A century of the Scottish people 1830-1950 / T.C. Smout.

Smout, T. C. (T. Christopher), 1933-, author

London : Collins, 1986.

xiv,318 pages, (36) pages of plates : illustrations, portraits ; 24 cm.

Includes index.

Contents
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgements-- Introduction
I - Scotland in the 1830's and 1840's
II - The Tenement City
III - Leaving and Staying on in the Countryside
IV - A working life in industry
V - The Rewards of Industry
VI - Drink, Temperance and Recreation
VII - Sex, Love and Getting Married
VIII - Churchgoing
IX - The Aims and Failures of Education
X - The Working-Class Radical Tradition to 1885
XI - The Rise and Fall of Socialist Idealism
Notes, References and further Reading
Index

T. C. Smout's A History of the Scottish People 1560-1830 was hailed by some of his fellow historians as the best book on Scottish History for fifty years; it immediately established itself as a standard work. In this long-awaited sequel, Professor Smout paints an unforgettable picture of Scotland in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. His focus throughout is on the majority of the Scottish population, the working people and the poor, and his book is a detailed exploration of a complex world of deprivation and social division. Life in tenement and factory, croft and fishing village; drink and temperance; religion in schism and decline; sex and marriage; emigration from country to town - each is examined in the light of the author's wide research and reading. He presents a detailed analysis of Scottish educational system, demolishing the myth of Scottish education being 'the best in the world'. And he concludes with a critique of the radical and socialist traditions which seemed to offer the working class a way forward, but ended in disillusion. Written with all the vigour and point that were so much admired in T.C. Smout's earlier book, and illustrated with a remarkable collection of photograhs and illustrations. A Century of the Scottish People is social history at its best - a work of exceptional scholarship that is, first and last, concerned with people, real people, in their own environment.

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English

Scotland
1830-1950
Tenements
Slums
Industry
Drink, Temperance and recreation
Church history
Education
Politics
SCOTTISH SOCIAL HISTORY

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