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Clergyman, schoolmaster and writer on aesthetics, William Gilpin (1724-1804) is best known for his works on the picturesque. In his Essay on Prints, published in 1768 and reissued in this series, he defined picturesque as 'a term expressive of that peculiar kind of beauty, which is agreeable in a picture'. First published in 1789, this two-volume work forms part of a series which records his reflections on the picturesque across British landscapes. It traces the journey he made in 1776, equipped with notebook and sketching materials, exploring the landscape of the Scottish Highlands via northern England, Edinburgh and Glasgow. Reproductions of his pen-and-wash drawings are included. The companion volumes of Gilpin's Observations on other parts of Britain are also reissued in the Cambridge Library Collection. Volume 2 of the present work covers the journey from Loch Fyne to Keswick, taking in sites such as Loch Lomond and Dumbarton Rock.

Scotland --- Highlands (Scotland) --- England --- Description and travel --- Highlands of Scotland (Scotland) --- Scottish Highlands (Scotland)

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Ein mitreißender Liebesroman vor der wildromantischen Kulisse der schottischen Highlands. Schottland 1685: Als durch den Rauch und die Flammen des brennenden Klosters ein berittener Krieger auf sie zuprescht, ist Lady Davina Montgomery sicher, dass dies ihr letzter Augenblick auf Erden ist. Doch statt eines englischen Angreifers taucht der Highlander Robert MacGregor vor ihr auf und trägt sie auf seinen starken Armen in Sicherheit. Mit dem Kloster auch ihrer Zuflucht beraubt, ist Robert plötzlich ihr einziger Verbündeter. Nur lassen seine verführerischen Blicke sie beinahe vergessen, dass i

Romances --- Chivalric romances --- Chivalry --- Courtly romances --- French romances --- Medieval romances --- Romances, French --- Romans courtois --- French literature --- Literature, Medieval --- Highlands (Scotland) --- Highlands of Scotland (Scotland) --- Scottish Highlands (Scotland)

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This new approach to Highland history before the Clearances draws attention to little-studied yet important economic and social processes within the Highland clan system and argues that we should consider the problems of traditional Highland society, economy and environment together. Exploring how the different aspects of the clan system - chiefs and kinsmen, landlords and tenants, farming systems, production strategies and marketing - changed between the 16th-18th centuries, it shows how the character and ideology of clans and chiefdoms are inextricably part of the twin problems of socio-political control and food production. Shifting the emphasis away from depictions of Highland society as lawless and disorganised, this is a welcome antidote to the many romanticised views of pre-Clearance society.Prize Winner! Honorable Mention - Frank Watson Scottish History Prize 1999

Land tenure --- Agrarian tenure --- Feudal tenure --- Freehold --- Land ownership --- Land question --- Landownership --- Tenure of land --- Land use, Rural --- Real property --- Land, Nationalization of --- Landowners --- Serfdom --- History. --- Highlands (Scotland) --- Highlands of Scotland (Scotland) --- Scottish Highlands (Scotland) --- Social conditions. --- Economic conditions.

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Can Scotland be considered an English colony? Is its experience and literature comparable to that of overseas postcolonial countries? Or are such comparisons no more than victimology to mask Scottish complicity in the British Empire and justify nationalism? These questions have been heatedly debated in the aftermath of the 2014 referendum on independence and amid a continuing campaign for more autonomy. Gaelic Scotland in the Colonial Imagination offers an introduction to the emerging field of postcolonial Scottish studies, assessing both its potential and limitations to promote further interdisciplinary dialogue. Accessible to readers from various backgrounds, the book combines overviews of theoretical, social, and cultural contexts with detailed case studies of literary and nonliterary texts. Silke Stroh shows how the image of Scotland's Gaelic margins changed under the influence of the emergence of the modern nation-state and the rise of overseas colonialism.

Postcolonialism in literature. --- Celts in literature. --- Scottish literature --- Scots literature --- British literature --- History and criticism. --- Literature --- Celts --- Gaels --- Postcolonialism --- Scotland --- Scottish Gaelic --- Scottish Highlands --- Scottish Lowlands --- Scottish people --- Waverley (novel)

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This book probes the deep-rooted links between the land, the people and the religious culture of the Scottish Highlands and Islands in the nineteenth century. The responses of the clergy to the social crisis which enveloped the region have often been characterised as a mixture of callous indifference, cowering deference or fatalistic passivity. Allan MacColl's pioneering research challenges such stereotypical representations of Highland ministers head-on. Land, Faith and the Crofting Community is the first full-scale examination of Christian social teaching in the nineteenth-century Gaidhealta

Church and social problems --- Crofters --- Land reform --- Agrarian reform --- Economic policy --- Land use, Rural --- Social policy --- Agriculture and state --- Tenant farmers --- Christianity and social problems --- Social problems and Christianity --- Social problems and the church --- Social problems --- History --- Highlands (Scotland) --- Highlands of Scotland (Scotland) --- Scottish Highlands (Scotland) --- Church history --- Social conditions