No Gods and Precious Few Heroes: Scotland 1900-2015

by Christopher Harvie

Book Overview

A colourful and stimulating history of modern Scotland
This introductory history takes Scotland through two world wars and subsequent social exhaustion, through the re-energising adjustments loosely referred to as 'the sixties' to a final endgame of Union versus Independence. The novel structure of Harvie's history mirrors that of a grand engineering project, or a structure as complex as the Forth Railway Bridge: 'three periods of change...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0748682562
• ISBN13: 9780748682560
• Release Date: March 2016
• Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.5" x 8.5"