Impaled Upon a Thistle

Scotland since 1880

By: Ewen A. Cameron

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Hardcover | 31 March 2010

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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 against that of the Irish, Welsh, and the Europeans, and considers British dimensions of historical change, such as involvement in two world wars and imperial growth and decline, from a Scottish perspective. He relates political events to economic, cultural, and social trends within the nation's borders, lowlands, highlands, and islands, and follows the evolution and growth of national self-confidence and identity, which fundamentally affected Scotland's destiny in the last century. Cameron concludes with a consideration of how such forces may transform Scotland in the twenty-first.

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This is a dense political study, but the best of its kind, with enough social history to explicate the changes underway. The research is superb, and the full, up-to-date bibliography alone makes this book worth the price. Essential. -- J. J. Butt, Madison University Choice Cameron is a skilled story-teller, able to weave simultaneous strands of history together! An absorbing and insightful history of modern Scottish politics. -- Patricia Bowley, University of Guelph International Review of Scottish Studies This is a dense political study, but the best of its kind, with enough social history to explicate the changes underway. The research is superb, and the full, up-to-date bibliography alone makes this book worth the price. Essential. Cameron is a skilled story-teller, able to weave simultaneous strands of history together! An absorbing and insightful history of modern Scottish politics.

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Tables and Illustrations	p. vii
Acknowledgements	p. ix
Abbreviations	p. xi
General Editor's Preface	p. xiii
Introduction	p. 1

Progress and Poverty: Scottish Society, 1880 to 1914	p. 9
Enterprise and Initiative: The Scottish Economy, 1880 to 1939	p. 35
'An Exuberant Verbosity': Scottish Politics in the 1880s	p. 54
'Volcanic Upheavals': Scottish Politics before the Great War	p. 79
'Ower the Hill': Scotland and the Great War	p. 102
Poverty without Progress? Scottish Society in the Inter-war Period	p. 125
'Miracles and Politics Don't Mix': Political Change in the Inter-war Period	p. 150
Total War, 1939 to 1945	p. 175

The Social Revolution: Scottish Society since 1945	p. 201
The End of Industrial Scotland: The Economy since 1945	p. 236
Unionist Scotland: Politics, 1945 to 1970	p. 263
The 1970s: A Decade of Scottish Politics	p. 289
Mothering Devolution: Scottish Politics, 1979 to 1997	p. 320
New Labour, New Parliament, New Scotland?	p. 349
Bibliography	p. 372
Index	p. 421
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