General Editor’s Preface

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Tables and Illustrations vii
4. Acknowledgements ix
5. Abbreviations xi
6. General Editor’s Preface xiii
7. Introduction 1
8. Part One
9. Chapter 1 Progress and Poverty: Scottish Society, 1880 to 1914 7
10. Chapter 2 Enterprise and Initiative: The Scottish Economy, 1880 to 1939 35
11. Chapter 3 ‘An Exuberant Verbosity’: Scottish Politics in the 1880s 54
12. Chapter 4 ‘Volcanic Upheavals’: Scottish Politics before the Great War 79
13. Chapter 5 ‘Ower the Hill’: Scotland and the Great War 102
14. Chapter 6 Poverty without Progress? Scottish Society in the Inter- war Period 125
15. Chapter 7 ‘Miracles and Politics Don’t Mix’: Political Change in the Inter- war Period 150
16. Chapter 8 Total War, 1939 to 1945 175
17. Part Two
18. Chapter 9 The Social Revolution: Scottish Society since 1945 199
19. Chapter 10 The End of Industrial Scotland: The Economy since 1945 236
20. Chapter 11 Unionist Scotland: Politics, 1945 to 1970 263
21. Chapter 12 The 1970s: A Decade of Scottish Politics 289
22. Chapter 13 Mothering Devolution: Scottish Politics, 1979 to 1997 320
23. Chapter 14 New Labour, New Parliament, New Scotland? 349
24. Bibliography 372
25. Index 421