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A Short History of Scotland

A Short History of Scotland Soft cover - 2002

by Harvie, Christopher

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UK: Oxford University Press, 2002. Soft cover. Very Good/No Jacket. 'A book of this kind from Chris Harvie is an important literary and historiographical event ... it is inspiring how he embraces the world of culture and ideas with a sense of vision which very few historians can match.' Dauvit Broun, University of Glasgow Christopher Harvie, one of Scotland's leading historians and political writers, takes a long view of Scotland: its land, people, and culture. Scotland: A Short History sweeps from the earliest settlements to the new Parliament of 1999 and beyond. It describes the unique multi-ethnic kingdom which emerged from the Dark Ages, the small, proud nation manoeuvring among the great powers of medieval Europe, and the radical reformation which forced a compromise with its mighty southern neighbour. Harvie follows Scotland's tense partnership with England for 400 years, through dual monarchy and union, enlightenment and empire, industrialization, and finally the attainment of autonomy. Interrogating old cliche and Scottish myth, he applies the results of new research, and frames remote and recent developments in their European and world context. Harvie provides 'good gear in sma' buik' for the self-governing nation.
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  • Title A Short History of Scotland
  • Author Harvie, Christopher
  • Binding Soft cover
  • Edition 1st Printing
  • Condition Used - Very Good
  • Pages 265
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Oxford University Press, UK
  • Date 2002
  • Illustrated Yes
  • Features Bibliography, Illustrated, Index, Maps
  • Bookseller's Inventory # 085098
  • ISBN 9780192100542 / 0192100548
  • Weight 0.66 lbs (0.30 kg)
  • Dimensions 7.86 x 5.02 x 0.63 in (19.96 x 12.75 x 1.60 cm)
  • Themes
    • Cultural Region: British
  • Library of Congress subjects Scotland - History
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2003271511
  • Dewey Decimal Code 941.1

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Confronted with the country's remote past, and those ranks of the Proceedings of the Scottish Society of Antiquaries which march into it, with their record of digs and finds and comparative studies, a twentieth-century historian has to be apprehensive.

About the author

Christopher Harvie, Professor of British and Irish Studies at Tbingen University, made himself the leading historian of twentieth-century Scotland with two classic works, Scotland and Nationalism (1977, third edition 1998) and No Gods and Precious Few Heroes: Twentieth-Century Scotland (1981, third edition, 2000). Educated at the High School and University of Edinburgh, a pioneer of distance learning at the Open University, and a polymath in the tradition of Adam Smith and Patrick Geddes, Harvie now brings his interest in technology, politics and culture, displayed in The Lights of Liberalism (on the Oxbridge lite, 1976), The Centre of Things (on political fiction, 1991) and Fool's Gold (on North Sea oil, 1994) to bear on his own country, in A Short History of Scotland.

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