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Book Description
Generously illustrated with contemporary maps, photos, and drawings, this is a social and cultural history of Scotland's industrial rise and relative decline, concerned above all with the leaders and workers (industrail, political, manufacturing, mining and engineering, as well as religious, union, eduational, and moral) who produced the first and suffered in the second. Political, social, and economic events, movements and trens are welded together in a well-ordered and vivid narrative. It assumes almost no prior knowledge, and introduces the reader gently to the nature and course of modern Scottish history. The style is clear and sparse, with frequent dry, witty asides.
About the Author
William W. Knox is a lecturer in Scottish history at the University of St. Andrews.
Industrial Nation,William W. Knox,Edinburgh University Press,0748610855,English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh,Europe - Great Britain - General,Europe - Great Britain - Scotland,History,History - General History,Industrial revolution,Industries - General,Labor,Literary Criticism,Literature: Classics,Scotland,Working class,20th century,British & Irish history: c 1700 to c 1900,British & Irish history: from c 1900 -,Economic history,Industry & Industrial Studies,Literary Criticism & Collections / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh,Social history,c 1800 to c 1900
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