This edition includes a modern introduction and a list of suggested further reading. "Everything belonging to the Highlands of Scotland has of late become peculiarly interesting. It is not much above half a century since it was otherwise."-Sir Walter Scott Sir Walter Scott placed the Scottish Highlands on the map of popular tourist destinations. This timeworn work-consisting of the 1816 essay "Manners, Customs and History of the Highlanders of Scotland"...

Do you remember collecting shrapnel and listening to Children's Hour? Carrying gas masks or sharing your school with evacuees from the city? The 1940s was a time of great challenge for everyone who lived through it. From the hardships and fear of a World War, with Britain's towns and cities were being bombed on an almost nightly basis, to the trauma of being parted from ones parents and sent away to the country to live with complete strangers. For...

The remarkable story of a hidden New Deal program that tried to change America and end the Great Depression using folk music, laying the groundwork for the folk revival and having a lasting impact on American culture. In 1934, the Great Depression had destroyed the US economy, leaving residents poverty-stricken. First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt urged President Roosevelt to take radical action to help those hit hardest—Appalachian miners and mill workers...

Most people don't give a second thought to the stuff on their head, but in Hair, Kurt Stenn - one of the world's foremost hair follicle experts - takes readers on a global journey through history, from fur merchant associations and sheep farms to medical clinics and patient support groups, to show the remarkable impact hair has had on human life. From a completely bald beauty queen with alopecia to the famed hair-hang circus act, Stenn weaves the...

Millions of us take package holidays for granted every year but did you ever wonder how it all began? Thanks to Vincent Cobb's 35 years’ experience working in the travel industry culminating in his position as Managing director of Thomson Holidays we can learn about all the tricks they had to get up to that formed the basis of the business at its outset. This fascinating book allows us to observe the industries steep learning curve from its infancy...

Al juliol de 2010, un grup d'historiadors d'Europa i Estats Units, es van reunir en la Universitat d'East Anglia (Norwich) per a presentar i exposar noves perspectives, mirades i vies de recerca, vinculades a la història social. Allí van realitzar una reflexió que s'uneix a la renovació historiogràfica duta a terme en els últims quaranta anys per James Casey des del seu laboratori d'observació de la Universitat d'East Anglia. James Casey és...

In this highly researched and comprehensive book, the author argues for Coventry's Roman past, long doubted, and explores its Saxon roots as home to the monastic houses of St Osburg. He throws new light on Leofric and Godiva, including their involvement in the foundation or endowment of St Mary's Priory, and using recent excavation work he reveals the most up-to-date ideas on its appearance and its destruction. The city's later medieval past is explained...

Historia Cultural: Apuntes desde México, es un libro que considera una posición de pensamiento desde México, no solamente abordando el lugar de estudio, sino también los factores culturales que nos limitan y nos enriquecen epistémicamente. Aunque, si queremos ser más especícos, la mayoría nos ubicamos en Lagos de Moreno, Jalisco. En este sentido, desde el trabajo de investigación de las y los integrantes del posgrado en Historia Cultural...

If you want a concise, understandable account of The Panacea Society, written in a conversational style - this is it. Here is everything you ever wanted to know about The Panacea Society, a fascinating ornament of twentieth-century England. It is also a biography of Etholle, a fictional character who gets involved in the strange goings-on of the group. An occasional participant in Panacea life, she sees the Northern Lights, meets the Daughter of God,...

While Adolf Hitler was seizing power in Germany, Adrien Arcand was laying the foundations in Quebec for his Parti national social chrétien. The Blue Shirts, as its members were called, wore a military uniform and prominently displayed the swastika. Arcand saw Jewish conspiracy wherever he turned and his views resonated with his followers who, like him, sought a scapegoat for all the ills eroding society. Even after his imprisonment during the Second...