No Gods and Precious Few Heroes

No Gods and Precious Few Heroes
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Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Total Pages : 192
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ISBN-10 : 9780748682577
ISBN-13 : 0748682570
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Book Synopsis No Gods and Precious Few Heroes by : Christopher Harvie

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'.


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