'A CENTURY OF THE SCOTTISH PEOPLE, 1830-1950' - Hardcover

SMOUT,T.C.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 000217524X ISBN 13: 9780002175241

Publisher: see notes for publisher info, 1986

Synopsis

Whatever good there was in 18th-century ways of life in Scotland – and notwithstanding the brief Jacobite irruptions, it was on the whole a more peaceful land than England, and increasingly dedicated to Improvement – industrialisation wrought transformation. Smout covered the early stages of the process in his History of the Scottish People. Despite his realism about conditions in the new industries and the sad fate of the handloom weavers, despite his regret at the eclipse of Enlightened rational optimism as Evangelicalism secured a blighting grip on the blackening cities, and despite his conclusion that the tendency for decades before 1830 had been for the culture to become ‘more British and less specifically Scottish’, that book ended with a sense of upbeat. Smout had explored and attempted to explain an astonishing afflatus of intellectual discovery, creative talent and entrepreneurial drive – a ‘cultural golden age’ in one small country which had had, and went on having, world-wide consequences.

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About the Author

Professor T. C. Smout was educated at the Leys School and Clare College, Cambridge. He was appointed to the Personal Chair in Economic History, University of Edinburgh, in 1971, and took up his present position as Professor of Scottish History at the University of St Andrews in 1980. Besides publishing journals, he is the author of Scottish Trade on the Eve of the Union and A History of the Scottish People (the companion to this volume, also availavble from FP), and co-author of Scottish Population History from the Seventeenth Century to the 1930s, The State of the Scottish Working Class in 1943 and Scottish Voices 1745–1960 (also available from FP)

Edition details

• Publisher: see notes for publisher info
• Publication date: 1986
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 000217524X
• ISBN 13: 9780002175241
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 320