Essays in Scottish Labour History

Essays in Scottish Labour History

Author: William Hutton Marwick

Publisher: Edinburgh : Donald

Published: 1978

Total Pages: 298

ISBN-13:

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UK. Collection of essays dedicated to william hutton marwick on the social and history of the labour movement in scotland - includes information on topics related to trade unions in the nineteeth century strike policy in the mining industry, the labour market for unskilled workers in glasgow, working class housing, political ideology of the new left and the effect of Irish immigration into scotland, the 1929 general strike, etc. Bibliography of the works of w.h. Marwick, references and statistical tables. Festschrift marwick, w.h., labour historian.


Ireland, Radicalism, and the Scottish Highlands, c.1870-1912

Ireland, Radicalism, and the Scottish Highlands, c.1870-1912

Author: Andrew Newby

Publisher: Edinburgh University Press

Published: 2019-08-06

Total Pages: 240

ISBN-13: 1474471285

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This book focuses on the leading figures in radical politics in Ireland and Scottish highlands and explores the links between them. It deals with topics that have been at the centre of recent discussions on the Highland land question, the politics of the Irish community in Scotland, and the development of the labour movement in Scotland. The author argues that the Irish activists in the Scottish Highlands and in urban Scotland should be seen as adherents to notions of social and economic reform, such as land nationalisation, and not as Irish nationalists or Home Rulers. This leads him to make radical reassessments of the contributions of individuals such as John Ferguson, Michael Davitt and Edward McHugh. Andrew Newby looks closely at the political activities and ambitions of the Crofter MPs showing them to be a widely influential but diverse group: he reveals, for example, the extensive links between Angus Sutherland, the most radical of the Highland MPs, and John Ferguson's groupings of Irish political activists of urban Scotland. This is a balanced and vivid account of a turbulent period of modern Scottish history.


Glasgow

Glasgow

Author: Thomas Martin Devine

Publisher: Manchester University Press

Published: 1995

Total Pages: 456

ISBN-13: 9780719036910

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Industrial Nation

Industrial Nation

Author: William Knox

Publisher: Edinburgh University Press

Published: 2019-07-31

Total Pages: 401

ISBN-13: 1474469906

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This is a social and cultural history of Scotland's industrial rise and relative decline, concerned above all with the leaders and workers (industrial, political, manufacturing, mining and engineering, as well as religious, union, educational and moral) who produced the first and suffered in the second. Political, social and economic events, movements and trends are welded together in a well-ordered and vivid narrative. It assumes almost no prior knowledge, and introduces the reader gently to the central debates about the nature and course of modern Scottish History. The style is clear and spare - with frequent dry, witty asides; it will be ideal for the student, but will equally appeal to the general reader interested in modern Scottish history. It is illustrated with maps, photographs and drawings, with guides to further reading and a full index.Key Features* The first systematic and economic history of modern Scotland* A vivid chronological narrative account* Generously illustrated with contemporary illustrations


Scotland and the British Army, 1700-1750

Scotland and the British Army, 1700-1750

Author: Victoria Henshaw

Publisher: A&C Black

Published: 2014-06-05

Total Pages: 314

ISBN-13: 1472514890

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The wholesale assimilation of Scots into the British Army is largely associated with the recruitment of Highlanders during and after the Seven Years War. This important new study demonstrates that the assimilation of Lowland and Highland Scots into the British Army was a salient feature of its history in the first half of the 18th century and was already well advanced by the outbreak of the Seven Years War. Scotland and the British Army, 1700-1750 analyses the wider policing functions of the British Army, the role of Scotland's militia and the development of Scotland's military roads and institutions to provide a fuller understanding of the purpose and complexity of Scotland's military organisation and presence in Scotland in the turbulent decades between the Glorious Revolution and the defeat of Bonnie Prince Charlie, which has been too often simplified as an army of occupation for the suppression of Jacobitism. Instead, Victoria Henshaw reveals the complexities and difficulties experienced by Scottish soldiers of all ranks in the British Army as nationality, loyalty and prejudice clouded Scottish desires to use military service to defend the Glorious Revolution and the Union of 1707.


Land and Liberalism

Land and Liberalism

Author: Andrew Phemister

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2023-02-28

Total Pages: 291

ISBN-13: 100920291X

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Irish land in the 1880s was a site of ideological conflict, with resonances for liberal politics far beyond Ireland itself. The Irish Land War, internationalised partly through the influence of Henry George, the American social reformer and political economist, came at a decisive juncture in Anglo-American political thought, and provided many radicals across the North Atlantic with a vision of a more just and morally coherent political economy. Looking at the discourses and practices of these agrarian radicals, alongside developments in liberal political thought, Andrew Phemister shows how they utilised the land question to articulate a natural and universal right to life that highlighted the contradictions between liberty and property. In response to this popular agrarian movement, liberal thinkers discarded many older individualistic assumptions, and their radical democratic implications, in the name of protecting social order, property, and economic progress. Land and Liberalism thus vividly demonstrates the centrality of Henry George and the Irish Land War to the transformation of liberal thought.


John Wheatley

John Wheatley

Author: Ian S. Wood

Publisher: Manchester University Press

Published: 1990

Total Pages: 232

ISBN-13: 9780719019944

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A Bibliography of British History, 1914-1989

A Bibliography of British History, 1914-1989

Author: Keith Robbins

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 1996

Total Pages: 962

ISBN-13: 9780198224969

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Containing over 25,000 entries, this unique volume will be absolutely indispensable for all those with an interest in Britain in the twentieth century. Accessibly arranged by theme, with helpful introductions to each chapter, a huge range of topics is covered. There is a comprehensiveindex.


The Legend of Red Clydeside

The Legend of Red Clydeside

Author: Iain McLean

Publisher: Birlinn Ltd

Published: 2000-02-02

Total Pages: 276

ISBN-13: 178885554X

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This text analyzes what really happened in Glasgow in the tumultuous years following World War I. It shows the real improvements in social conditions, and explores the impact of these years on the coming dominance of the Labour party in the west of Scotland.