Impaled Upon a Thistle : Scotland since 1880 / Ewen Cameron.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Cameron, Ewen, Author.

Series:

New Edinburgh History of Scotland Series

New Edinburgh History of Scotland : NEHS

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource (448 p.) : 14 B/W halftones

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2022]

Language Note:

In 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, and sometimes impelling its ambitions, are the evolution and growth of national self-confidence and identity which fundamentally affected Scotland’s destiny in the last century. Dr Cameron ends by considering how such forces may transform it in this one. Like the period it describes this book has politics at its heart. The recent upsurge of scholarship and publication, backed by the author’s extensive primary research, underpin its vivid and well-paced narrative.

Contents:

Frontmatter

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 1880s

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 1970s: 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 on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 24. Apr 2022)

ISBN:

1-4744-8101-9