Christopher Harvie

Author of Nineteenth-Century Britain: A Very Short Introduction

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About the Author

Christopher Harvie, Professor of British and Irish Studies at the University of Tbingen, has written extensively on UK and Scottish history. A founder-historian at the Open University, 1969-80, he is the author of over sixteen books, including A Floating Commonwealth (2008), Scotland: A Short show more History (2014) and the historical novel Dalriada (2015). He was a Member of the Scottish Parliament, 2007-11. show less

Includes the names: Christopher T Harvie, CHRISTOPHER HARVIE (EDITOR)

Works by Christopher Harvie

A Short History of Scotland (2002) 50 copies

Industrialisation and culture, 1830-1914; (Open University set book, arts foundation course) (1970) 37 copies

No Gods and Precious Few Heroes: Scotland Since 1914 (1981) 35 copies

Scotland and Nationalism: Scottish Society and Politics 1707 to the Present (1938) 34 copies

Fool's Gold: Story of North Sea Oil (1994) 15 copies

Broonland: The Last Days of Gordon Brown (2010) 10 copies

The Lights of Liberalism (1976) 6 copies

The Rise of Regional Europe (Historical Connections) (1994) 6 copies

The Centre of Things: Political Fiction in Britain from Disraeli to the Present (1991) 6 copies

The Road to Home Rule (2000) 5 copies

The industrialisation process (1975) 5 copies

Travelling Scot: Essays on the History, Politics and Future of the Scots (1999) 5 copies

A Floating Commonwealth: Politics, Culture, and Technology on Britain's Atlantic Coast, 1860-1930 (2008) 3 copies

Arts - Foundation Course: Twentieth Century Responses to Industrialization (Course A101) (1978) 3 copies

Age of Revolutions (Course A202) (1972) 2 copies

Arts - Foundation Course: Key Concepts (Course A101) (1978) 2 copies

Cultural weapons, Scotland and survival in a new Europe (1992) 2 copies

War and Society (Course A301) (1973) 2 copies

Scotland the Brief (2013) 1 copy

Deep-fried Hillman Imp: Scotland's Transport (2001) 1 copy

Schotland (2006) 1 copy

A309 - Block 1 Parts 1 and 2 (1980) 1 copy

The Folk and the Gwerin : the myth and reality of popular culture in 19th century Scotland and Wales (1992) 1 copy

Dalriada: A Romance of Invention (2015) 1 copy

The Bulletin of Scottish Politics, No.2, Spring 1981 1 copy

Europe and the Welsh nation (1995) 1 copy

Mending Scotland: Essays in Economic Regionalism (2004) 1 copy

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Associated Works

The Thirty-Nine Steps (1915) — Editor, some editions — 5,406 copies

Welsh history review, vol. 8, no. 1, June 1976 (1976) — Reviewer — 2 copies

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Birthdate: 1944-09-21
Gender: male
Nationality: UK
Organizations: University of Tübingen

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Broonland: The Last Days of Gordon Brown by Christopher Harvie

A tedious and unenlightening book about the doomed Prime Minister.

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JohnPhelan | Oct 4, 2016 |

Nineteenth-century Britain: A Very Short Int… by Christopher Harvie

Chronologically confusing, following themes rather than a reign by reign or government by government approach.

My overall impression of this British history series is that they work better as refresher courses rather than introductions, despite the titles.

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Robertgreaves | 3 other reviews | Aug 16, 2011 |

Nineteenth-Century Britain: A Very Short Int… by Christopher Harvie

Really short into to the Nineteenth Century in Britain. Short, but informative.

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Anagarika | 3 other reviews | Nov 3, 2009 |

Nineteenth-Century Britain: A Very Short Int… by Christopher Harvie

This appears to be a CliffNotes version of a longer textbook. It requires a fair amount of knowledge of English history background, the subject is so vast that names, events and places are not explained by assumed to be understood. It's sort of the worst of all worlds, a text loaded with dry statistics and no central "big picture", then condensed. Parts are good, worth skimming through and picking out the sections and chapters of interest and for the recent bibliography.

--Review by Stephen Balbach, via CoolReading (c) 2008 cc-by-nd… (more)

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