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Ewan A. Cameron, Impaled Upon A Thistle: Scotland Since 1880
No full textEwan A. Cameron, Impaled Upon A Thistle: Scotland Since 1880.
Vol. 10 of The New Edinburgh History of Scotland. Edinburgh:
Edinburgh University Press, 2010. Pp. 433. ISBN 978-0-
7486-1315-1. £22.99
Rosalind K. Marshall, Mary Queen of Scots: Truth or Lies
No full textRosalind K. Marshall. Mary Queen of Scots: Truth or Lies. Edinburgh: St. Andrew Press, 2010. Pp. 128. ISBN 978-07-1520-936-3. £9.99
Anna Groundwater, The Scottish Middle March 1573-1625: Power, Kinship, Allegiance
No full textAnna Groundwater. The Scottish Middle March 1573-1625: Power, Kinship, Allegiance. Royal Historical Society Studies in History, New Series. Woodbridge, UK: The Boydell Press, 2010. Pp. 236. ISBN 978-0-86193-307-5. £50.00; US$90.00
Jack Whyte, The Forest Laird: A Tale of William Wallace
No full textJack Whyte. The Forest Laird: A Tale of William Wallace. Toronto: Viking Group, 2010. Pp. xxiii + 483. ISBN 978-06-7006-846-3. CAD$36.00
Marjory Harper and Stephen Constantine, Migration and Empire
No full textMarjory Harper and Stephen Constantine, Migration and
Empire. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2010. Pp. 380. ISBN
978-01-9925-093-6. US$65.00
A Blind Perthshire Sergeant\u27s Lament for his Colonel who Died at El Hamet in 1807
No full textSergeant Alexander Forbes is a Scottish Gaelic bard who lived
in Perthshire in the early nineteenth century. Almost nothing is known about him apart from his military service. This marbh-rann for his lt-col,Patrick MacLeod of Geanies, doubles the bard\u27s certainly known output. It had lain unread for decades in the holdings of the National Library of Scotland on
George 1V Bridge in Edinburgh. Perthshire Gaelic was vulnerable to forces for economic and cultural change earlier than most fringe parts of the Gaidhealtachd
Annie Tindley, The Sutherland Estate, 1850-1920: Aristocratic Decline, Estate Management, and Land Reform
No full textAnnie Tindley, The Sutherland Estate, 1850-1920: Aristocratic
Decline, Estate Management, and Land Reform. Edinburgh:
Edinburgh University Press, 2010. Pp. 190. ISBN 978-07-
4864-032-4. £45.00
Working Towards A Better Nation: Innovation and Entrapment in the fiction of Alasdair Gray
No full textThis paper examines the seeming contradiction between the disavowal of moralizing in literature which Gray makes in his comments on Agnes Owens, and the extent to which Gray\u27s critics have asserted a political message as a key constituent in his own work. In exploring this issue, focus falls in a large part on the less than positive appraisal of the \u27radicalism\u27 of Gray\u27s politics offered by Alison Lumsden. Following on from several of Gray\u27s commentators, the principle vehicle for Gray\u27s political commentary within fiction is taken to be his explicit representation, in both realist and allegorical modes, of the political realities in which he writes. This grounding for his project is then shown to be incompatible with the politically radical message which Lumsden seems to imply as a necessary yet absent factor in Gray\u27s work, while allowing some form of political intervention to be made without contradicting the rules Gray himself has suggested for political fiction. Important to this is the notion of an as-yet unrealised freedom beyond - both thematically and temporally - Gray\u27s immediate focus, and of the individual actions within and against each entrapping political system which Gray\u27s fiction recurrently represents and valorises
Laurence Gourievidis, The Dynamics of Heritage: History, Memory, and the Highland Clearances
No full textLaurence Gourievidis, The Dynamics of Heritage: History, Memory,
and the Highland Clearances. Surrey: Ashgate, 2010. Pp. xxv +
232. ISBN 978-14-0940-244-2. £65.00
Emma Wilby, The Visions of Isobel Gowdie: Magic, Witchcraft and Dark Shamanism in Seventeenth-Century Scotland
No full textWilby, Emma. The Visions of Isobel Gowdie: Magic, Witchcraft and Dark Shamanism in Seventeenth-Century Scotland. Eastbourne: Sussex Academic Press, 2010. Pp. 604. ISBN 978-1-84519-180-1. CAD$ 65.00; £35.00