Author: Patrick Griffin
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Keywords: scots, creation, british, atlantic, world, irish, america, name, ireland, ulster, people
Number of Pages: 256
Published: 2001-11-01
List price: $28.95
ISBN-10: 0691074623
ISBN-13: 9780691074627
More than 100,000 Ulster Presbyterians of Scottish origin migrated to the American colonies in the six decades prior to the American Revolution, the largest movement of any group from the British Isles to British North America in the eighteenth century. Drawing on a vast store of archival materials, The People with No Name is the first book to tell this fascinating story in its full, transatlantic context. It explores how these people--whom one visitor to their Pennsylvania enclaves referred to as ’’a spurious race of mortals known by the appellation Scotch-Irish’’--dre
Author: not known
Publisher: Adamant Media Corporation
Keywords: navy, scots, old
Number of Pages: 520
Published: 2005-11-30
List price: $19.99
ISBN-10: 1402139055
ISBN-13: 9781402139055
This Elibron Classics edition is a facsimile reprint of a 1914 edition by the Navy Records Society, London.
Author: Charles Jones
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Keywords: language, scots, history, edinburgh
Number of Pages: 689
Published: 1997-10
List price: $78.00
ISBN-10: 0748607544
ISBN-13: 9780748607549
This is the first full scale attempt to record the diachronic development of this important English language variety and includes extensive essays by some of the foremost international scholars of the Scots language. The book attempts to provide a detailed and technical description of the syntax, phonology, morphology and vocabulary of the language in two main periods: the beginnings to 1700 and from 1700 to the present day. The language’s geographical variation both in the past and at the present time are fully documented and the sociolinguistic forces which lie behind linguistic innov
Author: Charles Grant
Publisher: Osprey Publishing
Keywords: men, greys, scots, royal
Number of Pages: 48
Published: 1972-06-15
List price: $15.95
ISBN-10: 0850450594
ISBN-13: 9780850450590
This book examines the uniforms, equipment, history and organisation of the Royal Scots Greys, covering their combat experience from Marlborough’s wars to World War 2. The regiment’s service in the Napoleonic Wars, the Crimea and World War I are also covered. Uniforms are shown in colour artwork.
Author: Jeffrey Skoblow
Publisher: University of Delaware Press
Keywords: contradiction, burns, scots, tongue, dooble
Number of Pages: 268
Published: 2001-01
List price: $44.00
ISBN-10: 0874137284
ISBN-13: 9780874137286
’Dooble Tongue’ is an imaginative meditation on Robert Burns and Scottish poetry, as well as a book that engages and contests the customary assumptions and practices of literary criticism. Beginning with an examination of two contemporary Scottish poets, W.N. Herbert and Robert Crawford, and moving back in time to the Scottish Modernist master Hugh MacDiarmid, then further back to Burns himself, the study of the Scottish tradition is situated in a broad historical context. The focus throughout is on language (particularly Scots), more broadly vernacular literature in relation to cu
Author: John Guy
Publisher: Mariner Books
Keywords: mary, stuart, life, true, scots, queen
Number of Pages: 608
Published: 2005-10-12
List price: $16.95
ISBN-10: 0618619178
ISBN-13: 9780618619177
National Book Critics Circle Award finalistA triumph . . . a masterpiece full of fire and tragedy.” Amanda Foreman, author of GeorgianaIn the first full-scale biography of Mary Stuart in more than thirty years, John Guy creates an intimate and absorbing portrait of one of history’s greatest women, depicting her world and her place in the sweep of history with stunning immediacy. Bringing together all surviving documents and uncovering a trove of new sources for the first time, Guy dispels the popular image of Mary Queen of Scots as a romantic leading lady achieving her ends through
Author: Dobson
Publisher: Clearfield
Keywords: states, baltic, russia, poland, scots
Number of Pages: 176
Published: 2009-06-01
List price: $22.50
ISBN-10: 0806349972
ISBN-13: 9780806349978
This is a consolidated reprint of two pamphlets by Mr. David Dobson that shed light on an additional 1,100 Irish men and women and their families who emigrated to North America between roughly 1775 and 1825. The volume thereby adds to the list of 1,000 men and women compiled by Mr. Dobson in three earlier pamphlets in this series. The persons named in Irish Emigrants in North America, Parts Four and Five, were found primarily in contemporary newspapers in Canada and the United States.
