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Disabled Soldiers and Sailors, Pensions and Training (Cla...

Devine, Edward T.
Disabled Soldiers and Sailors, Pensions and Training (Classic Reprint)
Excerpt from Disabled Soldiers and Sailors, Pensions and TrainingAt the moment in the history of civilization when the economic usefulness of the individual worker has been carried to the high est point of progress in the arts and sciences, by the organiza tion of industry and by the accumulation of capital, a world war has suddenly exposed to the risk of disablement a wholly un precedented number of the world's workers. Never before have so m...

CHF 37.90

The Scottish Experience in Asia, c.1700 to the Present

Devine, T. M. / McCarthy, Angela
The Scottish Experience in Asia, c.1700 to the Present
This pioneering volume focuses on the scale, territorial trajectories, impact, economic relationships, identity and nature of the Scottish-Asia connection from the late seventeenth century to the present. It is especially concerned with identifying whether there was a distinctive Scottish experience and if so, what effect it had on the East. Did Scots bring different skills to Asia and how far did their backgrounds prepare them in different wa...

CHF 135.00

The Denver Tramway Strike of 1920

Devine, Edward T.
The Denver Tramway Strike of 1920
Excerpt from The Denver Tramway Strike of 1920: Report of an Investigation Made Under the Auspices of the Denver Commission of Religious Forces, the Commission on the Church and Social Service of the Federal Council of the Churches of Christ in AmericaWhen the investigation was completed, the report was reviewed, and an oral summary of the findings was pre sented to a third meeting of churchmen at the Albany Hotel, on Saturday, November 27, wh...

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Clanship to Crofters' War

Devine, T.
Clanship to Crofters' War
Received to wide acclaim when first published in the 1990s, this absorbing book remains one of the most important, influential and widely-read histories of the Scottish Highlands from the end of the Jacobite Risings to the great crofters' rebellion of the 1880s. T. M. Devine argues that the Highlands in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries saw the wholesale transformation of a society at a pace without parallel anywhere else in western Euro...

CHF 42.50