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The Invention of Scotland: The Stuart Myth and the Scottish Identity, 1638 to the Present

Product Description: A dynasty of high ability and great charm, the Stuarts exerted a compelling fascination over their supporters and enemies alike. First published in 1991, this title assesses the influence of the Stuart mystique on the modern political and cultural identity of Scotland...read more

By Murray G. H. Pittock

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9781138813151 | Routledge, July 15, 2014, cover price $155.00 | About this edition: A dynasty of high ability and great charm, the Stuarts exerted a compelling fascination over their supporters and enemies alike.

9780415055864 | Routledge, October 1, 1991, cover price $69.95 | About this edition: A dynasty of high ability and great charm, the Stuarts exerted a compelling fascination over their supporters and enemies alike.

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9781138813267 | Reprint edition (Routledge, February 4, 2016), cover price $48.95 | About this edition: A dynasty of high ability and great charm, the Stuarts exerted a compelling fascination over their supporters and enemies alike.

Scotland 2014 and Beyond: Coming of Age and Loss of Innocence?

Product Description: Engineer and Vietnam vet Paul Crane finds himself once again recruited by the CIA, this time to pretend he'll negotiate the sale of classified information on nuclear weapons to Chinese infiltrators. The CIA doesn't want the FBI to know of this domestic operation, which means Paul is practically on his own in this high-stakes and dangerous game...read more

By Klaus-Peter Muller (editor)

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9780441710928, titled "Red Dragon" | Ace Books, November 1, 1985, cover price $2.95 | also contains Red Dragon | About this edition: Engineer and Vietnam vet Paul Crane finds himself once again recruited by the CIA, this time to pretend he'll negotiate the sale of classified information on nuclear weapons to Chinese infiltrators.

Scotland and Beyond 2014: Coming of Age and Loss of Innocence?

Product Description: This book examines Scotland from a great variety of international and disciplinary perspectives, offering viewpoints from ordinary citizens as well as experts in culture, history, literature, sociology, politics, the law, and the media...read more

By Klaus-Peter Muller (editor)

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9783631655719 | Peter Lang Pub Inc, February 25, 2015, cover price $106.95 | About this edition: This book examines Scotland from a great variety of international and disciplinary perspectives, offering viewpoints from ordinary citizens as well as experts in culture, history, literature, sociology, politics, the law, and the media.

Dante's Lyric Poetry: Poems of Youth and of the Vita Nuova (1283-1292)

By Teodolinda Barolini (editor), Andrew Frisardi (trans) and Richard Lansing (trans)

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9780333567609, titled "Medieval Scotland: The Making of an Identity" | St Martins Pr, June 1, 1997, cover price $20.10 | also contains Dante's Lyric Poetry: Poems of Youth and of the Vita Nuova 1283-1292, Medieval Scotland: The Making of an Identity

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9780333567616, titled "Medieval Scotland: The Making of an Identity" | Waterlow Pub Ltd, May 1, 1998, cover price $10.01 | also contains Dante's Lyric Poetry: Poems of Youth and of the Vita Nuova 1283-1292, Medieval Scotland: The Making of an Identity

Dante's Lyric Poetry: Poems of Youth and of the Vita Nuova 1283-1292

By Teodolinda Barolini (editor), Dante Alighieri, Andrew Frisardi (trans) and Richard Lansing (trans)

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9781442648401, titled "Dante's Lyric Poetry: Poems of Youth and of the Vita Nuova (1283-1292)" | Univ of Toronto Pr, September 24, 2014, cover price $85.00

9780333567609, titled "Medieval Scotland: The Making of an Identity" | St Martins Pr, June 1, 1997, cover price $20.10 | also contains Dante's Lyric Poetry: Poems of Youth and of the Vita Nuova (1283-1292), Medieval Scotland: The Making of an Identity

Paperback:

9781442626195 | Univ of Toronto Pr, September 23, 2014, cover price $39.95

9780333567616, titled "Medieval Scotland: The Making of an Identity" | Waterlow Pub Ltd, May 1, 1998, cover price $10.01 | also contains Dante's Lyric Poetry: Poems of Youth and of the Vita Nuova (1283-1292), Medieval Scotland: The Making of an Identity

Tourism and National Identity: Heritage and Nationhood in Scotland

Product Description: This book explores the role of tourism as a means to express 'nation' and 'nationhood'. Based on field research in southwest and central Scotland it shows how various historical accounts, cultural icons and images, events and celebrations create a meaning of the Scottish nation...read more

By Kalyan Bhandari

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9781845414481 | Channel View Books, July 15, 2014, cover price $139.95 | About this edition: This book explores the role of tourism as a means to express 'nation' and 'nationhood'.

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9781845414474 | Channel View Books, July 15, 2014, cover price $44.95 | About this edition: This book explores the role of tourism as a means to express 'nation' and 'nationhood'.

The Mark of the Scots: Their Astonishing Contributions to History, Science, Democracy, Literature, and the Arts

Celebrates the accomplishments of Scots and people of Scottish descent, from Immanuel Kant to Elvis Presley

By Duncan A. Bruce

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9781559723565 | Birch Lane Pr, September 1, 1996, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: Celebrates the accomplishments of Scots and people of Scottish descent, from Immanuel Kant to Elvis Presley

9780314008053, titled "Treatise on Constitutional Law: Substance and Procedure : Sections 18.1 to 19.40" | West Pub Co, August 1, 1992, cover price $106.25 | also contains Treatise on Constitutional Law: Substance and Procedure : Sections 18.1 to 19.40

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9781629141947 | Skyhorse Pub Co Inc, July 1, 2014, cover price $19.95

9780806520605 | Citadel Pr, July 1, 1998, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: Celebrates the accomplishments of Scots and people of Scottish descent, from Immanuel Kant to Elvis Presley

The Ultimate Guide to Being Scottish: Put Your First Foot Forward

Product Description: What makes the Ultimate Scot? Is it the ability to identify a tartan pattern from 50 yards? Maybe it's being able to recite the two forgotten verses of Auld Lang Syne? Or perhaps it's knowing your single malt from a double malt? The Ultimate Guide to Being Scottish examines in hilarious detail the history, politics and traditions that make Scots great...read more

By Clark Mcginn

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9781908373069 | 2 revised edition (Luath Pr, November 25, 2014), cover price $18.95 | About this edition: What makes the Ultimate Scot?

9781906307813 | Luath Pr, May 1, 2009, cover price $17.95 | About this edition: What makes the Ultimate Scot?

The Scots Imagination and Modern Memory

Product Description: Andrew Blaikie explores how different, but connected, ways of seeing infuse relationships between place and belonging. He argues that all memories, whether fleeting glimpses or elaborate narratives, invoke imagined pasts, be these of tenement life, island cultures, vanished moralities, even the origins of social science...read more

By Andrew Blaikie

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9780748617876 | Reprint edition (Edinburgh Univ Pr, August 31, 2013), cover price $39.95 | About this edition: Andrew Blaikie explores how different, but connected, ways of seeing infuse relationships between place and belonging.

The Fiction of Brian Mccabe and (Scottish) Identity

By Jessica Aliaga Lavrijsen

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9783034308304 | Peter Lang Pub Inc, June 19, 2013, cover price $69.95

Scottishness and Irishness in New Zealand Since 1840

Product Description: This book examines the distinctive aspects that insiders and outsiders perceived as characteristic of Irish and Scottish ethnic identities in New Zealand. When, how, and why did Irish and Scots identify themselves and others in ethnic terms? What characteristics did the Irish and the Scots attribute to themselves and what traits did others assign to them? Did these traits change over time and if so how? Contemporary interest surrounding issues of ethnic identities is vibrant...read more

By Angela Mccarthy

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9780719077616 | Manchester Univ Pr, January 15, 2011, cover price $95.00 | About this edition: This book examines the distinctive aspects that insiders and outsiders perceived as characteristic of Irish and Scottish ethnic identities in New Zealand.

Coin, Kirk, Class and Kin: Emigration, Social Change and Identity in Southern Scotland

Product Description: There are many detailed accounts of nineteenth-century emigrants, of their journeys and settlements abroad - but what of those they left behind? This book delves into the heart of Georgian Britain to explore the role that the men and women of the Scottish Borders played in the mass emigration of the early nineteenth century...read more

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9783034302524 | Peter Lang Pub Inc, March 17, 2011, cover price $60.95 | About this edition: There are many detailed accounts of nineteenth-century emigrants, of their journeys and settlements abroad - but what of those they left behind?

Being a Scot

Product Description: Although he is anÂ international superstar, Sean Connery still knows the city of Edinburgh practically street by street from delivering the morning milk as a schoolboy.Â In thisÂ vivid and highly personal portrait of Scotland and its achievements,Â ConneryÂ shines aÂ light upon both his own upbringing an the successes and failures ofÂ Scotland's long and storied history...read more

By Murray Grigor

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9780753826317 | Phoenix, February 17, 2010, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: Although he is anÂ international superstar, Sean Connery still knows the city of Edinburgh practically street by street from delivering the morning milk as a schoolboy.

Loyalty and Identity: Jacobites at Home and Abroad

Product Description: This collection of essays provides a series of fresh approaches to a fascinating subject: Jacobitism. The contributors focus on issues of identity and memory among Jacobites in Scotland, Ireland, England and Europe. They examine Jacobitism as an integral aspect of culture and society in the British Isles and beyond during the century after 1688...read more

By Daniel Szechi (editor)

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9780230222571 | Palgrave Macmillan, January 15, 2010, cover price $115.00 | About this edition: This collection of essays provides a series of fresh approaches to a fascinating subject: Jacobitism.

The Scots Imagination and Modern Memory: Representations of Belonging in a Changing Nation

Product Description: What are the connections between the representations of people, places, and the past in Scottish visual culture? Visions of nation and community between the late-eighteenth and mid-twentieth centuries reflect the impact of modernity on the Scottish social imaginary...read more

By Andrew Blaikie

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9780748617869 | Edinburgh Univ Pr, May 30, 2010, cover price $95.00 | About this edition: What are the connections between the representations of people, places, and the past in Scottish visual culture?

Transport and Communications

Product Description: Exploring a variety of topics on the broad theme of transport and communications in Scotland, this multiauthored volume covers a wide chronological and geographical range, including Gaelic barges of the medieval western seaboard and the aviation of the Northern Isles...read more

By Kenneth Veitch (editor)

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9781904607885 | Birlinn Ltd, July 1, 2009, cover price $89.95 | About this edition: Exploring a variety of topics on the broad theme of transport and communications in Scotland, this multiauthored volume covers a wide chronological and geographical range, including Gaelic barges of the medieval western seaboard and the aviation of the Northern Isles.

Scotland as We Know It: Representations of National Identity in Literature, Film and Popular Culture

Product Description: Spanning more than 100 years of cultural history, this book examines the ways that representations of Scottish identity in Scotland and abroad have influenced and responded to the rapid changes of modernity since 1890. Popular representations of Scottish national, ethnic, and cultural identity are in abundance not only in Scotland, but also in the United States, Canada, and throughout the Anglophone settler nations of the world...read more

By Richard Zumkhawala-cook

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9780786440313 | McFarland & Co Inc Pub, November 30, 2008, cover price $35.00 | About this edition: Spanning more than 100 years of cultural history, this book examines the ways that representations of Scottish identity in Scotland and abroad have influenced and responded to the rapid changes of modernity since 1890.

Being a Scot

By Teresa Monachino (contributor)

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9780297855408 | Orion Pub Co, August 21, 2008, cover price $32.95 | About this edition: Although he is anÂ international superstar, Sean Connery still knows the city of Edinburgh practically street by street from delivering the morning milk as a schoolboy.

How the Scots Invented the Modern World: The True Story of How Western Europe's Poorest Nation Created Our World & Everything in It

Explores the seminal contributions of Scotland to the development of modern Western civilization, discussing the impact of such ideals as democracy, freedom of speech, equal opportunity, and a commitment to education.

By Arthur Herman

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9780609809990 | Reprint edition (Broadway Books, September 1, 2002), cover price $17.00 | About this edition: Explores the seminal contributions of Scotland to the development of modern Western civilization, discussing the impact of such ideals as democracy, freedom of speech, equal opportunity, and a commitment to education.

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9780307420954, titled "How the Scots Invented the Modern World: The True Story of How Western Europe's Poorest Nation Created Our World and Everything in It" | Crown Pub, December 18, 2007, cover price $16.00

Changing Identities, Ancient Roots: The History of West Dunbartonshire from Earliest Times

Aims to place developments in the region of West Dunbartonshire in the context of the larger national - and indeed international - historical developments to which they contribute and which they may illustrate.

By Ian Brown (editor)

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9780748625604 | Edinburgh Univ Pr, March 1, 2007, cover price $130.00 | About this edition: The aim of this book is to place developments in the region of West Dunbartonshire, that is, the area covered by Clydebank, Dumbarton and the Vale of Leven running up to the southern end of Loch Lomond, in the context of the larger national - and indeed international - historical developments to which they contribute and which they may illustrate.

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9780748625611 | Edinburgh Univ Pr, March 15, 2007, cover price $37.95 | About this edition: Aims to place developments in the region of West Dunbartonshire in the context of the larger national - and indeed international - historical developments to which they contribute and which they may illustrate.

Geography, Science And National Identity: Scotland Since 1520

By Charles W. J. Withers

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9780521642026 | Cambridge Univ Pr, February 1, 2002, cover price $124.99

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9780521024822 | 1 edition (Cambridge Univ Pr, March 20, 2006), cover price $79.99

Global Scots: Voices from Afar

Looking at the fascinating lives of a fraction of Scotland's expat community, this book explores how they feel about: their home country that helped shape them, the motivations they had for moving away, and the perspectives (both good and bad) that distance has lent them of the land they left behind.

By Kenny Macaskill and Henry McLeish

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9781905222377 | Luath Pr, March 20, 2006, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: Looking at the fascinating lives of a fraction of Scotland's expat community, this book explores how they feel about: their home country that helped shape them, the motivations they had for moving away, and the perspectives (both good and bad) that distance has lent them of the land they left behind.

They Called Me Otherwise: Stories of Growing Up in Africa, Scotland And Canada

Product Description: The Scots conquered the worldâthey just forgot to tell anyone about it. Bill Gallowayâs book, They Called Me Otherwise, remedies that situation. Packed with humour and wisdom, it is at once a set of lighthearted anecdotes, an exemplary story of the Scots diaspora and an autobiography that shows how one man overcame the obstacles set against him...read more

By Bill Galloway

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9781894694377 | Granville Island Pub, May 31, 2005, cover price $11.95 | About this edition: The Scots conquered the worldâthey just forgot to tell anyone about it.

Extremely Common Eloquence: Constructing Scottish Identity Through Narrative

Product Description: Extremely Common Eloquence presents a detailed analysis of the narrative and rhetorical skills employed by working-class Scots in talking about important aspects of their lives. The wide range of devices employed by the speakers and the high quality of the examples provide convincing evidence to reject any possible negative evaluation of working-class speech on the basis of details of non-standard pronunciation and grammar...read more

By Ronald K. S. MacAulay

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9789042017641 | Rodopi Bv Editions, February 28, 2005, cover price $96.00 | About this edition: Extremely Common Eloquence presents a detailed analysis of the narrative and rhetorical skills employed by working-class Scots in talking about important aspects of their lives.

Scottish Nationality

Product Description: The changes begun by the devolution referendum of 1997 have caused interest and concern throughout Britain. What seemed a remote and abstract question to many has, in the last few years, struck at the heart of the issue of what Britain is - and it is increasingly clear that things will never be the same again...read more

By Murray Pittock

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9780333726631 | Palgrave Macmillan, September 8, 2001, cover price $135.00

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9780333726648 | Macmillan Pub Ltd, December 30, 2004, cover price $15.99 | About this edition: The changes begun by the devolution referendum of 1997 have caused interest and concern throughout Britain.

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