The Oxford Handbook of Modern Scottish History
Author | : T. M. Devine |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | : 720 |
Release | : 2012-01-26 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0199563691 |
A landmark study which reconsiders in fresh and illuminating ways the classic themes of the nation's history since the sixteenth century, as well as a number of new topics which are only now receiving detailed attention. Places the Scottish experience firmly in an international historical experience.
The Irish in the West of Scotland, 1797-1848
Author | : Martin Mitchell |
Publisher | : Birlinn Ltd |
Total Pages | : 372 |
Release | : 2001-01-01 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 178885411X |
The prevailing historical view of the Catholic Irish in the first half of nineteenth-century Scotland is that they were despised by native workers because of their religion and because most were employed as strike-breakers or low-wage labour. As a result of this hostility, the Catholic immigrants were viewed as a separate isolated community, concerned mainly with Irish and Catholic issues and unable or unwilling to participate in trade unions, strikes and radical reform movements. The Protestant Irish immigrants, on the other hand, were believed to have integrated with little difficulty, mainly because of religious, families and cultural ties with the Scots. This study presents a radically different view. It demonstrates that, whereas some Irish workers were used as a blackleg or cheap labour, others participated in trade unions and strikes alongside native workers, most notably in spinning, weaving and mining industries. The various agitations for political change in the region are analysed, revealing that the Irish – Catholic and Protestant – were significantly involved in all of them. It is also shown that Scottish reformers welcomed, and indeed actively sought, Catholic Irish participation. The campaigns for Catholic emancipation and the repeal of the Act of Union of 1800 are reviewed, as are the attitudes of the Scottish Catholic clergy to the political activities of their overwhelmingly Irish congregations.
William Motherwell's Cultural Politics
Author | : Mary Ellen Brown |
Publisher | : University Press of Kentucky |
Total Pages | : 313 |
Release | : 2021-12-14 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0813189748 |
William Motherwell (1797-1835), journalist, poet, man-of-letters, wit, civil servant, and outspoken conservative, published his anthology of ballads, Minstrelsy: Ancient and Modern, in 1827. His views on authenticity, editorial practice, the nature of oral transmission, and the importance of sung performance—acquired through field collecting—anticipate much later scholarly discourse. Published after the death of Burns and the publication of Scott's Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border, ballads such as those Motherwell collected were one focus of a loose-knit movement that might be designated, cultural nationalism. This interest in preserving relics that suggested a distinctly Scottish culture and nation was one response to the union of the Scottish and English Parliaments in 1707. Mary Ellen Brown's study provides a model for historical ethnography, focusing on an individual and illustrating the multiple ways he was richly embedded in his time and place.
Memories of the Old College of Glasgow
Author | : David Murray |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 348 |
Release | : 1927 |
Genre | : Glasgow (Scotland) |
ISBN | : |