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10%OFFIrene Maver - Glasgow - 9781853312243 - V9781853312243
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Glasgow

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Description for Glasgow Paperback. This new and extensively illustrated history explores the reality behind stereotypical views of Glasgow. Series: Town and City Histories. Num Pages: 256 pages, 50 photos. BIC Classification: 1DBKSC; HBJD1; HBLL; HBLW; HBTB; KCZ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 243 x 173 x 18. Weight in Grams: 642.
Glasgow is enshrined in the popular consciousness as a city of multiple and often contradictory identities. The 'Second City of Empire', the 'Venice of the North', 'Red Clydeside' and the 'Merchant City' are a few of the phrases that have been used to project the Glasgow image, positively and negatively. This new and extensively illustrated history explores the reality behind these stereotypes, showing Glasgow's considerable longevity as a Scottish ecclesiastical and commercial centre, yet focusing on the profound social, economic and political changes over the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Glasgow uses much original material to illustrate the rich ... Read more

Product Details

Publisher
Edinburgh University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Series
Town and City Histories
Condition
New
Number of Pages
350
Place of Publication
Keele, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781853312243
SKU
V9781853312243
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Ref
99-50

About Irene Maver
Irene Maver is Lecturer in Scottish History at the University of Glasgow.

Reviews for Glasgow
Virtually each double page has some appealing image, and this visual clarity is matched by clarity of exposition. Will Glaswegians know their city better for Irene Maver's book? Yes - very definitely. In this single volume there is much to inform the local historian, undergraduate, and scholar. The images are striking, and prose accessible. The fusion of the political dimension ... Read more

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