Alistair Moffat was born and bred in the Scottish Borders. A former Director of the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, Director of Programmes at Scottish Television and founder of the Borders Book Festival, he is also the author of a number of highly acclaimed books. From 2011 he was Rector of the University of St Andrews. He has written more than thirty books on Scottish history, and lives in the Scottish Borders.
14 Ebooks por Tom M. Devine
Tom M. Devine: Scotland and the Union 1707-2007
A comprehensive examination of the past, present and future prospects of the Anglo-Scottish Union, this book is written by the cream of the academic talent in modern Scottish history and Scottish pol …
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Tom M. Devine: Recovering Scotland’s Slavery Past
For more than a century and a half the real story of Scotland’s connections to transatlantic slavery has been lost to history and shrouded in myth. There was even denial that the Scots unlike the Eng …
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€28.26
Tom M. Devine & Angela McCarthy: New Scots
This is the first wide-ranging, cross-disciplinary overview of immigration to Scotland in recent history and its impact on both the newcomers and the host society. It examines key themes relating to …
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€28.18
Tom M. Devine & Angela McCarthy: New Scots
This is the first wide-ranging, cross-disciplinary overview of immigration to Scotland in recent history and its impact on both the newcomers and the host society. It examines key themes relating to …
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€28.41
Tom M. Devine: Recovering Scotland’s Slavery Past
For more than a century and a half the real story of Scotland’s connections to transatlantic slavery has been lost to history and shrouded in myth. There was even denial that the Scots unlike the Eng …
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€28.24
Alistair Moffat: The Night Before Morning
June 1945. Hitler has triumphed, Britain is under German occupation and America cowers under the threat of nuclear attack. In the dead of night, a figure flits through the ruins of Dryburgh Abbey, se …
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€8.39
John R. Young & Tom M. Devine: Eighteenth Century Scotland
This impressive collection of essays is based on a two-year seminar series of the Research centre in Scottish History at the University of Strathclyde. New and original research, as well as historiog …
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€36.00
Tom M. Devine: Clearance and Improvement
Social and economic changes included an increase in production of food and raw materials, in turn sustaining the remarkable growth of towns and cities over this period. However, in the folk memory of …
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Tom M. Devine: Conflict and Stability in Scottish Society, 1700-1850
Between the early eighteenth and the middle decades of the nineteenth century, Scottish society was transformed by industrialisation, urbanisation and major changes in agriculture and rural society. …
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€30.00
Tom M. Devine: The Great Highland Famine
The Great Hunger in nineteenth-century Ireland was a major human tragedy of modern times. Almost a million perished and a further two million emigrated in the wake of potato blight and economic colla …
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€29.99
Tom M. Devine: Irish Immigrants and Scottish Society in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries
The Irish were the single largest group of immigrants to Scotland in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, and the original settlers and their descendants have had a major impact on modern Scottish …
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€30.00
Tom M. Devine & David Hesse: Scotland and Poland
This collection of essays explores more than five centuries of Scottish-Polish interactions. It focuses on the two main moments of contact: the early modern experiences of Scottish pedlars, merchants …
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€15.59
Tom M. Devine: Transformation of Scotland
This is the first comprehensive history of the Scottish economy over the last three centuries to appear in a generation. Written by leading scholars in the field, it presents ‘state of the art’ resea …
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€39.53
Tom M. Devine & Paddy Logue: Being Scottish
The question ‘who are we?’ continues to perplex many Scots today. The 100 short essays in this book help to expand the debate and provide at least some of the answers. They offer an opportunity to pe …
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€23.10
