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A people's history of Scotland /

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Bambery, Chris
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: London ; New York : Verso, 2014.
Subjects:
Scotland > History.
Scotland > Social conditions.
Socialism > Scotland > History.
Table of Contents:
  • Scotland emerges
  • The wars of independence
  • Reformation and the war of the three kingdoms
  • Union, Jacobites and popular unrest
  • Enlightenment and capitalism
  • Rebel lives: Robert Burns
  • Radicals and chartists
  • The highland clearances and resistance
  • Scotland in the nineteenth century
  • Rebel lives: James Connolly
  • The Clyde runs red
  • Rebel lives: John Maclean
  • The 1920s: economic decline and general strike
  • Rebel lives: Helen Crawfurd
  • The great depression: suffering and resistance
  • Rebel lives: Hugh MacDiarmid
  • World War II and after
  • Rebel lives: Mary Brooksbank
  • The 1970s: when workers won
  • The Thatcher years
  • Twenty-first-century Scotland
  • Conclusion: our destiny is in our hands.