Impaled upon a thistle [electronic resource] : Scotland since 1880 / Ewen A. Cameron.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Cameron, Ewen A.

Series:

New Edinburgh history of Scotland ; v. 10.

New Edinburgh history of Scotland ; Vol. 10

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Scotland--History--19th century.

Scotland.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (449 p.)

Place of Publication:

Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, 2010.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Ewen Cameron explores the political debate between unionism, liberalism, socialism and nationalism, and the changing political relationship between Scotland and the United Kingdom. He sets Scottish experience alongside the Irish, Welsh and European, and considers British dimensions of historical change - involvement in two world wars, imperial growth and decline, for example - from a Scottish perspective. He relates political events to trends and movements in the economy, culture and society of the nation's regions - borders, lowlands, highlands, and islands. Underlying the history,

Contents:

Cover; Copyright; Contents; Tables and Illustrations; Acknowledgements; Abbreviations; General Editor's Preface; Introduction; Part One; chapter 1 Progress and Poverty: Scottish Society, 1880 to 1914; chapter 2 Enterprise and Initiative: The Scottish Economy, 1880 to 1939; chapter 3 'An Exuberant Verbosity': Scottish Politics in the 1880's; chapter 4 'Volcanic Upheavals': Scottish Politics before the Great War; chapter 5 'Ower the Hill': Scotland and the Great War; chapter 6 Poverty without Progress? Scottish Society in the Inter-war Period

chapter 7 'Miracles and Politics Don't Mix': Political Change in the Inter-war Period chapter 8 Total War, 1939 to 1945; Part Two; chapter 9 The Social Revolution: Scottish Society since 1945; chapter 10 The End of Industrial Scotland: The Economy since 1945; chapter 11 Unionist Scotland: Politics, 1945 to 1970; chapter 12 The 1970's: A Decade of Scottish Politics; chapter 13 Mothering Devolution: Scottish Politics, 1979 to 1997; chapter 14 New Labour, New Parliament, New Scotland?; Bibliography; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-282-61999-3

9786612619991

0-7486-2825-8

OCLC:

642662096