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    A New Race of Men: Scotland 1815-1914
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    A New Race of Men: Scotland 1815-1914

    By Michael Fry

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    War opened and closed Scotland's greatest century: a pitiless part in the defeat of Naploeon in 1815, a huge blood-sacrifice for the sake of victory from 1914. In between came the greatest contributions to the progress and happiness of the rest of mankind that the Scots have ever made - in everything from the combine harvester to the mackintosh to anaesthesia. It was a supremely successful achieving society yet one not without deep flaws, in its urban poverty, its destruction of the environment, its religious intolerance, its moral hypocrisy, its crushing of Highland culture. Michael Fry shows, with an emphasis always on the human story, how a succession of deep crises undermined the usually tranquil and prosperous surface of life in Victorian Scotland to leave a legacy of paradox that the modern nation has even today yet to overcome.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBirlinn
    Release dateOct 3, 2013
    ISBN9780857906595
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    Michael Fry

    Michael Fry has been a cartoonist and bestselling writer for over thirty years. He has created or cocreated four internationally syndicated comic strips, including Over the Hedge, which is featured in newspapers nationwide and was adapted into the DreamWorks Animation hit animated movie of the same name. He is also the author and illustrator of the bestselling middle grade novel series How to Be a Supervillain and The Odd Squad. He lives on a small ranch near Austin, Texas, with his wife, Kim, and a dozen or so unnamed shrub-eating cows. Follow him on Twitter at @MFryActual.  

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