Harvie analyzes the pressures and influences that, over the past ninety years, have eroded Scotland's position as a world industrial power.
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Indispensable to anyone seeking to understand modern Scotland, and ... so well written that ... it will make the process of doing so a great pleasure. A bold and original book shot through with novel ideas. Indispensable to anyone seeking to understand modern Scotland, and ... so well written that ... it will make the process of doing so a great pleasure. A bold and original book shot through with novel ideas.
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Christopher Harvie is Professor of British Studies at the University of Tubingen and author of No Gods and Precious Few Heroes (Edinburgh University Press).
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In the summer of 1911 Glasgow hosted its third great exhibition. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
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World War, Scottish Office, Secretary of State, Lloyd George, Scottish Council, Church of Scotland, Walter Elliot, General Strike, Scottish Economic Committee, Lord Advocate, New Song, Red Clyde, Tom Johnston, Boyd Orr, North Sea, Bonar Law, Catholic Church, Glasgow Herald, John Maclean, North British Locomotive Company, Board of Trade, Council of State, Popular Front, Scottish Convention, Toothill Report New!
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In the summer of 1911 Glasgow hosted its third great exhibition. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
central belt Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
World War, Scottish Office, Secretary of State, Lloyd George, Scottish Council, Church of Scotland, Walter Elliot, General Strike, Scottish Economic Committee, Lord Advocate, New Song, Red Clyde, Tom Johnston, Boyd Orr, North Sea, Bonar Law, Catholic Church, Glasgow Herald, John Maclean, North British Locomotive Company, Board of Trade, Council of State, Popular Front, Scottish Convention, Toothill Report New!
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- The First Hundred Thousand (The Bestsellers of 1917) by Ian Hay on page 10, and page 129
- The Labour Party: A Centenary History by Brian Brivati on page 182, and Back Matter
- John Maclean by Nan Milton on page 21, and Back Matter
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- Being English in Scotland: A Guide by Murray Watson on 4 pages
- Industrial Nation by William W. Knox in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- The Schooling of Working-Class Girls in Victorian Scotland: Gender, Education and Identity (Woburn Education Series) by Jane McDermid on page 4, Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- The Scottish Labour Party by Gerry Hassan in Front Matter, and page 173
- Governing Scotland: The Invention of Administrative Devolution by James Mitchell in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
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