SCOTLAND HISTORY

Industrial Revolution in Scotland by Christopher A. Whatley

Publisher's Synopsis
This is a succinct and accessible account of the Industrial Revolution in Scotland. Dr. Whatley's approach is largely comparative, with the Scottish experience of industrialization being placed within the context of the debate about the "British" Industrial Revolution. This study encompasses the whole of Scotland and assesses the nature and impact of early industrialization in the towns of the Borders and in Dundee, as well as in the Highlands and Islands. Social and economic causes and consequences are also fully considered.

Industrial Nation by William W. Knox

Synopsis
Generously illustrated with contemporary maps, photos, and drawings, this is a social and cultural history of Scotland's industrial rise and relative decline, concerned above all with the leaders and workers (industrail, political, manufacturing, mining and engineering, as well as religious, union, eduational, and moral) who produced the first and suffered in the second. Political, social, and economic events, movements and trens are welded together in a well-ordered and vivid narrative. It assumes almost no prior knowledge, and introduces the reader gently to the nature and course of modern Scottish history. The style is clear and sparse, with frequent dry, witty asides.