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Edinburgh University Press The Cultural Memory of Georgian Glasgow
The first interdisciplinary exploration of eighteenth-century Glasgow
£85.00
Edinburgh University Press The Cultural Memory of Georgian Glasgow
The first interdisciplinary exploration of eighteenth-century Glasgow Approaches Glasgow's history as a guide to the cultural memory of the city read through traditional historical and literary analysis Engages with primary sources such as contemporary literature, journalism, and ephemera from a range of institutions and archives Sets out a methodological blueprint for new research into other cities or civic spaces This book provides a long overdue reading of Scotland's largest city as it was during the long eighteenth century. These formative years of Enlightenment, caught between the tumultuous ages of the Reformation and the Industrial Revolution, cast Glasgow in a new and vibrant light. Far from being a dusty metropolis lying in wait for the famous age of shipbuilding, Glasgow was already an imperial hub: as implicated in mass migration and slavery as it was in civic growth and social progression. Craig Lamont incorporates case studies such as the Scottish Enlightenment, the Transatlantic Slave Trade and Eighteenth Century Print Culture to investigate how the city was shaped by the emergence of new trades and new ventures in philosophy, fine art, science, and religion. The book merges historical, literary and memory studies to provide an original blueprint for new research into other cities or civic spaces.
£19.99
Association for Scottish Literary Studies The Poetry and Drama of Allan Ramsay: (Scotnotes Study Guides)
£8.86
John Donald Publishers Ltd 1820: Scottish Rebellion: Essays on a Nineteenth-Century Insurrection
The 1820 Scottish Rising has been increasingly studied in recent decades. This collection of essays looks especially at local players on the ground across multiple regional centres in the west of Scotland, as well as the wider political circumstances within government and civil society that provide the rising’s context. It examines insurrectionist preparation by radicals, the progress of the events of 1820, contemporary accounts and legacy memorialisation of 1820, including newspaper and literary testimony, and the monumental ‘afterlife’ of the rising. As well as the famous march of radicals led by John Baird and Andrew Hardie, so often seen as the centre of the 1820 ‘moment’, this volume casts light on other, more neglected insurrectionary activity within the rising and a wide set of cultural circumstances that make 1820 more complex than many would like to believe. 1820: Scottish Rebellion demonstrates that the legacy of 1820 may be approached in numerous ways that cross disciplinary boundaries and cause us to question conventional historical interpretations.
£100.00