Impaled upon a Thistle
Subtitle: Scotland since 1880
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Published: July 1, 2007
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 336
ISBN-13: 9780748613151
Subjects: British & Irish history: c 1700 to c 1900; British & Irish history: from c 1900 -; History; History - General History; History: World; Scotland; Europe - Great Britain - General; History / Great Britain
Description: Ewen Cameron explores the political debate between unionism, liberalism, socialism and nationalism, and the changing political relationship between Scotland and the United Kingdom. He sets Scottish experience alongside the Irish, Welsh and European, and considers British dimensions of historical change - involvement in two world wars, imperial growth and decline, for example - from a Scottish perspective. He relates political events to trends and movements in the economy, culture and society of the nation's regions - borders, lowlands, highlands, and islands. Underlying the history, and someti.