A people's history of Scotland
By: Chris Bambery
Publisher: Verso
Published: 2014
Place of publication: London; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 374
ISBN-13: 9781781682845; 9781781682852
Subjects: History; Social conditions; Socialism
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Scotland emerges; title: The wars of independence; title: Reformation and the war of the three kingdoms; title: Union, Jacobites and popular unrest; title: Enlightenment and capitalism; title: Rebel lives: Robert Burns; title: Radicals and chartists; title: The highland clearances and resistance; title: Scotland in the nineteenth century; title: Rebel lives: James Connolly; title: The Clyde runs red; title: Rebel lives: John Maclean; title: The 1920s: economic decline and general strike; title: Rebel lives: Helen Crawfurd; title: The great depression: suffering and resistance; title: Rebel lives: Hugh MacDiarmid; title: World War II and after; title: Rebel lives: Mary Brooksbank; title: The 1970s: when workers won; title: The Thatcher years; title: Twenty-first-century Scotland; title: Conclusion: our destiny is in our hands.