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Stone Voices - The Search for Scotland (Paperback)
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The rediscovery of Scotland' s past and a wake-up call about its
future, from a leading scholar-journalist
Scotland has a new Parliament and it has North Sea oil, but is it
yet an independent, self-sustaining democracy? Is it a true nation?
In Stone Voices, Neal Ascherson launches what he calls an
imaginative invasion of his native land, searching for the
relationships, themes, and fantasies that make up " Scotland."
Beginning with a breathtaking portrait of the country' s landscape,
and of the way humanity has indelibly marked even its rockiest
contours, Ascherson takes us on a journey through Scotland' s past,
interweaving his historical accounts with a rollicking report on a
back-country bus expedition he joined during the 1997 referendum
campaign that led to Scotland' s first modern Parliament. He asked
voters then what kind of country they hoped for, what they feared,
and what they expected-- questions that animate his book as well.
In his search for a nation, Acherson explores many themes: the
slow, hybrid formation of the Scottish people over centuries of
successive immigrations; the way their most renowned intellectuals
and writers came to hate the national church; the peculiar nature
of their diaspora; the coexistence of their search for an "
authentic" Scotland with the myths others create; and the Scots'
proud sense of true independence. Stone Voices enlightens us about
Scotland, about Europe, and about the conditions for freedom that
we must all seek today.
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