A New Race of Men: Scotland 1815-1914

by Michael Fry

In his new book on Scotland 1815 - 1914, Michael Fry goes well beyond the conventional analyses of the economy and society to which previous histories have confined themselves. Here the central thread of the story is not steady assimilation to the norms of the United Kingdom but the survival of distinct forms of Scottishness that both derived from an independent past and laid the foundations for the reassertion of nationality in the present time...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1780271425
• ISBN13: 9781780271422
• Release Date: November 2013
• Publisher: Birlinn Publishers
• Length: 466 Pages
• Weight: 2.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.9" x 6.1" x 9.3"