Charts the evolution of Scotland from a medieval and feudal to a modern, professional polity, and the transformation of its church and religious life from catholic to protestant.
This collection of essays explores how the 2014 Scottish referendum was presented in the media not only in Scotland but elsewhere in the United Kingdom, in Europe and beyond.
How the American wilderness shaped Scottish experience, imagination and identity
How is the Scottish imagination shaped by its émigré 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?
Key Features:The book draws on a wide range of Scottish, Canadian and US source materialIlluminates overlooked aspects of the Scottish diaspora experienceExtends the frontiers of Scottish historyRelates to current political, cultural and genealogical concerns
This book is written specially for students of Scots commercial law and business law by the experts at the Law School at the University of Glasgow. Each chapter has been contributed by an author with ...particular expertise in that area. Part I puts the subject in context and Part II covers the main areas covered in commercial law courses.
This book explores the settlement and development of Muslim communities in Scotland, highlighting the ongoing changes in their structure and the move towards a Scottish experience of being Muslim.
