Subverting Scotland's Past - Scottish Whig Historians and the Creation of an Anglo-British Identity 1689-1830 (Hardcover)

This book examines how the dramatic intellectual developments of the Scottish Enlightenment undermined a patriotic reading of Scotland's history, and shows how this had long-term consequences in the failure of the nineteenth-century Scottish intelligentsia to mount a nationalist movement comparable to the romantic nationalisms of other European peoples. The volume sheds fresh light on several important areas of Scottish history and literature: on the parliamentary Union with England of 1707, the ideological conflicts between whigs and Jacobites, and the literary mythmaking of James Macpherson's Ossian and Sir Walter Scott's Waverley novels. It also addresses the broader questions of the impact of the Scottish Enlightenment on British political culture, and the enigma of British national identity itself.

General

Imprint:	Cambridge UniversityPress
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	September 1993
First published:	1993
Authors:	Colin Kidd
Dimensions:	236 x 157 x 24mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	340
ISBN-13:	978-0-521-43484-3
Categories:	Books > Humanities > History > World history > 1750 to 1900 Books > Humanities > History > British & Irish history > General Books > History > British & Irish history > General Books > History > World history > 1750 to 1900 Promotions
LSN:	0-521-43484-X
Barcode:	9780521434843

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