Colin Kidd

Subverting Scotland's Past

Scottish Whig Historians and the Creation of an Anglo-British Identity 1689 1830

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Produktbeschreibung

This book examines how the intellectual developments of the Scottish Enlightenment undermined Scotland's sense of nationalism.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 340
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. November 2009
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 703g
• ISBN-13: 9780521434843
• ISBN-10: 052143484X
• Artikelnr.: 28513893

Autorenporträt

Colin Kidd is Wardlaw Professor of Modern History at the University of St Andrews, and a Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
Prologue: National identity in late medieval and early modern Scotland
Part I. The End of the Tradition: 1. History, national identity and the union of 1707
2. Presbyterian historiography and the age of Wodow
3. Scottish whig historiography, 1707-c.1750
Part II. Disenchantment: 4. The decline of the ancient Scottish constitution
5. Faultlines in Scotland's unusable past
6. Presbyterianism and whig historiography in the age of Robertson
7. The Scottish construction of Anglo-British identity
Part III. Critical Renewal: 8. Enlightened reconstructions: The routes of James Macpherson and Gilbert Stuart
9. History and national identity in the age of Scott
Conclusion.