A New Race of Men
eBook - ePub

A New Race of Men

Scotland 1815-1914

  1. 448 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

A New Race of Men

Scotland 1815-1914

About this book

War opened and closed Scotland's greatest century: a pitiless part in the defeat of Naploeon in 1815, a huge blood-sacrifice for the sake of victory from 1914. In between came the greatest contributions to the progress and happiness of the rest of mankind that the Scots have ever made - in everything from the combine harvester to the mackintosh to anaesthesia. It was a supremely successful achieving society yet one not without deep flaws, in its urban poverty, its destruction of the environment, its religious intolerance, its moral hypocrisy, its crushing of Highland culture.Michael Fry shows, with an emphasis always on the human story, how a succession of deep crises undermined the usually tranquil and prosperous surface of life in Victorian Scotland to leave a legacy of paradox that the modern nation has even today yet to overcome.

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Information

Publisher
Birlinn
Year
2013
Print ISBN
9781780271422
eBook ISBN
9780857906595

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright
  4. Contents
  5. List of Illustrations
  6. Foreword
  7. Prologue: ā€˜Scotland for ever’
  8. Part I Economy
  9. Part II Society
  10. Part III Margins
  11. Part IV Politics
  12. Part V Culture
  13. Epilogue: ā€˜To perpetuate the tradition’
  14. Chronology
  15. Notes
  16. Index