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REVIEWS 129 Edinburgh University Press, Edinburgh, 2010. xiv þ 433 pp. ISBN 978-0- 7486-1315-1, £22.99. This, the latest addition to the New Edinburgh History of Scotland series, is a weighty read of more than 400 pages. It is also, as its Bibliography reveals, a synthesis of the existing secondary literature on Scotland’s history since 1880. In the book, which is divided into two parts—pre- and post-1945—Ewen A. Cameron is primarily concerned with covering similar key themes in both sections: Scotland’s society, economy, and politics. While these central themes shape most chapters, some topics receive extended treatment in their own chapters: the Great War and the 1970s. Other subjects encompassed within these overarching themes are population growth, demographic transition, urbaniza- tion, housing, emigration, education, religion, and recreation. Acknowledging that after 1945 ‘the biggest changes have come in the social and economic field’ (p. 4), Cameron advises the reader that Scotland’s political landscape is at the book’s core. Beginning in 1880, due in part to the influence of Ireland’s Home Rule debate on Scottish drives in the late nineteenth century for a form of independence, the book adopts a long, twentieth-century approach. Indeed, the Irish influence on various aspects of Scottish
Twentieth Century British History – Oxford University Press
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