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The Road to Independence?by Murray Pittock
Reaktion Books 2008; US$ 28.95Independence has been a contested issue in Scotland since the region was first invaded by England in 1707, and the realm continues to linger in a no-man?s land between regional status and full sovereignty. The issue of independence has risen to the forefront of Scottish discussion in the past fifty years and Murray Pittock offers here an examination of modern Scottish nationalism and what it means for the United Kingdom. Pittock charts Scotland?s economic, cultural, and social histories, focusing on the history and cultural impact of Scottish cities and industries, the role of multiculturalism in contemporary Scottish society, and the upheaval of devolution, including the 2007 election of Scotland?s first nationalist government.... more...
Scotlandby Jamie Grant
Marshall Cavendish International (Asia) Ptd Ltd 2010; US$ 14.39A Survival Guide to Customs and Etiquette in Scotland more...
A History of Everyday Life in Twentieth-Century Scotlandby Lynn Abrams; Callum G Brown
Edinburgh University Press 2010; US$ 152.00Over the twentieth century Scots' lives changed in fast, dramatic and culturally significant ways. By examining their bodies, homes, working lives, rituals, beliefs and consumption, this volume exposes how the very substance of everyday life was composed, tracing both the intimate and the mass changes that the people endured. Using novel perspectives and methods, chapters range across the experiences of work, art and death, the way Scots conceived of themselves and their homes, and the way the 'old Scotland' of oppressive community rules broke down from mid-century as the country reinvented its everyday life and culture. This volume brings together leading cultural historians of twentieth-century Scotland to study the apparently... more...
Impaled Upon a Thistleby Ewen A. Cameron
Edinburgh University Press 2010; US$ 133.00Ewen 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 nations 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 Scotlands destiny... more...
A History of Everyday Life in Scotland, 1800 to 1900by Graeme Morton; Trevor Griffiths
Edinburgh University Press 2010; US$ 80.00This volume covers the nineteenth century, a period of profound change in Scottish history. more...
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