No Gods and Precious Few Heroes : Edinburgh University Press : 9780748682362 : 0748682368 : 30 Apr 2016 : A colourful and stimulating history of modern Scotland This introductory history takes Scotland through two world wars and subsequent social exhaustion, through the re-energising adjustments loosely referred to as ?the sixties' to a final endgame of Union versus Independence. The novel structure of Harvie's history mirrors that of a grand engineering project, or a structure as complex as the Forth Railway Bridge: ?three periods of change rendered as towers, and two great cantilevered arches of life-in-common, over which day-to-day life proceeds'. Key Features: A final narrative of ?Union versus Independence'Thematically rebuilt chapters: Economy/Society/Politics/CultureThe ?60s' reinterpretedFrom the APF (JW to ammend) ?When No Gods and Precious Few Heroes first appeared in 1981 Paul Addison, in the English Historical Review, called Christopher Harvie's book ?a masterly syn