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A New Race of Men: Scotland 1815-1914

By Michael Fry

Book information

Publisher
Not Avail
Year
2014
ISBN
9780857906595, 9781780271422, 0857906593
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
4 MB (3882357 bytes)
Pages
323\0
Library
Mobilism
Time added
2023-06-25 04:49:33

Description

War opened and closed ScotlandOCOs greatest century: a pitiless part in the defeat of Naploeon in 1815, a huge blood-sacrifice for the sake of victory from 1914. In between came the greatest contributions to the progress and happiness of the rest of mankind that the Scots have ever made ? in everything from the combine harvester to the mackintosh to anaesthesia. It was a supremely successful achieving society yet one not without deep flaws, in its urban poverty, its destruction of the environment, its religious intolerance, its moral hypocrisy, its crushing of Highland culture. Michael Fry shows, with an emphasis always on the human story, how a succession of deep crises undermined the usually tranquil and prosperous surface of life in Victorian Scotland to leave a legacy of paradox that the modern nation has even today yet to overcome."

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