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Psalters --- Campbell family --- Farquhar family --- Bible.
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Volume 1 of this history ended with the chief and his followers dead on Flodden field. Volume 2 describes the Clan's recovery. Within five years Colin, 3rd Earl, was Vice-Regent and Lieutenant of the kingdom. Within five decades the Clan had extended their possessions to the Western Isles, reinforced their Highland dominance, and become the most powerful family in the nation. How they managed to remain so for a century and a half, despite everything history could throw at them, is the subject of Alastair Campbell's fascinating, vivid and well-paced narrative.Religious conflict in Scotland during almost the whole of the period was devastating. The Crown vacillated between Reformed, Episcopal, and Catholic doctrine whether it was based in Edinburgh or, after 1603, in London. With one exception by contrast the Campbell chiefs held firm to the Protestant Reformation. In 1556 Colin, 4th Earl, invited John Knox to preach at Inveraray; 90 years later Archibald, 8th Earl and first Marquess of Argyll, led the Army of the Solemn League and Covenant. Late in the sixteenth century, however, a crack appeared in the remarkable unity of the Clan: a nationwide conspiracy involving the Campbells of Glenorchy, Lochnell, and Ardkinglas, led to the death of the Bonnie Earl of Moray, the murder of Campbell of Cawdor, and two attempts on the life of 'Grim-faced Archie' the 7th Earl who subsequently turned Roman Catholic and in 1617 left to serve the King of Spain. Again, however, the Clan recovered. One of the conspirators, Black Duncan Campbell of Glenorchy, scourge of the MacGregors, even received a royal pardon and a Baronetcy.Alastair Campbell describes the onset of the religious and civil wars in the seventeenth century. The greatest figure in Scotland then was the first Marquess of Argyll, an ardent Protestant, who was pitted against the charismatic cavalier, the Marquess of Montrose. On behalf of church and crown in Scotland each led governments and armies against one another. Montrose was executed in 1650. Argyll was similarly rewarded in 1661, and here the story ends (until volume 3) with the Clan once more imperilled by the crown.The book is illustrated with maps and genealogies, and contains twenty pages of plates, four in colour. Two appendices deal with the substantial body of music associated with the Clan and the Campbell symbolic emblems.
HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain / General. --- Campbell family. --- Scotland --- History.
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Traces the development of a typical British aristocratic family, its estates and its activities over the period when the landed aristocracy was at its height and over the period when the aristocracy had to cope with increasing democratisation.
Gentry --- Aristocracy (Social class) --- Aristocracy --- Aristocrats --- Upper class --- Nobility --- Gentry, Landed --- Landed gentry --- Squires --- History. --- Campbell family. --- Great Britain --- England --- History --- Social conditions
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"The Maine Woods, vast and largely unsettled, are often described as unchanged since Henry David Thoreau's 1847 journey across the backcountry, in spite of the realities of Indian dispossession and the visible signs of logging, settlement, tourism, and real estate development. In the summer of 2014 scholars, indigenous peoples, activists, and other individuals retraced Thoreau's route. Inspired partly by this expedition, the accessible and engaging essays here offer valuable new perspectives on conservation, the cultural ties that connect Native communities to the land, and the profound influence the geography of the Maine Woods had on Thoreau and writers and activists who followed in his wake. Together, these essays offer a rich and multifaceted look at this special place and the ways in which Thoreau's Maine experiences continue to shape understandings of the environment a century and a half later"--
Wilderness areas --- Forest ecology --- Indians of North America --- Human ecology --- Thoreau, Henry David, --- Travel --- Influence. --- Piscataquis County (Me.) --- Maine --- Description and travel. --- Environmental conditions. --- Museums and community --- Collective memory --- Historic buildings --- Campbell family. --- Campbell House Museum (Saint Louis, Mo.) --- History. --- Saint Louis (Mo.) --- Social life and customs
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Early modern historians have theorized about the nature of the new 'British' history for a generation. This study examines how British politics operated in practice during the age of Mary, Queen of Scots, and explains how the crises of the mid-sixteenth century moulded the future political shape of the British Isles. A central figure in these struggles was the fifth earl of Argyll, the most powerful magnate not only at the court of Queen Mary, his sister-in-law, but throughout the three kingdoms. His domination of the Western Highlands and Islands drew him into the complex politics of the north of Ireland, while his Protestant commitment involved him in Anglo-Scottish relations. His actions also helped determine the Protestant allegiance of the British mainland and the political and religious complexion of Ireland. Argyll's career therefore demonstrates both the possibilities and the limitations of British history throughout the early modern period.
Religion and politics --- Politicians --- Nobility --- Religion et politique --- Hommes politiques --- Noblesse --- History --- Biography. --- Histoire --- Biographies --- Argyll, Archibald Campbell, --- Mary, --- Contemporaries. --- Scotland --- Great Britain --- Ireland --- Ecosse --- Grande-Bretagne --- Irlande --- Politics and government --- Politique et gouvernement --- Political science --- Politics, Practical --- Politics and religion --- Religion --- Religions --- Religious aspects --- Political aspects --- Campbell family. --- Mary Stuart, --- Marie Stuart, --- Stuart, Marie, --- Maria Stuart, --- Stuart, Maria, --- Stuart, Mary, --- Maria Stuarda, --- Stuarda, Maria, --- Marii︠a︡ Sti︠u︡art, --- Sti︠u︡art, Marii︠a︡, --- Mary Stewart, --- Stewart, Mary, --- Màiri, --- Stiùbhart, Màiri, --- Màiri Stiùbhart, --- Campbell, Archibald, --- Caledonia --- Scotia --- Schotland --- Sŭkʻotʻŭllandŭ --- Škotska --- Arts and Humanities
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"West of downtown St. Louis sits an 1851 town house that bears no obvious relationship to the monumental architecture, trendy condominiums, and sports stadia of its surroundings. Originally the residence of a fur-trade tycoon and now the Campbell House Museum, the house has been subject to energetic preservation and heritage work for some 130 years. In Taking Possession, Heidi Aronson Kolk explores the complex and sometimes contradictory motivations for safeguarding the house as a site of public memory. Crafting narratives about the past that comforted business elites and white middle-class patrons, museum promoters assuaged concerns about the city's most pressing problems, including racial and economic inequality, segregation and privatization, and the legacies of violence for which St. Louis has been known since Ferguson. Kolk's case study illuminates the processes by which civic pride and cultural solidarity have been manufactured in a fragmented and turbulent city, showing how closely linked acts of memory and forgetting, nostalgia and shame are"--
Museums and community --- Collective memory --- Historic buildings --- Campbell family. --- Campbell House Museum (Saint Louis, Mo.) --- History. --- Saint Louis (Mo.) --- Social life and customs --- Community and museums --- Communities --- Historic houses, etc. --- Historical buildings --- Architecture --- Buildings --- Monuments --- Historic sites --- Collective remembrance --- Common memory --- Cultural memory --- Emblematic memory --- Historical memory --- National memory --- Public memory --- Social memory --- Memory --- Social psychology --- Group identity --- National characteristics --- CHM --- CH Museum (Saint Louis, Mo.) --- St. Louis (Mo.) --- St. Louis --- City of St. Louis (Mo.) --- Sent-Lüis (Mo.) --- Горад Сент-Луіс (Mo.) --- Horad Sent-Luis (Mo.) --- Сэнт-Луіс (Mo.) --- Сейнт Луис (Mo.) --- Seĭnt Luis (Mo.) --- San Luis (Mo.) --- San Luis de Iluenses (Mo.) --- Ciudad de San Luis (Mo.) --- Sankta Luiso (Mo.) --- סנט לואיס (Mo.) --- Sanṭ Luʼis (Mo.) --- Urbs Sancti Ludovici (Mo.) --- Sancti Ludovici (Mo.) --- Sentluisa (Mo.) --- Sent Luisas (Mo.) --- Сент Луис (Mo.) --- セントルイス (Mo.) --- Sentoruisu (Mo.) --- São Luís (Mo.) --- Сент-Луїс (Mo.) --- Sent Loisos (Mo.) --- 圣路易斯 (Mo.) --- Shengluyisi (Mo.) --- Sheng lu yi si (Mo.) --- Sheng Luyisi (Mo.) --- City of Saint Louis (Mo.) --- Lacledes Village (Mo.) --- Mound City (Mo.) --- Pain Court (Mo.) --- Pancore (Mo.) --- Saint Lewis (Mo.) --- Saint Louis City (Mo.) --- Rome of the West (Mo.) --- STL (Mo.) --- Gateway to the West (Mo.) --- Oyster culture --- Farming, Oyster --- Oyster farming --- Bivalve culture --- Environmental conditions --- Law and legislation --- History
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