Culture in Glasgow the National Mòd no less than twelve times since 1895 in 1895, 1901, 1907, 1911, 1921, 1933, 1938, 1948, 1958, 1967, 1988 and 1990. The city was host to the three Great Exhibitions at Kelvingrove Park, in 1888 (International Exhibition), 1901 (Glasgow International Exhibition) and 1911 (Scottish Exhibition, Art and Industry). It later hosted the Empire Exhibition in 1938 and the Industrial exhibits of the Festival of Britain at the Kelvin Hall in 1951. More recently it held the Glasgow Garden Festival in 1988 and was European Capital of Culture in 1990, National City of Sport 1995–1999, UK City of
Coercion, Capital, and European States, AD 990–1992 Coercion, Capital, and European States, AD 990–1992 Coercion, Capital, and European States, AD 990-1990 is a 1990 book by the American political scientist Charles Tilly. The central theme of the book is state formation. Tilly writes about the complex history of European state formation from the Middle Ages to the 1990s - a thousand-year time span. While examining political, social, and technological change, Tilly attempts to explain the unprecedented success of the European nation-state as the dominant polity in the world, claiming that "the origins of the modern European state lay in war and preparations for war." Tilly asks a