David McCrone is Emeritus Professor of Sociology in the Institute of Governance at the University of Edinburgh and a Fellow of both the Royal Society of Edinburgh and of the British Academy. He has published Understanding Scotland: The Sociology of a Nation (1992 and 2001), The Sociology of Nationalism: Tomorrow's Ancestors (1998), National Days: Constructing and Mobilising National Identity (2009, with Gayle McPherson) and, most recently, The Crisis of Social Democracy in Europe (2013, edited with Michael Keating).
Preface
Introduction
1. Thinking about national identity
2. Accessing national identity
3. National identity: do people care about it?
4. Debatable lands: national identities on the border
5. Claiming national identity
6. The politics of national identity
7. The notional other: ethnicity and national identity
8. A manner of speaking: the end of being British?
9. Whither national identity?
Appendix. National identity publications.
