A critical appraisal of Scotland's cultural wealth and global
distinction'The Wealth of the Nation' explores how Scotland has
continued to assert its distinctive cultural difference despite the
three-hundred-year union with England and the modern forces of
globalisation. Dealing with Scotland since the eighteenth century,
the study analyses how Scottish culture defined itself within the
British Empire and how, in the late twentieth century, it recovered
from the collapse of the Empire to rebuild the value of its
cultural past. Through its focus on the role of memory in
philosophy, literature and the visual arts, readers will gain
understanding of the influence that modern Scottish writers and
artists have had on contemporary Scottish nationalism. The book
argues that political nationalism in modern Scotland is founded on
a cultural revival that began in the 1950s and 60s but gained
momentum from resistance to the outcome of the 1979 devolution
referendum. That resistance, and the creative achievements which it
generated, provoked a re-examination of the nation's cultural
history, revealing a wealth previously denied or forgotten.
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