenni Calder explores the effect of these
experiences on the Scots imagination. Associated with displacement
and disappearance, the 'wilderness' was also a source of adventure
and redemption, of exploitation and spiritual regeneration, of
freedom and restriction. An arena of greed, cruelty and
cannibalism, of courage, generosity and mutual understanding, it
brought out the best and the worst of humanity. Did the Scots who
emigrated exchange one extreme for another, or did they discover a
new idea of identity, freedom and landscape? The book draws on a
wide range of Scottish, Canadian and US source material. It
illuminates overlooked aspects of the Scottish diaspora experience.
It extends the frontiers of Scottish history. It relates to current
political, cultural and genealogical concerns.
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