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  • Eighteenth Century Scotland

    New Perspectives

    This impressive collection of essays is based on a two-year seminar series of the Research centre in Scottish History at the University of Strathclyde. New and original research, as well as historiographical overviews and commentaries, illuminate the study of this formative century in the creation of modern Scotland. Contributors are leading figures in their fields, and the Scottish experience is ... Leer más

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  • Clearance and Improvement

    Land, Power and People in Scotland, 1700-1900

    de Tom M. Devine ...
    Social and economic changes included an increase in production of food and raw materials, in turn sustaining the remarkable growth of towns and cities over this period. However, in the folk memory of Scotland the social and cultural costs of the revolution loom much larger: the loss of land for many thousands of families; the rise of individualism and the decline of neighborhood; the death of old ... Leer más

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  • Irish Immigrants and Scottish Society in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries

    Proceedings of the Scottish Historical Studies Seminar, University of Strathclyde, 1989/90

    Edición de Tom M. Devine ...
    The Irish were the single largest group of immigrants to Scotland in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, and the original settlers and their descendants have had a major impact on modern Scottish society, culture and politics. This book of original studies is the first major reassessment of the general effect of Irish immigration on Scotland since the classic works of James Handley during the ... Leer más

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  • The Great Highland Famine

    Hunger, Emigration and the Scottish Highlands in the Nineteenth Century

    de Tom M. Devine ...
    The Great Hunger in nineteenth-century Ireland was a major human tragedy of modern times. Almost a million perished and a further two million emigrated in the wake of potato blight and economic collapse. Acute famine also gripped the Scottish Highlands at the same time, causing misery, hardship and distress. The story of that lesser known human disaster is told in this prize-winning and ... Leer más

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  • Conflict and Stability in Scottish Society, 1700-1850

    Edición de Tom M. Devine ...
    Between the early eighteenth and the middle decades of the nineteenth century, Scottish society was transformed by industrialisation, urbanisation and major changes in agriculture and rural society. The rate of town and city growth was among the fastest in western Europe, migration and emigration accelerated and the traditional way of life in the Highland and Lowland countryside was brought to an ... Leer más

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  • Independence or Union

    Scotland's Past and Scotland's Present

    de T. M. Devine ...
    There can be no relationship in Europe's history more creative, significant, vexed and uneasy than that between Scotland and England. From the Middle Ages onwards the island of Britain has been shaped by the unique dynamic between Edinburgh and London, exchanging inhabitants, monarchs, money and ideas, sometimes in a spirit of friendship and at others in a spirit of murderous dislike.Tom Devine's ... Leer más

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  • Polymer-Based Additive Manufacturing

    Biomedical Applications

    Edición de Declan M. Devine ...
    This book aims to give readers a basic understanding of commonly used additive manufacturing techniques as well as the tools to fully utilise the strengths of additive manufacturing through the modelling and design phase all the way through to post processing. Guidelines for 3D-printed biomedical implants are also provided. Current biomedical applications of 3D printing are discussed, including ... Leer más

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  • The Scottish Experience in Asia, c.1700 to the Present

    Settlers and Sojourners

    Edición de T. M. Devine, Angela McCarthy ...
    Series series History (R0)
    This pioneering volume focuses on the scale, territorial trajectories, impact, economic relationships, identity and nature of the Scottish-Asia connection from the late seventeenth century to the present. It is especially concerned with identifying whether there was a distinctive Scottish experience and if so, what effect it had on the East. Did Scots bring different skills to Asia and how far did ... Leer más

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  • Vietnam at 24 Frames a Second

    A Critical and Thematic Analysis of 360 Films About the Vietnam War

    Beginning in 1948 with Paramount's Saigon and Universal's Rogue's Regiment, Hollywood has produced hundreds of features and made-for-television films about Vietnam and the ensuing conflict. With the exception of The Green Berets (1968), few were designed to rally Americans to the cause as earlier war movies had done. Many were not even combat films, instead dealing with such domestic issues as ... Leer más

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  • Scotland and the British Empire

    Edición de John M. MacKenzie, T. M. Devine ...
    Series series Oxford History of the British Empire Companion Series
    The extraordinary influence of Scots in the British Empire has long been recognized. As administrators, settlers, temporary residents, professionals, plantation owners, and as military personnel, they were strikingly prominent in North America, the Caribbean, Australasia, South Africa, India, and colonies in South-East Asia and Africa. Throughout these regions they brought to bear distinctive ... Leer más

    $34.99 USD