A people's history of Scotland / Chris Bambery.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bambery, Chris, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Socialism.

History.

Scotland--History.

Scotland.

Scotland--Social conditions.

Social conditions.

Socialism--Scotland--History.

Nationalism--Scotland.

Nationalism.

Physical Description:

vi, 396 pages : map ; 20 cm

Edition:

Second edition.

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Verso, [2018]

Summary:

A riveting storyteller, Chris Bambery recounts the struggles for Scottish nationhood. He charts the lives of Scots who changed the world, as well as those who fought for the cause of ordinary people closer to home, from the poets Robert Burns and Hugh MacDiarmid to campaigners such as John Maclean and Helen Crawfurd. This is a passionate cry for more than just independence but also for a nation based on social justice. Fully updated to include the 2014 independence referendum and the subsequent dominance of the Scottish National Party, as well as the threat that Brexit poses the Union--back cover.

Contents:

Scotland emerges

The wars of independence

Reformation and the war of the three kingdoms

Union, Jacobites and popular unrest

Enlightenment and capitalism

Rebel lives: Robert Burns

Radicals and chartists

The highland clearances and resistance

Scotland in the nineteenth century

Rebel lives: James Connolly

The Clyde runs red

Rebel lives: John Maclean

The 1920s: economic decline and general strike

Rebel lives: Helen Crawfurd

The great depression: suffering and resistance

Rebel lives: Hugh MacDiarmid

World War II and after

Rebel lives: Mary Brooksbank

The 1970s: when workers won

The Thatcher years

Twenty-first-century Scotland

Conclusion: our destiny is in our hands.

Notes:

Previous edition: 2014.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 349-383) and index.

ISBN:

9781786637871

1786637871

OCLC:

1002291406