Impaled Upon a Thistle: Scotland Since 1880

ISBN-13: 9780748613144 / Angielski / Twarda / 2010 / 448 str.

Ewen A. Cameron

Opis

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.

Spis treści

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 Scotland, New Parliament