Union and Unionisms by Colin Kidd

Union and Unionisms by Colin Kidd

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Zusammenfassung

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.

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Union and Unionisms by Colin Kidd

Although the dominant political ideology in Scotland between 1707 and the present, unionism has suffered serious neglect. One of the most distinguished Scottish historians of our time looks afresh at this central theme in Britain's history, politics and law, and traces the history of Scottish unionist ideas from the early sixteenth century to the present day. Colin Kidd demonstrates that unionism had impeccably indigenous origins long predating the Union of 1707, and that it emerged in reaction to the English vision of Britain as an empire. Far from being the antithesis of nationalism, modern Scottish unionism has largely occupied a middle ground between the extremes of assimilation to England or separation from it. At a time when the future of the Scottish union is under scrutiny as never before, its history demands Colin Kidd's lucid and cogent examination, which will doubtless generate major debate, both within Scotland and beyond.
'… lively and provocative (in the best sense) … impressive and fascinating book … Colin Kidd succeeds in persuading us to think more carefully about unionism in Scotland …' Edinburgh Law Review
Colin Kidd is Professor of Modern History at the University of Glasgow, and Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford.
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ISBN 13 9780521706803
ISBN 10 0521706807
Titel Union and Unionisms
Autor Colin Kidd
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Bindungsart Paperback
Verlag Cambridge University Press
Erscheinungsjahr 2008-12-04
Seitenanzahl 322
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