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Graeme Morton, Trevor Griffiths - History of Everyday Life in Scotland, 1800 to 1900, Häftad

Häftad, Engelska, 2010

History of Everyday Life in Scotland, 1800 to 1900

Av Graeme Morton, Trevor Griffiths

Del i serien History of Everyday Life in Scotland

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The nineteenth century was a period of profound change in Scottish history. Industrialisation, improved communications, agricultural transformation, country to town migration, upheavals in the church, increased trade, and imperialism – all these affected the pace and rhythm of everyday life across the country. At the same time increased literacy helped to generate new patterns of identity, extending beyond the local to encompass the nation, which challenged certainties of how the world was viewed. With new styles of living came new dangers to the physical and moral health of the population, and increased apprehension of crime and disorder. Industrialisation created opportunities for consumption and recreation but with tangible environmental and economic costs. Rural Scotland adjusted to changes in farming practice and the traumas of population loss and began to look to the opportunities presented by recreation and tourism. The large-scale creation and survival of documentary evidence and records make the study of everyday life during this period practicable in depth for the first time. This volume presents a vivid account that includes the experiences of all the people of Scotland. It draws on every kind of available evidence and on work in social and cultural history, sociology and anthropology.The series will be complete in four volumes. x and x are already available. x is forthcoming.
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Graeme Morton is Professor of Modern History at the University of Dundee having previous held the inaugural Scottish Studies Foundation Chair at the University of Guelph. His research focus falls on national identity, associational culture and diaspora studies. Recent publications include Ourselves and Others: Scotland, 1832–1914 (Edinburgh, 2012), A History of Everyday Life in Scotland, 1800 to 1900 (Edinburgh, 2010) and Irish and Scottish Encounters with Indigenous Peoples (Montreal & Kingston, 2013). Trevor Griffiths is Reader in Economic and Social History at the University of Edinburgh. Educated at the University of Oxford, he has carried out research on working-class society in Britain in the early twentieth century, before turning more recently to examine aspects of popular culture. He was Co-Investigator on the three-year AHRC research project, ‘Early Scottish Cinema, 1896-1927’.

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Given the high quality of the series so far, it is no surprise that there is much to commend the book. It covers a diverse range of topics, and it manages to strike a good balance between Highland and Lowlad, urban and rural... Most strkiingly, it is highly interdisciplinary, drawing uppon scientific, sociological and anthropological methodologies to provide a rich and original account of the everyday... Overall, A History of Everyday Life in Scotland 1800-1900 will doubtlessly and deservedly establish itself as a crucial asset for student of 19th century Scotland. As a simple collection of interesting and informative essays it is successful enough, but, in common with the previous entries in the series, its true value lies in its ability to synthesise exisiting research, while simultaneously advertising the exciting new ways in which Scottish historical scholarship could develop over the coming years. At once a compendium and a rallying cry, it represents a valuable addition to the exisiting literature.

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