Colin Kidd (University of Glasgow)

Union and Unionisms

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

A major survey of Scotland's dominant political ideology over the past three centuries by one of its leading historians. Colin Kidd engages with central themes in modern British history, tracing the history of Scottish unionist ideas from the sixteenth century onwards and focussing especially on the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 324
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. Dezember 2008
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 448g
• ISBN-13: 9780521706803
• ISBN-10: 0521706807
• Artikelnr.: 24704792

Autorenporträt

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

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
1. Introduction: the problems of unionism and banal unionism
2. Unionisms before union, 1500-1707
3. Analytic unionism and the issue of sovereignty
4. Narratives of belonging: the history and ethnology of organic union
5. From assimilationist jurisprudence to legal nationalism
6. The two kingdoms and the ecclesiology of union
7. Early nationalism as a form of unionism
8. Conclusion.