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  • Transatlantic Scots

    by Celeste Ray, Margaret Bennett, Edward J. Cowan, Paul Basu, Andrew Hook, Grant Jarvie, Colin McArthur, John W. Sheets, Michael Vance0, Jonathan Dembling1 ...
    Examines the impact of the Scottish legacy on North American cultures and heritageDuring the past four decades, growing interest in North Americans' cultural and ancestral ties to Scotland has produced hundreds of new Scottish clan and heritage societies. Well over 300 Scottish Highland games and gatherings annually take place across the U.S. and Canada.Transatlantic Scots is a multidisciplinary ... Read more

    $38.99 CAD

  • Highland Heritage

    Scottish Americans in the American South

    by Celeste Ray ...
    Each year, tens of thousands of people flock to Grandfather Mountain, North Carolina, and to more than two hundred other locations across the country to attend Scottish Highland Games and Gatherings. There, kilt-wearing participants compete in athletics, Highland dancing, and bagpiping, while others join clan societies in celebration of a Scottish heritage. As Celeste Ray notes, however, the ... Read more

    $20.99 CAD

  • Southern Heritage on Display

    Public Ritual and Ethnic Diversity within Southern Regionalism

    by Celeste Ray, Melissa Schrift, Helen Regis, Kathryn VanSpanckeren, Gwen Kennedy Neville, Susan Emley Keefe, Paul Monaghan, Joan Flocks, Laura Ehrisman, Steven Hoelscher0, Clyde Ellis1 ...
    How ritualized public ceremonies affirm or challenge cultural identities associated with the American SouthW. J. Cash's 1941 observation that “there are many Souths and many cultural traditions among them” is certainly validated by this book. Although the Civil War and its “lost cause” tradition continues to serve as a cultural root paradigm in celebrations, both uniting and dividing loyalties, ... Read more

    $38.99 CAD

  • Historical Ecologies, Heterarchies and Transtemporal Landscapes

    Edited by Celeste Ray, Manuel Fernández-Götz ...
    Interlacing varied approaches within Historical Ecology, this volume offers new routes to researching and understanding human–environmental interactions and the heterarchical power relations that shape both socioecological change and resilience over time. Historical Ecology draws from archaeology, archival research, ethnography, the humanities and the biophysical sciences to merge the history of ... Read more

    $92.99 CAD

  • Sacred Waters

    A Cross-Cultural Compendium of Hallowed Springs and Holy Wells

    Edited by Celeste Ray ...
    Describing sacred waters and their associated traditions in over thirty countries and across multiple time periods, this book identifies patterns in panhuman hydrolatry. Supplying life’s most basic daily need, freshwater sources were likely the earliest sacred sites, and the first protected and contested resource. Guarded by taboos, rites and supermundane forces, freshwater sources have also been ... Read more

    $92.99 CAD

  • The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture

    Volume 6: Ethnicity

    Edited by Celeste Ray ...
    Series Book 6 - The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture
    Transcending familiar categories of "black" and "white," this volume of The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture complicates and enriches our understanding of "southernness" by identifying the array of cultures that combined to shape the South. This exploration of southern ethnicities examines the ways people perform and maintain cultural identities through folklore, religious faith, dress, music, ... Read more

    $20.79 CAD

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  • How the Scots Invented the Modern World

    The True Story of How Western Europe's Poorest Nation Created Our World and Everything in It

    by Arthur Herman ...
    An exciting account of the origins of the modern worldWho formed the first literate society? Who invented our modern ideas of democracy and free market capitalism? The Scots. As historian and author Arthur Herman reveals, in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries Scotland made crucial contributions to science, philosophy, literature, education, medicine, commerce, and politics—contributions that ... Read more

    $13.99 CAD

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  • A History of the World in 100 Objects

    by Dr Neil MacGregor ...
    This book takes a dramatically original approach to the history of humanity, using objects which previous civilisations have left behind them, often accidentally, as prisms through which we can explore past worlds and the lives of the men and women who lived in them. The book's range is enormous. It begins with one of the earliest surviving objects made by human hands, a chopping tool from the ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD

  • American Nations

    A History of the Eleven Rival Regional Cultures of North America

    by Colin Woodard ...
    **• A New Republic Best Book of the Year • The Globalist Top Books of the Year • Winner of the Maine Literary Award for Non-fictionParticularly relevant in understanding who voted for who during presidential elections, this is an endlessly fascinating look at American regionalism and the eleven “nations” that continue to shape North America—by the bestselling author of Nations Apart**According to ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD

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  • Celtic Lightning

    How the Scots and the Irish Created a Canadian Nation

    by Ken McGoogan ...
    With Celtic Lightning, bestselling author Ken McGoogan plunges into the perpetual debate about Canadian roots and identity: Who do we think we are? He argues that Canadians have never investigated the demographic reality that informs this book—the fact that more than nine million Canadians claim Scottish or Irish heritage. Did the ancestors of more than one quarter of our population arrive without ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

  • A Different Mirror: A History of Multicultural America (Revised Edition)

    by Ronald Takaki ...
    Takaki traces the economic and political history of Indians, African Americans, Mexicans, Japanese, Chinese, Irish, and Jewish people in America, with considerable attention given to instances and consequences of racism. The narrative is laced with short quotations, cameos of personal experiences, and excerpts from folk music and literature. Well-known occurrences, such as the Triangle Shirtwaist ... Read more

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  • Tracing Your Scottish Ancestors

    A Guide for Family Historians

    by Ian Maxwell ...
    Series series Tracing Your Ancestors
    This guide to Scottish ancestry records offers detailed social history on how our ancestors lived, as well as resources for family historians.Scotland's history has been influenced by many factors—the division between the Highlands and the Lowlands, the feudal system, the Reformation, the industrial revolution —that have shaped the country's past and impacted on the lives of its people. Tracing ... Read more

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