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Paperback. Condition: Very Good. How the Scots Took Over London This book is in very good condition and will be shipped within 24 hours of ordering. The cover may have some limited signs of wear but the pages are clean, intact and the spine remains undamaged. This book has clearly been well maintained and looked after thus far. Money back guarantee if you are not satisfied. See all our books here, order more than 1 book and get discounted shipping. .…

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Hardcover. Condition: As New. Like New. Edinburgh, 2004; blue cloth covered boards; minimal shelf wear; glossy illustrated jacket with mild wear; 12mo - over 6 3/4" to 7 3/4" tall; Interior is clean and unmarked; 240 pages.

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Paperback. Condition: Very Good. FIRST THUS. First Edition Thus, First Printing. Published by Mainstream Publishing, 2005. Octavo. Paperback. Book is very good with sticker residue on the back cover, and light creasing to the spine. 100% positive feedback. 30 day money back guarantee. NEXT DAY SHIPPING! Excellent customer service. Please email with any questions. All books packed carefully and ship with free delivery confirmation/tracking. All books come with free bookmarks. Ships from Sag Harbor, New York.…

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Hardcover. Octavo, 376 pages. In Very Good condition with a Very Good dust jacket. Spine green with yellow and white lettering. Dust jacket protected with a mylar covering. Text block head edge colored gray with light yellowish tone to fore and tail edges. Illustrated. 1369704. FP New Rockville Stock.…

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Hardback. Condition: Very Good. David Stenhouse?s On The Make: How the Scots Took Over London is about that long and suspiciously successful habit of Scots heading south, looking at London with a mixture of contempt, opportunity and weather-related relief, and then quietly inserting themselves into its politics, finance, journalism, law, medicine, literature, crime, clubs, pubs, offices and arguments. The title suggests invasion, but of the most practical kind: no bagpipes at dawn, just ambition, education, nerve, and someone suddenly running the place. London has always claimed to be the centre of everything, which is exactly the sort of claim that attracts Scots with notebooks, schemes and a healthy willingness to contradict. Stenhouse follows the generations who came down from Scotland and made themselves inconveniently important: professionals, entrepreneurs, intellectuals, rogues, reformers, grandees, journalists, publishers, politicians and operators. The capital may have imagined it was absorbing them. The Scots, judging by the evidence, appear to have been taking minutes. There is a fine irony in the phrase ?took over London,? because London is less a city than a machine for pretending it invented everyone who succeeds there. Arrive poor, clever, sharp-elbowed or overqualified; survive the rent; acquire contacts; speak firmly; and eventually the city will say you were one of its own all along. The Scots, having long experience of being both inside and outside Britain?s power structures, were unusually well equipped for this little dance. They could belong and not belong at the same time, which is practically a London superpower. This is a book about migration within the same kingdom, which means all the usual themes arrive wearing better tailoring: class, accent, education, patronage, prejudice, hustle, networks, reinvention and the ancient metropolitan fear that someone from elsewhere might be better at the game. London offers scale and money; Scotland supplies brains, restlessness, grievance, Presbyterian stamina and a talent for making themselves impossible to ignore. Between them, they produce careers, institutions and the occasional national sulk. Stenhouse?s subject is not merely success but the performance of success. ?On the make? has that lovely double edge: ambition as energy, ambition as suspicion. A Scot in London may be admired as industrious, mocked as pushy, envied as competent, or accused of taking over simply by having the bad manners to do well. The phrase carries the whole comedy of British class life: everyone worships advancement, provided it happens with the correct accent and no one is too obvious about wanting it. For readers of Scottish history, London history, social mobility, British politics, journalism, biography-by-theme, or the national sport of wondering who is really running the country, this is a lively and pointed volume. It belongs on the shelf where identity, ambition and geography are allowed to argue in public. Very Good copy, as sold by Crappy Old Books. A smart survivor of a book about Scots going south and making themselves at home in the capital, which is to say: very little damage, considerable intent, and no sign of apologising for its presence.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. the jacket is a little edgeworn and a bit rubbed. creasing. a little cocked. bumped. a bit marked. no inscriptions and tightly bound. [P.N.]. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.

Condition: Very Good. Very Good condition. No Dust Jacket (Comparative Psychology, Animal Intelligence) A copy that may have a few cosmetic defects. May also contain light spine creasing or a few markings such as an owner's name, short gifter's inscription or light stamp.

Condition: Good. 1966. First Edition. 97 pages. No dust jacket. This is an ex-Library book. Black cloth with gilt lettering. Diagrams by Jonathon Wuad and Phillippa Strange. Library copy, with expected inserts and inscriptions. Pages are lightly tanned and thumbed at the edges, with light foxing. Binding has remained firm. Boards are a little rub worn, slight shelf wear to corners, spine and edges. Corners are a little bumped. Spine ends are mildly crushed. Light tanning to spine and edges. …