The Flowers of the Forest: Scotland and the First World War - Couverture rigide

Royle, Trevor

 
9781843410300: The Flowers of the Forest: Scotland and the First World War
Couverture rigide
ISBN 10 : 1843410303 ISBN 13 : 9781843410300
Editeur : Birlinn Ltd, 2006

Synopsis

On the brink of the First World War, Scotland was regarded throughout the British Isles as 'the workshop of the Empire'. Not only were Clyde-built ships known the world over, Scotland produced half of Britain's total production of railway equipment, and the cotton and jute industries flourished in Paisley and Dundee. In addition, Scots were a hugely important source of manpower for the colonies. Yet after the war, Scotland became an industrial and financial backwater. Emigration increased as morale slumped in the face of economic stagnation and decline. The country had paid a disproportionately high price in casualties, a result of huge numbers of volunteers and the use of Scottish battalions as shock troops in the fighting on the Western Front and Gallipoli - young men whom the novelist Ian Hay called 'the vanished generation'.

In this book, Trevor Royle provides the first full account of how the war changed Scotland irrevocably by exploring a wide range of themes - the overwhelming response to the call for volunteers; the performance of Scottish military formations in 1915 and 1916; the militarization of the Scottish homeland; the resistance to war in Glasgow and the west of Scotland; and the boom in the heavy industries and the strengthening of women's role in society following on from wartime employment.

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À propos de l?auteur

Trevor Royle is an outstanding historian of war and empire. His books include Facing the Bear: Scotland and the Cold War, The Flowers of the Forest: Scotland and the First World War and A Time of Tyrants: Scotland and the Second World War. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh and a member of the Scottish Government’s Advisory Panel for Commemorating the First World War.

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Éditeur
Birlinn Ltd
Date d'édition
2006
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1843410303
ISBN 13 
9781843410300
Reliure
Relié
Nombre de pages
320
Coordonnées du fabricant
non disponible
Personne responsable
non disponible

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9781843410409: The Flowers of the Forest: Scotland and the First World War

Edition présentée

ISBN 10 :  1843410400 ISBN 13 :  9781843410409
Editeur : Birlinn Ltd, 2007
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