No Gods and Precious Few Heroes
Author | : Christopher Harvie |
Publisher | : Edinburgh University Press |
Total Pages | : 192 |
Release | : 2016-04-30 |
ISBN-10 | : 9780748682577 |
ISBN-13 | : 0748682570 |
Rating | : 4/5 (77 Downloads) |
Download or read book No Gods and Precious Few Heroes written by Christopher Harvie and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2016-04-30 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This introductory history takes Scotland through two world wars and subsequent social exhaustion, through the re-energising adjustments loosely referred to as 'the sixties' to a final endgame of Union versus Independence. The novel structure of Harvie's history mirrors that of a grand engineering project, or a structure as complex as the Forth Railway Bridge: 'three periods of change rendered as towers, and two great cantilevered arches of life-in-common, over which day-to-day life proceeds'.