Name: The Dunbars of Ackergill and Hempriggs: The Story of a Caithness Family Based on the Dunbar Family Papers (en Inglés)
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Author: James Miller
ISBN: 9781849954891

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The Dunbars of Ackergill and Hempriggs: The Story of a Caithness Family Based on the Dunbar Family Papers (en Inglés)

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Libro Físico

Autor

James Miller

Editorial

Whittles

Idioma

Inglés

N° páginas

256

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Tapa Blanda

ISBN13

9781849954891

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Historia de europa
Historia social y cultural

The Dunbars of Ackergill and Hempriggs: The Story of a Caithness Family Based on the Dunbar Family Papers (en Inglés)

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The Dunbars of Ackergill and Hempriggs emerged in the late 1600s as one of the largest landowners in Caithness. As such they played a major part in the history of the county, a role revealed in the family papers with their wide variety of documents, including personal letters and legal missives. Readers will learn about the Dunbars selling Caithness grain in the Lowlands, coping with the effects of the last Jacobite rising, handling disputes with their neighbours, arranging elections, dealing with debt - and that is just in the 18th century. During the Napoleonic wars the Dunbars recruited a fencible regiment called the Caithness Legion that saw action in Ireland. At the same time the British Fisheries Society acquired land from the family and began to develop Pulteneytown as a major herring fishing port. An agricultural revolution swept over the estates, leading to the enclosing of fields, disputes over common land, evictions and refurbishment of farms. In the mid-19th century, when the family home at Ackergill Tower was refashioned by the architect David Bryce, the Dunbars adopted the lifestyle of the Victorian country gentry as well as finding careers in the Empire. With family trees, photographs, maps and documents, the book presents an absorbing, intriguing and, at times, amusing account of the social and economic life of the Dunbars over more than three hundred years, using unique messages from the past, never before made public.

James Miller

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James Miller (nacido en 1947) es un escritor y académico estadounidense, doctor en Historia de las Ideas por la Universidad de Brandeis. Actualmente, dirige el departamento de Liberal Studies en la New School for Social Research.

Entre sus obras más destacadas se encuentra La pasión de Michel Foucault (1993), una biografía que explora la vida y pensamiento del filósofo francés. Otra obra notable es Vidas sujetas a escrutinio: De Sócrates a Nietzsche (2011), donde analiza las trayectorias de diversos filósofos a lo largo de la historia. Estas publicaciones pertenecen al género de ensayo filosófico y han sido reconocidas por su profundidad y rigor académico.

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