Электронная книга: John Pinkerton «An essay on medals. Vol. 2»
Полный вариант заголовка: «An essay on medals : Vol. 2 : or, an introduction to the knowledge of ancient and modern coins and medals, especially those of Greece, Rome, and Britain : in 2 volumes / by John Pinkerton». Издательство: "Библиотечный фонд" (1808)
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John Pinkerton
John Pinkerton (
He was born in
Pinkerton very much wished to purge his country's history of all
not yet advanced even to the state of barbarism; and if any foreigner doubts this, he has only to step into the Celtic parts of either Wales, Ireland or Scotland ...TheCelts were so inferior a people, being to the Scythians [i.e. Goths] as a negro to a European, that, as all history shows, to see them was to conquer them.
In an effort to further his theories, Pinkerton turned his energy to comparative Celtic and Germanic
To the very same end he set his time and inventive mind to collecting and creating older Anglo-Scottish literature. This was all the more important as far as his agenda was concerned because of the "Celtomania" produced by the
John Pinkerton's works are seen today as spurious, even ignoring the heavy infusion of extreme racism and Germanic racial supremacy theory. His personal correspondence with fellow academics is characterized by insecurity, slandering, bullying and extreme malevolence.
Despite this, Pinkerton is still an important figure in the history of British
References
Reading
* Ferguson, William, "The Identity of the Scottish Nation: An Historic Quest", (Edinburgh, 1998), pp. 250–273.
External links
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* [http://encyclopedia.jrank.org/PIG_POL/PINKERTON_JOHN_17581826_.html 1911 Encyclopedia]
* [http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Prairie/8980/famous_john_pinkerton.htm Short biography]
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