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- Condition
- ISBN
- 1780271425
- EAN
- 9781780271422
- Date of Publication
- 2013-10-03
- Publication Name
- N/A
- Type
- Hardback
- Release Title
- A New Race of Men: Scotland 1815-1914
- Artist
- Michael Fry
- Brand
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- Colour
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- Book Title
- New Race of Men : Scotland 1815-1914
- Publisher
- Birlinn, The Limited
- Item Length
- 9.2 in
- Publication Year
- 2013
- Format
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Illustrator
- Yes
- Item Height
- 1.9 in
- Genre
- Political Science, History
- Topic
- Europe / Great Britain / Scotland, World / European, Europe / Great Britain / General
- Item Weight
- 32.7 Oz
- Item Width
- 6.2 in
- Number of Pages
- 480 Pages
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Publisher
Birlinn, The Limited
ISBN-10
1780271425
ISBN-13
9781780271422
eBay Product ID (ePID)
169562786
Product Key Features
Book Title
New Race of Men : Scotland 1815-1914
Number of Pages
480 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
2013
Topic
Europe / Great Britain / Scotland, World / European, Europe / Great Britain / General
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Political Science, History
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Height
1.9 in
Item Weight
32.7 Oz
Item Length
9.2 in
Item Width
6.2 in
Additional Product Features
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Trade
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A great introduction to the pioneering legacy of the Scottish Victorian era ... bringing the theatre of Scottish history to life with an incredible eye to detail, a forceful reminder not only of the great Victorian city's attempts to enforce lasting change but also of how far we have come, Mr Fry has some excellent insights [...] There is much to appreciate in this erudite tome. As a primer on the forthcoming debate, it is a fine sounding board, [N]ever knowingly understating his case, Fry spins a bold, lively, and readable tale [...] Written with flair
Dewey Edition
23
Dewey Decimal
941.1081
Synopsis
In his new book on Scotland 1815 - 1914, Michael Fry goes well beyond the conventional analyses of the economy and society to which previous histories have confined themselves. Here the central thread of the story is not steady assimilation to the norms of the United Kingdom but the survival of distinct forms of Scottishness that both derived from an independent past and laid the foundations for the reassertion of nationality in the present time. The emphasis is therefore not on those aspects in which Scotland became more like the rest of Britain - though these are acknowledged and described - rather on the ways in which Scotland remained different. Through detailed new research, particular attention is paid to the development of politics and government in the Victorian era. Above all, however, Michael Fry points to the condition of Scottish culture, in both its triumphs and its failings, as the key to understanding what made the nation falter in some respects yet in others to survive and at length prosper once again. Throughout, for this exemplary era of Scottish individualism, he relies not on theories and statistics but on the experience of individual Scots men and women to bring out the essential achievement of Scotland's greatest century to date., Michael Fry's new volume deals with arguably the most significant century in Scottish history, 1815 - 1914. Using individual experiences of men and women, Fry focuses on the aspects of 'Scottishness' that define the nation's individuality, and above all on the culture that makes Scots what they are., 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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