Download or read book Who Belongs to Glasgow written by Mary Edward and published by Luath Press Ltd. This book was released on 2020-04-24 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why are there so many Italian hairdressers and Chinese restaurants in Glasgow? Who's more Glaswegian: an Irishman, a Highlander or a Pole? Whos city is this anyway? For the past 200 years, immigrants to Glasgow have found prosperity and poverty in its streets and closes. Mary Edward investigates their history, and the contribution they have brought to the city. With clear-sighted social analysis and an impressive assembly of historical evidence, Edward weaves a vivid tapestry of the many peoples and cultures that have created contemporary Glasgow. The staggering diversity of languages, religions and ethnicities is no new phenomenon in this city on the Clyde. Today's Glasweigans are the children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren of yesterday's incomers, all of whom have chosen this great Scottish melting pot as their own. This book will be an education and a delight to generations of Glasweigans - and all those proud to belong to Glasgow.
Download or read book Fusion written by Eliza Jane Goes and published by Trafford Publishing. This book was released on 2007-09-17 with total page 303 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On one level Fusion is the story of 94 year old Gloria Hagberg, famous 'Granny of the Airlifts' of 1960s Kenya, waiting in the wings while the mixed race son of one of her protgs, Barack Obama, aims for the presidency of the USA. On another level the story of ELLA MACKAY begins when she is six in remote 1953 Scotland. EWAN CAMERON inspirational sole teacher of 35 pupils instils a sense of justice and an understanding of human diversity. Ella goes to teach in 1968 Kenya, leaving her family traumatised. She lands in a kaleidoscopic society of multinational idealistic colleagues, earnest African schoolchildren, neo colonials, frightened Asians, religious zealots, corrupt politicians and Pan African Socialists. Ella gets tangled up, via JOHN FRANCIS, nephew of the assassinated Pio Gama Pinto, in a dangerous plan to prevent the assassination of TOM MBOYA popular possible successor to the President. Ella helps to save Mboya's life then later meets him at the home of GLORIA HAGBERG. A huge secret is uncovered. MIKE KILPATRICK tempts Ella to consider life on a farm in post colonial Kenya. His sister NAN, maimed during Mau Mau, pulls at Ella's heartstrings. Both Mike and John propose to Ella but she returns to Scotland. The story moves to 2006/7 with the reflections of an older Ella on how migration has and could contribute to cultural fusion. Meantime Gloria is watching the USA Presidential campaign. If Obama wins it would be more than a triumph for fusion. It would be justice.
Download or read book The Complete Patter written by Michael Munro and published by Birlinn. This book was released on 2013-10-06 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Do you have a baldy clue as to who the bears and junglies are? Confused by the thought of some cheekywatter from your cargo? Fancy a day out at Fort Weetabix? Or would you rather settle down with some swedgers? After all, you don't want to be a stank dodger. Confused? You need this book. Michael Munro has won the eternal gratitude of Glaswegians for his efforts in popularising their city's dialect, universally known as the 'patter'. This book is the most extensive collection of this rich and expressive language ever made. Often hilarious, sometimes coarse (but never dull!), good knowledge of the patter is the key to understanding Glasgow and its inhabitants.
Download or read book No Problem Here written by Neil Davidson and published by Luath Press Ltd. This book was released on 2018-03-15 with total page 307 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Does Scotland have a problem with racism? With its 'civic nationalism' and 'welcoming' attitude towards migrants and refugees, Scotland is understood to be relatively free of structural and institutional racism. As the contributors to this book show, such generalisations fail to withstand serious investigation. Their research into the historical record and contemporary reality tells a very different story. Opening up a debate on a subject that has been shut down for too long, No Problem Here gathers together the views of academics, activists and anti-racism campaigners who argue that it is vital that the issue of racism be brought into the centre of public discourse. Scotland's role in maintaining and extending slavery across the British Empire is finally beginning to receive the attention it deserves. Yet there is much more that needs to be said about racism in Scotland today.
Download or read book History of Kentucky written by William Elsey Connelley and published by . This book was released on 1912 with total page 932 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Us and Them written by Bridget Anderson and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2013-03-22 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Us and Them? explores the distinction between migrant and citizen through using the concept of 'the community of value'. The community of value is comprised of Good Citizens and is defined from outside by the Non-Citizen and from the inside by the Failed Citizen, that is figures like the benefit scrounger, the criminal, the teenage mother etc. While Failed Citizens and Non-Citizens are often strongly differentiated, the book argues that it is analytically and politically productive to to consider them together. Judgments about who counts as skilled, what is a good marriage, who is suitable for citizenship, and what sort of enforcement is acceptable against 'illegals', affect citizens as well as migrants. Rather than simple competitors for the privileges of membership, citizens and migrants define each other through sets of relations that shift and are not straightforward binaries. The first two chapters on vagrancy and on Empire historicise migration management by linking it to attempts to control the mobility of the poor. The following three chapters map and interrogate the concept of the 'national labour market' and UK immigration and citizenship policies examining how they work within public debate to produce 'us and them'. Chapters 6 and 7 go on to discuss the challenges posed by enforcement and deportation, and the attempt to make this compatible with liberalism through anti-trafficking policies. It ends with a case study of domestic labour as exemplifying the ways in which all the issues outlined above come together in the lives of migrants and their employers.
Download or read book Imperial Cities written by Felix Driver and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2003-10-17 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The fifteen essays in this book explore the influence of imperialism in a range of urban centres, including London, Paris, Rome, Vienna, Marseilles, Glasgow and Seville. The first part on "imperial landscapes" is devoted to large-scale architectural schemes and monuments, including the Queen Victoria Memorial in London and the Vittoriano in Rome. In the second part, the focus is on imperial display throughout the city, from spectacular exhibitions and ceremonies, to more private displays of empire in suburban gardens. The final part considers the changing cultural and political identities in the imperial city, looking particularly at nationalism, masculinity and anti-imperialism.
Download or read book Webster s World written by Jack Webster and published by Black & White Publishing. This book was released on 1997-10-23 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jack Webster is one of the most popular journalists writing in Scotland today. Voted Columnist of the Year in 1996, his first collection of Herald columns was a bestseller. This book presents another collection of his writings.
Download or read book The National Cyclopaedia of Useful Knowledge written by and published by . This book was released on 1853 with total page 1040 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Totally Frank written by Frank McGarvey and published by Random House. This book was released on 2011-03-25 with total page 157 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During a glorious but controversial career, Frank McGarvey won every major trophy in Scottish football. Under Alex Ferguson at St Mirren in the 1970s, he inspired a young Saints team to victory in the First Division - an effort that attracted the attention of English giants Liverpool and Scotland manager Jock Stein. After a frustrating spell at Anfield, he headed back north to join boyhood heroes Celtic, with whom he won five medals in five seasons. However, he was shown the door by Davie Hay just days after scoring the winner for the club in the 1985 Scottish Cup final. McGarvey then returned to St Mirren, with whom he won the Scottish Cup two years later, and he continued his success after a move into management, helping Clyde to win the Second Division trophy. But this is only half of Frank McGarvey's story. Throughout his remarkable career and beyond, McGarvey fought and, for the most part, lost a battle with gambling, which cost him his marriage, home and self-respect. In Totally Frank, McGarvey chronicles his many highs and lows, and reveals how he finally succeeded in overcoming his gambling addiction.
Download or read book 50 People Who Screwed Up Scotland written by Allan Brown and published by Constable. This book was released on 2014-05-15 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: To be Scottish is to have a lot to live down, and as Allan Brown shows, this lot do the job superbly. Whether it be Robert Burns, indecipherable bard of rustic gibberish or Sean Connery, die-hard advocate of a country he refuses to live in. Or, Alex Salmond, the chortling bullfrog of separatism or Tommy Sheridan, the sexy socialist hardliner. They’re all here, and many others; a veritable embassy of bad ambassadors. 50 People Who Screwed Up Scotland is a humorous and chronologically-sequential series of essays, histories and anecdotes that consider those episodes and occurrences in Scotland's political, cultural and social story where, against all odds, defeat was plucked from the jaws of victory.
Download or read book The Glasgow Encyclopedia written by Joe Fisher and published by Trafalgar Square Publishing. This book was released on 1994 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Alphabetically ordered information about Glasgow's past and present.
Download or read book The Acts of the Parliaments of Scotland A D M C XXIV A D M DCC VII written by Scotland and published by . This book was released on 1823 with total page 610 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Glasgow Wiseguys written by Joe Dullerson and published by . This book was released on 2005-12-01 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Glasgow Wiseguys (part 1) Glasgow Wiseguys and smart alecs embark on a lurid journey of Decline and Fall in keeping with the fine traditions of Scottish rebellion.. Non-conformity is the only way out of the authoritarian Presbyterian trap as the demons of Calvin's heritage are exorcised through lowlife meanderings and involvement with the less salubrious side of life. Glasgow Wiseguys Out of Order (part 2) Glasgow wiseguy Hector McKay sees himself as the agent of Dr.Skull, a robot version of God. In due course, after failing to belong and conform, he finds himself in the hands of a world totalitarian system and ends up dying after electric shock treatment in a high security mental hospital. Glasgow Wiseguys Over the Top (part 3) Most people have no idea what to do and as un-reconstituted male dinosaurs Kenneth, Mickey, Bill and Archie are no exception. They are lost in a new world dominated by women who have no patience with traditional men and their antediluvian emotions. _____________________________________________________________________ The book is written with pathos, black humour and gives an original perspective on the contemporary post-hippy outlook.
Download or read book New Scots written by Tom M. Devine and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2018-06-21 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Looks at all aspects of the pivotal intellectual relationship between two key figures of the Enlightenment
Download or read book Collins Dictionary of Scottish History written by Ian L. Donnachie and published by HarperCollins (UK). This book was released on 2001 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Alphabetically arranged entries provide information on the major and minor events and figures of Scottish history from the tenth century through the present.
