{"product_id":"no-gods-and-precious-few-christopher-harvie-9780748682560","title":"No Gods and Precious Few Heroes: Scotland 1900-2015","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA colourful and stimulating history of modern Scotland\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThis introductory history takes Scotland through two world wars and subsequent social exhaustion, through the re-energising adjustments loosely referred to as 'the sixties' to a final endgame of Union versus Independence. The novel structure of Harvie's history mirrors that of a grand engineering project, or a structure as complex as the Forth Railway Bridge: 'three periods of change rendered as towers, and two great cantilevered arches of life-in-common, over which day-to-day life proceeds'. \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eKey Features: \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cul\u003e \u003cli\u003eA final narrative of 'Union versus Independence'\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eThematically rebuilt chapters: Economy\/Society\/Politics\/Culture\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eThe '60s' reinterpreted\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e \u003cp\u003eFrom the APF (JW to ammend)\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e'When \u003ci\u003eNo Gods and Precious Few Heroes\u003c\/i\u003e first appeared in 1981 Paul Addison, in the \u003ci\u003eEnglish Historical Review\u003c\/i\u003e, called Christopher Harvie's book 'a masterly synthesis of the most important political, economic social and cultural developments in Scotland's recent past, written too with great wit and style.' Updated in 1987, after two further editions in 1996 and 2000 comes this near- total refashioning. 'Starting and finishing in melodrama', its much-travelled author, after living with politics and media in Europe, assesses the new parliamentary state against thirty-five turbulent, vertiginous years. Narrative and episodes shift from squaddies in Iraq camps to working mothers reclaiming civic life from failing religion and big crime. Traceable all-too -often to an untended past, the demand for 'love patience and power to absolve those tormented' might at last - through most unusual politics - be getting to it \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Christopher Harvie\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0748682562\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780748682560\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Edinburgh University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/24\/2016\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 256\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.70lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.70d","brand":"Christopher Harvie","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44120142938367,"sku":"9780748682560","price":23.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_3e0f06b1-4287-438c-adb6-b83ee99b7b2d.jpg?v=1687412778","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/no-gods-and-precious-few-christopher-harvie-9780748682560","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}