Impaled upon a Thistle Scotland Since 1880

Name: Impaled upon a Thistle Scotland Since 1880
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ISBN: 9780748613151

ISBN-10: 0748613153

ISBN-13: 9780748613151

Edition: 2010

Authors: Ewen A. Cameron, Ewen A. Cameron

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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 Irish, Welsh, and European, and relates political events to national economic, cultural, and social trends.

Book details

List price: $33.95
Copyright year: 2010
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Publication date: 3/31/2010
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 448
Size: 9.20" wide x 6.10" long x 1.30" tall
Weight: 1.562
Language: English



Tables and Illustrations


Acknowledgements


Abbreviations


General Editor's Preface


Introduction






Progress and Poverty: Scottish Society, 1880 to 1914



Enterprise and Initiative: The Scottish Economy, 1880 to 1939



'An Exuberant Verbosity': Scottish Politics in the 1880s



'Volcanic Upheavals': Scottish Politics before the Great War



'Ower the Hill': Scotland and the Great War



Poverty without Progress? Scottish Society in the Inter-war Period



'Miracles and Politics Don't Mix': Political Change in the Inter-war Period



Total War, 1939 to 1945






The Social Revolution: Scottish Society since 1945



The End of Industrial Scotland: The Economy since 1945



Unionist Scotland: Politics, 1945 to 1970



The 1970s: A Decade of Scottish Politics



Mothering Devolution: Scottish Politics, 1979 to 1997



New Labour, New Parliament, New Scotland?


Bibliography


Index