Defining Moments in the Life of Nations

by Edwards, Owen Dudley

• ISBN13: 9781910745557
• ISBN10: 1910745553
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2020-01-01
• Publisher: Luath Press Ltd

Summary

After ‘How David Cameron Saved Scotland’, satirical author Owen Dudley Edwards comes back with a new book, ‘Defining Moments in The Fight for Independence’. This is a collection of defining moments, some rather peculiar, in the history of multiple nations. A wide and interesting assemblage of events that have never been gathered in a single book before. An insight on what it means to become a nation and what a defining moment might actually be. The book covers the defining moments in which nations such as Ireland, Brazil, Belgium, Haiti achieved independence.

 

Author Biography

Owen Dudley Edwards is Hon. Fellow of the School of History, Classics and Archaeology, at the University of Edinburgh where he taught History from 1968, having been born in Ireland and studied in the USA. His wife, Bonnie, is American and his three children are Scots. His most recent major monograph is British Children’s Fiction in the Second World War, his most recent collaboration Tartan Pimps, and he has edited several books including A Claim of Right for Scotland.