People and Society in Scotland: 1914-1990

People and Society in Scotland: 1914-1990

Author: Thomas Martin Devine

Publisher: John Donald

Published: 1992

Total Pages: 312

ISBN-13:

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Throughout this volume emphasis is placed on the particular identity and distinctiveness of Scotland in terms both of its institutions and the social values of the Scottish people.


Women and Scottish Society, 1700–2000

Women and Scottish Society, 1700–2000

Author: W.W.J. Knox

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2021-05-03

Total Pages: 228

ISBN-13: 1000382389

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This book attempts to cover all the important aspects of a woman’s life in Scotland, examining how and why it changed over the last 300 years. It walks us through the day-to-day existence of Scottish women and in doing so covers areas such as family and household, education, work and politics, religion and sexuality, crime and punishment. While sensitive to the differences among women, regarding colour, class and sexuality, the book seeks to establish a close and reciprocal relationship between women’s history and gender history; the first delineating the struggles of women for parity with men in economic, legal and political spheres; the second, as means of unravelling the continuing ways in which power is unequally distributed within the home, the workplace and in institutions, and in contesting the male-centred narratives of the past.


The Oxford Companion to Scottish History

The Oxford Companion to Scottish History

Author: Michael Lynch

Publisher:

Published: 2007

Total Pages: 760

ISBN-13: 0199234825

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Searchable online reference covers more than 20 centuries of history, and interpret history broadly, covering areas such as archaeology, climate, culture, languages, immigration, migration, and emigration. Multi-authored entries analyze key themes such as national identity, women and society, living standards, and religious belief across the centuries in an authoritative yet approachable way. The A-Z entries are complemented by maps, genealogies, a glossary, a chronology, and an extensive guide to further reading.--From title screen.


Britishness Since 1870

Britishness Since 1870

Author: Paul Ward

Publisher: Psychology Press

Published: 2004

Total Pages: 264

ISBN-13: 9780415220163

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Thematically organized, this book examines the forces that have contributed to a sense of Britishness, and how this has been mediated by other identities such as class, gender, region, ethnicity and the sense of belonging to the UK and Ireland.


Politics and Society in Scotland

Politics and Society in Scotland

Author: Alice Brown

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

Published: 1998-11-11

Total Pages: 280

ISBN-13: 1349149608

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Substantially revised and rewritten in the light of the 1997 General Election and Devolution referendum, the 2nd edition of this widely-used text provides an up-to-date assessment of Scottish politics under Blair and the likely impact of the new Scottish Parliament. The book focuses in particular on Scotland's constitutional position within the UK; its system of policy making; the nature of the Scottish economy; and the changing patterns of party electoral and grass roots politics. An important feature is its focus throughout on the relationship between culture, identity and ethnicity and that between politics and civil society as it has developed since the Act of Union in 1707.


History of Everyday Life in Twentieth-Century Scotland

History of Everyday Life in Twentieth-Century Scotland

Author: Lynn Abrams

Publisher: Edinburgh University Press

Published: 2010-02-28

Total Pages: 320

ISBN-13: 0748630414

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Over the twentieth century Scots' lives changed infast, dramatic and culturally significant ways. By examining their bodies,homes, working lives, rituals, beliefs and consumption, this volume exposeshow the very substance of everyday life was composed, tracing both theintimate and the mass changes that the people endured. Using novelperspectives and methods, chapters range across the experiences of work, artand death, the way Scots conceived of themselves and their homes, and theway the 'old Scotland' of oppressive community rules broke down frommid-century as the country reinvented its everyday life and culture. Thisvolume brings together leading cultural historians of twentieth-centuryScotland to study the apparently mundane activities of people's lives,traversing the key spaces where daily experience is composed to expose thecontroversial personal and national politics that ritual and practice cangenerate. Key features: *Contains an overview of the material changesexperienced by Scots in their everyday lives during the course of thecentury*Focuses on some of the key areas of change in everyday experience,from the way Scots spent their Sundays to the homes in which they lived,from the work they undertook to the culture they consumed and eventually theway they died. *Pays particular attention to identity as well asexperience


The Oxford Handbook of Modern Scottish History

The Oxford Handbook of Modern Scottish History

Author: T. M. Devine

Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA

Published: 2012-01-26

Total Pages: 720

ISBN-13: 0199563691

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A landmark study which reconsiders in fresh and illuminating ways the classic themes of the nation's history since the sixteenth century, as well as a number of new topics which are only now receiving detailed attention. Places the Scottish experience firmly in an international historical experience.


Episcopalianism in Nineteenth-Century Scotland

Episcopalianism in Nineteenth-Century Scotland

Author: Rowan Strong

Publisher: OUP Oxford

Published: 2002-03-21

Total Pages: 368

ISBN-13: 0191530360

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Rowan Strong examines the history of Scottish Episcopalianism in the nineteenth century as a response to the new urbanizing and industrializing society of the time. In particular, he looks at the various Episcopalian sub-cultures which had to come to terms with these social and economic changes. These sub-cultures include Highland Gaels; North-East crofters, farmers and fisherfolk; urban Episcopalians; aristocratic Episcopalians; and Evangelicals and Anglo-Catholics. He provides also an outline of the history of Episcopalianism in Scotland from the sixteenth century to 1900, Rowan Strong addresses the issue of Episcopalianism and Scottish identity, which is topical today.


A History of the Peoples of the British Isles

A History of the Peoples of the British Isles

Author: Thomas Heyck

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2019-06-19

Total Pages: 372

ISBN-13: 1134415133

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Volume III deals with the 'long twentieth century'. Its main themes are: * the contraction of British industrial power and the shift to a service-based economy * the decline of Victorianism and the rise of Modernism * the climax of class society between the wars and the blurring of class lines after the 1960s * the impact of two world wars * the decline of British power and the empire * the partition of Ireland * the devolution of power to Wales and Scotland.


The History of Catholic Intellectual Life in Scotland, 1918–1965

The History of Catholic Intellectual Life in Scotland, 1918–1965

Author: Clifford Williamson

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2016-06-10

Total Pages: 264

ISBN-13: 1137333472

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This book offers an innovative approach to the character of the intellectual life of Catholics in Scotland. It looks at Catholic attempts to fight the appeal of communism amongst the working classes in interwar Scotland, it analyses developments in the devotional life of Scottish Catholics and it discusses the unique theological contribution made by Scottish clerics. Chapters also explore the increasing presence of Catholics in Scotland in higher education and their role in shaping change within the Catholic Church. Finally, readers will have the opportunity to learn more about the previously under-researched Catholic Intelligentsia, and the debate within it on the place of Catholicism in the history of Scotland. The History of Catholic Intellectual Life in Scotland, 1918–1965 presents the domestic context of the changing character of Scottish Catholicism, as well as the context of changes in European Catholicism.