List Of Writers

HARVIE, CHRISTOPHER

Historian. Professor of British and Irish Studies at Tubingen University and the leading historian of twentieth–century Scotland, with two classic works, Scotland and Nationalism (Allen and Unwin, 1977) and No Gods and Precious Few Heroes: Twentieth–Century Scotland (Edward Arnold, 1981). Educated at the High School and University of Edinburgh, a pioneer of distance learning at the Open University, and a polymath in the tradition of Adam Smith and Patrick Geddes, Harvie has also written on North Sea Oil, the British Political novel, the Oxbridge elite and European regionalisation.

Selected Publications:
The Lights of Liberalism (Allen Lane, 1976)
Scotland and Nationalism (Allen and Unwin, 1977)
No Gods and Precious Few Heroes: Twentieth-Century Scotland (Edward Arnold, 1981)
The Centre of Things (Unwin Hyman, 1991)
The Rise of Regional Europe (Routledge, 1994)
Fool’s Gold: The Story of North Sea Oil (Hamish Hamilton, 1994)
Travelling Scot (Argyll, 1999)
Deep-Fried Hillman Imp: Scotland’s Transport (Argyll, 2001)
Scotland, A Short History (Oxford University Press, 2002)
A Floating Commonwealth: Politics, Culture, and Technology on Britain’s Atlantic Coast, 1860-1930 (Oxford University Press, 2008)

Contributed to:
The Road to Home Rule (co-writer) (Edinburgh University Press, 2000)
Nation in a State: Scotland After 300 Years of Union (contributor) (Ten Book Press, 2007)