Glasgow, the Uneasy Peace
Author: Tom Gallagher
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Published: 1987
Total Pages: 402
ISBN-13: 9780719023965
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Glasgow : the Uneasy Peace
Author: Tom Gallagher
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Published: 1987-01-01
Total Pages: 392
ISBN-13: 9780719024108
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A People's History of Scotland
Author: Chris Bambery
Publisher: Verso Books
Published: 2014-06-17
Total Pages: 385
ISBN-13: 1781682844
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A People’s History of Scotland looks beyond the kings and queens, the battles and bloody defeats of the past. It captures the history that matters today, stories of freedom fighters, suffragettes, the workers of Red Clydeside, and the hardship and protest of the treacherous Thatcher era. With riveting storytelling, Chris Bambery recounts the struggles for nationhood. He charts the lives of Scots who changed the world, as well as those who fought for the cause of ordinary people at home, from the poets Robbie Burns and Hugh MacDiarmid to campaigners such as John Maclean and Helen Crawfurd. This is a passionate cry for more than just independence but also for a nation based on social justice.
The Irish Diaspora
Author: Andrew Bielenberg
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2014-05-12
Total Pages: 376
ISBN-13: 1317878124
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This book brings together a series of articles which provide an overview of the Irish Diaspora from a global perspective. It combines a series of survey articles on the major destinations of the Diaspora; the USA, Britian and the British Empire. On each of these, there is a number of more specialist articles by historians, demographers, economists, sociologists and geographers. The inter-disciplinary approach of the book, with a strong historical and modern focus, provides the first comprehensive survey of the topic.
Sporting Nationalisms
Author: Mike Cronin
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2005-07-08
Total Pages: 244
ISBN-13: 113577708X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This volume examines the ways in which sport shapes the experiences of various immigrant and minority groups and, in particular, looks at the relationship between sport, ethnic identity and ethnic relations. The articles in this volume are concerned primarily with British, American and Australian sporting traditions and the themes covered include the consolidation of ethnic identity in host societies through participation immigrant sports and exclusive sporting organizations, assimilation into host' societies through participation in indigenous, national sports, and the construction by outsiders of separate ethnic identities according to sporting criteria.
The History of Catholic Intellectual Life in Scotland, 1918–1965
Author: Clifford Williamson
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2016-06-10
Total Pages: 259
ISBN-13: 1137333472
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This book offers an innovative approach to the character of the intellectual life of Catholics in Scotland. It looks at Catholic attempts to fight the appeal of communism amongst the working classes in interwar Scotland, it analyses developments in the devotional life of Scottish Catholics and it discusses the unique theological contribution made by Scottish clerics. Chapters also explore the increasing presence of Catholics in Scotland in higher education and their role in shaping change within the Catholic Church. Finally, readers will have the opportunity to learn more about the previously under-researched Catholic Intelligentsia, and the debate within it on the place of Catholicism in the history of Scotland. The History of Catholic Intellectual Life in Scotland, 1918–1965 presents the domestic context of the changing character of Scottish Catholicism, as well as the context of changes in European Catholicism.
The Schooling of Working-Class Girls in Victorian Scotland
Author: Jane McDermid
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2013-01-11
Total Pages: 218
ISBN-13: 1135783381
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The portrayal of Scotland as a particularly patriarchal society has traditionally had the effect of marginalizing Scottish women, both teachers and students, in both Scottish and British history. The Schooling of Working-Class Girls in Victorian Scotland examines and challenges this assumption and analyzes in detail the course of events which has led to a more enlightened system. Education was, and is, seen as integral to Scottish distinctiveness, but the Victorian period saw anxious debate about the impact of outside influences at a time when Scottish society seemed to be fracturing. This book examines the gender-blindness of the educational tradition, with its notion of the 'democratic intellect', testing the claim of superiority for the Scottish system, and questioning the assumption that Scottish women were either passive victims or willing dupes of a peculiarly patriarchal ideal. Considering the influences of the related ideologies of patriarchy and domesticity, and the crucial importance of the local and regional economic context, in focusing on female education, this book provides a much wider comparative study of Scottish society during a period of tremendous upheaval and a perceived crisis in national identity, in which women, as well as men, participated.
Britain, Ireland and the Second World War
Author: Ian S. Wood
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Published: 2010-02-28
Total Pages: 248
ISBN-13: 0748630015
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →For Britain the Second World War exists in popularmemory as a time of heroic sacrifice, survival and ultimate victory overFascism. In the Irish state the years 1939-1945 are still remembered simplyas 'the Emergency'. Eire was one of many small states which in 1939 chosenot to stay out of the war but one of the few able to maintain itsnon-belligerency as a policy.How much this owed to Britain's militaryresolve or to the political skills of amon de Valera is a key questionwhich this new book will explore. It will also examine the tensions Eire'spolicy created in its relations with Winston Churchill and with the UnitedStates. The author also explores propaganda, censorship and Irish statesecurity and the degree to which it involves secret co-operation withBritain. Disturbing issues are also raised like the IRA's relationship toNazi Germany and ambivalent Irish attitudes to the Holocaust.Drawing uponboth published and unpublished sources, this book illustrates the war'simpact on people on both sides of the border and shows how it failed toresolve sectarian problems on Northern Ireland while raising higher thebarriers of misunderstanding between it and the Irish state across itsborder.
Jewish Edinburgh
Author: M.D. Gilfillan
Publisher: McFarland
Published: 2019-02-13
Total Pages: 255
ISBN-13: 0786476680
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This first full-length history of the Jews of Edinburgh chronicles their immigration to Scotland's capital city from Russia during the 1880s in the wake of Tsarist persecution, and examines their reception by native Scots. Smaller than its Glasgow counterpart, the Jewish community in Edinburgh took on greater national significance in part through the career of "Scotland's Rabbi," Dr. Salis Daiches of the Edinburgh Hebrew Congregation. The community would also contribute Scotland's first Jewish member of parliament, as well as the first Jewish president of the Scottish Football League.
New Perspectives on the Irish in Scotland
Author: Martin J. Mitchell
Publisher: Birlinn Ltd
Published: 2008-09-22
Total Pages: 391
ISBN-13: 1788854004
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Irish immigrants and their descendants have made a vital contribution to the creation of modern Scotland. This book is the first collection of essays on the Irish in Scotland for almost twenty years, and brings together for the first time all the leading authorities on the subject. It provides a major reassessment of the Irish immigrant experience and offers social, cultural and religious development of Scotland over the past 200 years.
