| The Origins Of Scottish Nationhood Contributor(s): Davidson, Neil (Author) |
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ISBN: 0745316085 ISBN-13: 9780745316086 Publisher: Pluto Press (UK) OUR PRICE: $38.00 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: April 2000 Annotation: The traditional view of the Scottish nation holds that it first aroseduring the Wars of Independence from England in the thirteenth andfourteenth centuries. Although Scotland was absorbed into Britain in 1707 with the Treaty of Union, Scottish identity is supposed to have remained alive in the new state through separate institutions of religion (the Church of Scotland), education, and the legal system.Neil Davidson argues otherwise. The Scottish nation did not exist before the 1707. The Scottish national consciousness we know today was not preserved by institutions carried over from the pre-Union period, but arose after and as a result of the Union, for only then were the material obstacles to nationhood - most importantly the Highland/Lowland divide - overcome. This Scottish nation was constructed simultaneously with and as part of the British nation, and the eighteenth century Scottish bourgeoisie were at the forefront of constructing both. The majority of Scots entered the Industrial Revolution with a dual national consciousness, but only onenationalism, which was British. The Scottish nationalism which arose inScotland during the twentieth century is therefore not a revival of apre-Union nationalism after 300 years, but an entirely new formation.Davidson provides a revisionist history of the origins of Scottish andBritish national consciousness that sheds light on many of the contemporary debates about nationalism. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Political Science - History | Europe - Great Britain - General |
| Dewey: 941.107 |
| LCCN: 99089799 |
| Physical Information: 0.73" H x 5.44" W x 8.47" (0.90 lbs) 272 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - 18th Century - Cultural Region - British Isles |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 'The great merit of The Origins of Scottish Nationhood is that it seeks to encourage clear thinking about the national condition.' Allan Massie, TLS |
