Death in Modern Scotland, 1855-1955

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in the History and Culture of Scotland | nr. 6
• This interdisciplinary collection draws from the fields of art, literature, social history, demography and legal history, and both architectural and l... Lees meer

Sir David Nairne

Edward Corp

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in the History and Culture of Scotland | nr. 8
• This new and original biography will restore to prominence one of the key figures in Jacobite history. For nearly forty years David Nairne was activel... Lees meer

The Anti-hero's Journey

David Manderson

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in the History and Culture of Scotland | nr. 12
• The adopted son of a Greenock shipyard worker, Alan Sharp became a bestselling novelist, a leading playwright, a record-breaking Hollywood screenwrite... Lees meer

Tradition, Transmission, Transformation

Virginia Blankenhorn

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in the History and Culture of Scotland | nr. 10
• Since World War I, communities of Gaelic-speaking Scotland, characterised by collaborative effort and a robust sense of communal identity, have been t... Lees meer

The Fiction of Brian McCabe and (Scottish) Identity

Jessica Aliaga Lavrijsen

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in the History and Culture of Scotland | nr. 5
• This study is the first monograph on the Scottish writer Brian McCabe. It focuses mainly on McCabe's fiction and on the elements in his writing that a... Lees meer

Death in Scotland

Peter C Jupp, Hilary J Grainger

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in the History and Culture of Scotland | nr. 9
• The fifteen essays gathered in this book probe the multi-facetted role of death in Scottish history and culture. They explore personal fears of death,... Lees meer

Between Categories

Sarah Neely

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in the History and Culture of Scotland | nr. 7
• This book aims to address the lack of sustained attention given to Margaret Tait's large body of work, offering a contextualisation of Tait's films wi... Lees meer

Defining Strains

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in the History and Culture of Scotland | nr. 2
• This volume aims to fill a historical gap in the recent coverage of musical life in Scotland. The seventeenth century in Scotland, as in Europe, was o... Lees meer

Discomfort and Joy

Jonathan Murray

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in the History and Culture of Scotland | nr. 4
• Filmmaker Bill Forsyth is one of the most important and fondly regarded of all living Scottish artists. His filmmaking career, beginning with That Sin... Lees meer

The Flute in Scotland from the Sixteenth to the Eighteenth Century

Elizabeth Ford

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in the History and Culture of Scotland | nr. 11
• It is a generally accepted truth that the flute was unknown in Scotland prior to 1725, and that it was played exclusively by wealthy men. Upon examina... Lees meer

James Kelman

Aaron Kelly

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in the History and Culture of Scotland | nr. 3
• This study argues that the works of the Scottish novelist James Kelman should not be seen as a resigned capitulation to capitalism or an acceptance of... Lees meer

The Girl Who Lived on Her Clothes

Wendy Gordon

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in the History and Culture of Scotland | nr. 14
• Criticized as parsimonious and cruel in the later 1800s, the Poor Law for Scotland was first passed in 1845 as a frankly humanitarian measure in respo... Lees meer

Scotland and Islandness

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in the History and Culture of Scotland | nr. 13
• Scotland's islands are diverse, resourceful and singularly iconic in national and global imaginations of places 'apart' yet readily reached. This coll... Lees meer

James Hogg

Valentina Bold

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in the History and Culture of Scotland | nr. 1
• This book sheds new light on James Hogg, the Scottish poet (1770-1835), going beyond the 'Ettrick Shepherd' stereotype. By focussing on Hogg's poetry ... Lees meer