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  • Where Men No More May Reap or Sow

    The Little Ice Age: Scotland 1400–1850

    by Richard D. Oram ...
    Series series An Environmental History of Scotland
    Drawing together the evidence of archaeology, palaeoecology, climate history and the historical record, this first environmental history of Scotland explores the interaction of human populations with the land, waters, forests and wildlife.This volume spans 450 years that saw profound transformation in Scotland’s environment. It begins in the fifteenth century, when the ‘Golden Age’ of the early ... Read more

    $66.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Where Wind and Water Cleave

    An Environmental History of Scotland

    by Richard D. Oram ...
    Scotland’s environmental history follows climate change and human action reshaping land, waters, animals, and plants over millennia.Take a rollercoaster ride through Scotland's fearsome environmental history.When the icesheet that covered what is now Scotland began to retreat around 12,000 years ago, it revealed a land stripped to its rocky bones but ready to be reclothed in soil, to bear plant ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD

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  • Alexander II

    King of Scots 1214-1249

    by Richard Oram, Richard D. Oram ...
    By equal measure state-builder and political unifier and ruthless opportunist and bloody-handed aggressor, Alexander II has been praised or vilified by past historians but has rarely been viewed in the round. This book explores the king's successes and failures, offering a fresh assessment of his contribution to the making of Scotland as a nation. It lifts the focus from an introspective national ... Read more

    $24.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Eilean Donan Castle

    Exploring a Highland Icon, Archaeological Research Excavations 2009–2017

    by Cecily Shakespeare, Jonathan Clark, Justin Garner-Lahire, Richard Oram, Nicola Toop ...
    Now hard to believe, Eilean Donan Castle was once one of the largest castles in the west Highlands, known to have featured seven towers, the remains of which lie buried on the island. This book provides a refreshed view of the lost medieval guise of the castle, of its 13th-century origins and form, and of who was responsible for building it, allowing the castle to be positioned accurately in the ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Kings and Queens of Scotland: Classic Histories Series

    by Richard Oram ...
    Series series Classic Histories Series
    The history of the Scottish monarchy is a long tale of triumph over adversity, characterised by the personal achievements of remarkable rulers who transformed their fragile kingdom into the master of northern Britain. The Kings and Queens of Scotland charts that process, from the earliest Scots and Pictish kings of around ad 400 through to the union of parliaments in 1707, tracing it through the ... Read more

    $14.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Stewarts

    Kings and Queens of Scotland 1371-1625

    by Richard Oram ...
    This is an accessible, illustrated history of the Stewart royal family, kings and queens of the Scots from Robert II (1371-90) to James VI (1567-1625), the last Stewart monarch to really know and understand the Scots. ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Lordship of Galloway

    by Richard Oram ...
    In viewing Galloway from the wider context of the northern British mainland, Irish Sea and wider Hebridean zone, it has been possible to explore the dynamics of state-building, dynastic interactions, and the close inter-relationships of the territories connected by the western seaways, which most traditional ’national’ histories obscure. From this wider perspective, the development of the lordship ... Read more

    $32.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Domination and Lordship

    Scotland, 1070-1230

    by Richard Oram ...
    Series series New Edinburgh History of Scotland

    $37.99 CAD

  • Lordship and Architecture in Medieval and Renaissance Scotland

    Edited by Geoffrey Stell, Richard Oram ...
    These essays constitute the first radical reassessment since the nineteenth century of the role of architecture as an expression of lordship and status among Scottish secular and ecclesiastical elites in the period c.1124–c.1650. These studies of the architectural patronage of particular families or groups explore how the nobility operated socially and economically, as well as politically, in the ... Read more

    $32.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Collecting, Curating, and Researching Writers' Libraries

    A Handbook

    Edited by Richard W. Oram ...
    Academic collection practices in recent years have extended to the private libraries of notable individual authors. As a consequence, book historians have become more interested in the study of provenance of the contents of these libraries, while literary scholars have devoted more attention to authorial annotations. At the same time, the Internet has encouraged both scholarly and hobbyist ... Read more

    $126.99 CAD

  • Wild Men and Holy Places

    St Ninian, Whithorn and the Medieval Realm of Galloway

    by Daphne Brooke ...
    Drawing upon historical research and archaeological discoveries, Daphne Brooke brings to life the events and personalities of the ancient realm of Galloway from Roman times until the fifteenth century. This mysterious region of south-west Scotland has for centuries attracted pilgrims to its holy places, especially Whithorn, ever since St Ninian founded Candida Casa (now known as Whithorn) in the ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • A Handful of Mischief

    New Essays on Evelyn Waugh

    by Donat Gallagher, Ann Pasternak Slater, John Howard Wilson, Baron Alder, Peter G. Christensen, Robert Murray Davis, Patrick Denman Flanery, Irina Kabanova, Dan S. Kostopulos, Lewis MacLeod, John W. Mahon, Richard W. Oram, D. Marcel DeCoste ...
    A Handful of Mischief: New Essays on Evelyn Waugh is a collection of essays based on presentations at the Evelyn Waugh Centenary Conference at Hertford College, Oxford, in 2003. There are twelve different essays by authors from various countries, including Australia, Canada, Russia, the United Kingdom, and the United States. The essays cover a wide range of material, from Waugh's early novel Black ... Read more

    $127.99 CAD