A History of Everyday Life in Twentieth-Century Scotland

Book Overview

Over the twentieth century Scots' lives changed in fast, dramatic and culturally significant ways. By examining their bodies, homes, working lives, rituals, beliefs and consumption, this volume exposes how the very substance of everyday life was composed, tracing both the intimate and the mass changes that the people endured. Using novel perspectives and methods, chapters range across the experiences of work, art and death, the way Scots conceived...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0748624317
• ISBN13: 9780748624317
• Release Date: February 2010
• Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 9.2"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher