Title:
British subjects an anthropology of Britain / edited by Nigel Rapport.
Author:
Rapport, Nigel, 1956-
ebrary, Inc.
General Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
pt. 1. Introduction -- pt. 2. Nationalism, constestation and the performance of tradition -- pt. 3. Strategies of modernity : heritage, leisure, dissociation -- pt. 4. The appropriation of discourse -- pt. 5. Methodologies and ethnomethodologies -- pt. 6. The making (and unmaking) of community : ethnicity, religiosity, locality -- pt. 7. Epilogue.
Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2013. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.
Publisher:
Berg,
Publication Place:
Oxford :
ISBN:
1859735517 (cloth)
1859735460 (pbk.)
9781845206352 (e-book)
Subject:
Anthropology -- Great Britain -- History.
National characteristics, British.
Great Britain -- Social life and customs.
Electronic books.
Contents:
pt. 1. Introduction -- pt. 2. Nationalism, constestation and the performance of tradition -- pt. 3. Strategies of modernity : heritage, leisure, dissociation -- pt. 4. The appropriation of discourse -- pt. 5. Methodologies and ethnomethodologies -- pt. 6. The making (and unmaking) of community : ethnicity, religiosity, locality -- pt. 7. Epilogue.
Physical Description:
xii, 340 p. : ill.
Electronic Location:
http://site.ebrary.com/lib/excellence/Doc?id=10400642
Publication Date:
2002.
Title:
British weather and the climate of enlightenment Jan Golinski.
Author:
Golinski, Jan.
ebrary, Inc.
General Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (p. [241]-268) and index.
Experiencing the weather in 1703 -- The "exquisite atmography" and its author -- The atmosphere and the earth -- Clouds in the head -- Public weather and the culture of enlightenment -- The great storm in public debate -- Providence and the British climate -- Conversation and weather lore -- Recording and forecasting -- The discipline of the diary -- The calendar and the seasons -- Forecasting by the heavens -- Barometers of enlightenment -- The genealogy of weather instruments -- The instrument trade and consumers -- Interpreting the "oraculous glasses" -- Sensibility and climatic pathology -- The hippocratic revival -- Aerial sensitivity and social change -- The politics of atmospheric reform -- Climate and civilization -- The enlightenment debate on climate -- Medicine and the colonial situation -- America: climate and destiny -- Conclusion: the science of weather.
Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2013. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.
Publisher:
University of Chicago Press,
Publication Place:
Chicago :
ISBN:
9780226302058 (cloth : alk. paper)
0226302059 (cloth : alk. paper)
Subject:
Meteorology -- Great Britain -- History.
Weather.
Climatology.
Great Britain -- Climate.
Electronic books.
Contents:
Experiencing the weather in 1703 -- The "exquisite atmography" and its author -- The atmosphere and the earth -- Clouds in the head -- Public weather and the culture of enlightenment -- The great storm in public debate -- Providence and the British climate -- Conversation and weather lore -- Recording and forecasting -- The discipline of the diary -- The calendar and the seasons -- Forecasting by the heavens -- Barometers of enlightenment -- The genealogy of weather instruments -- The instrument trade and consumers -- Interpreting the "oraculous glasses" -- Sensibility and climatic pathology -- The hippocratic revival -- Aerial sensitivity and social change -- The politics of atmospheric reform -- Climate and civilization -- The enlightenment debate on climate -- Medicine and the colonial situation -- America: climate and destiny -- Conclusion: the science of weather.
Physical Description:
xv, 284 p. : ill.
Electronic Location:
http://site.ebrary.com/lib/excellence/Doc?id=10431284
Publication Date:
2007.
Title:
The British working-class novel in the twentieth century / editor, Jeremy Hawthorn.
Stratford-upon-Avon Studies. Second series
Author:
Hawthorn, Jeremy.
General Notes:
Includes bibliographies and indexes.
The painter's bible and the British workman / Peter Miles -- Miners and the novel / Graham Holderness -- A feminist reading of Lewis Grassic Gibbon's A Scots quair / Deirdre Burton -- Love on the dole and the aesthetic of contradiction / Roger Webster -- History and myth in D.H. Lawrence's Chatterley novels / Graham Martin -- A revolutionary materialist with a leg free' / Michael Pickering and Kevin Robins -- The roots of Sillitoe's fiction / David Craig -- The Irish working class in fiction / Ruth Sherry -- Unfinished business / Tony Davies -- The making of a working-class writer / Michael Pickering.
Publisher:
E. Arnold,
Publication Place:
London ; Baltimore, Md., USA :
ISBN:
0713164158 (pbk.)
Subject:
English fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
Working class in literature.
Working class writings, English -- History and criticism.
Working class -- Great Britain -- Intellectual life.
Series:
Stratford-upon-Avon Studies. Second series
Contents:
The painter's bible and the British workman / Peter Miles -- Miners and the novel / Graham Holderness -- A feminist reading of Lewis Grassic Gibbon's A Scots quair / Deirdre Burton -- Love on the dole and the aesthetic of contradiction / Roger Webster -- History and myth in D.H. Lawrence's Chatterley novels / Graham Martin -- A revolutionary materialist with a leg free' / Michael Pickering and Kevin Robins -- The roots of Sillitoe's fiction / David Craig -- The Irish working class in fiction / Ruth Sherry -- Unfinished business / Tony Davies -- The making of a working-class writer / Michael Pickering.
Physical Description:
x, 162 p. : ill. ;
Publication Date:
1984.
Title:
British and Irish emigrants and exiles in Europe, 1603-1688 edited by David Worthington.
The northern world,
Northern world ;
Author:
Worthington, David.
ebrary, Inc.
General Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Community, commodity and commerce: the Stockholm-Scots in the seventeenth century / Steve Murdoch -- Scoti, cives cracovienses: their ethnic and social identity, 1570-1660 / Waldemar Kowalski -- Fortress Rotterdam? Rotterdam's Scots community and the covenanter cause, 1638-1688 / Douglas Catterall -- Special privileges for the Irish in the kingdom of Castile (1601-1680): modern myth or contemporary reality? / Ciaran O'Scea -- Hidden by 1688 and after: Irish Catholic migration to France, 1590-1685 / Éamon Ó Ciosáin -- Murder as a weapon of exile: English politics at the Spanish court (1649-1652) / Igor Pérez Tostado -- Scots in Swedish Bremen and Verden (1645-1712) / Kathrin Zickermann -- The Gordons of Huntly: a Scottish noble household and its European connections, 1603-1688 / Barry Robertson -- "My heart is a Scotch heart": Scottish Calvinist exiles in France in their continental context: 1605-1638 / Siobhan Talbott -- Under the Habsburgs and the Stuarts: the Leslies' Portrait Gallery in Ptuj Castle, Slovenia / Polona Vidmar -- English military émigrés and the Protestant cause in Europe, 1603-c 1640 / David J.B. Trim -- Scottish Catholics abroad, 1603-1688: evidence derived from the archives of the Scots colleges / Tom McInally -- Irish Franciscan networks at home and abroad, 1607-1640 / Thomas O'Connor -- The English convents in exile and questions of national identity, c. 1600-1688 / Caroline Bowden -- Perceptions of the British Isles and Ireland among the Catholic exiles: the case of Robert Corbington SJ / Peter Davidson.
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Publisher:
Brill,
Publication Place:
Leiden [The Netherlands] ; Boston :
ISBN:
9789004180086 (hardback : acid-free paper)
9004180087 (hardback : acid-free paper)
9789047444589 (e-book)
Subject:
Scots -- Europe -- History -- 17th century.
Irish -- Europe -- History -- 17th century.
English -- Europe -- History -- 17th century.
Aliens -- Europe -- History -- 17th century.
Scotland -- Emigration and immigration -- History -- 17th century.
Ireland -- Emigration and immigration -- History -- 17th century.
England -- Emigration and immigration -- History -- 17th century.
Electronic books.
Series:
The northern world, v. 47
Northern world ; v. 47.
Contents:
Community, commodity and commerce: the Stockholm-Scots in the seventeenth century / Steve Murdoch -- Scoti, cives cracovienses: their ethnic and social identity, 1570-1660 / Waldemar Kowalski -- Fortress Rotterdam? Rotterdam's Scots community and the covenanter cause, 1638-1688 / Douglas Catterall -- Special privileges for the Irish in the kingdom of Castile (1601-1680): modern myth or contemporary reality? / Ciaran O'Scea -- Hidden by 1688 and after: Irish Catholic migration to France, 1590-1685 / Éamon Ó Ciosáin -- Murder as a weapon of exile: English politics at the Spanish court (1649-1652) / Igor Pérez Tostado -- Scots in Swedish Bremen and Verden (1645-1712) / Kathrin Zickermann -- The Gordons of Huntly: a Scottish noble household and its European connections, 1603-1688 / Barry Robertson -- "My heart is a Scotch heart": Scottish Calvinist exiles in France in their continental context: 1605-1638 / Siobhan Talbott -- Under the Habsburgs and the Stuarts: the Leslies' Portrait Gallery in Ptuj Castle, Slovenia / Polona Vidmar -- English military émigrés and the Protestant cause in Europe, 1603-c 1640 / David J.B. Trim -- Scottish Catholics abroad, 1603-1688: evidence derived from the archives of the Scots colleges / Tom McInally -- Irish Franciscan networks at home and abroad, 1607-1640 / Thomas O'Connor -- The English convents in exile and questions of national identity, c. 1600-1688 / Caroline Bowden -- Perceptions of the British Isles and Ireland among the Catholic exiles: the case of Robert Corbington SJ / Peter Davidson.
Physical Description:
xiv, 344 p. : ill., maps.
Electronic Location:
http://site.ebrary.com/lib/excellence/Doc?id=10439317
Publication Date:
2010.
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