Standing Up for Scotland
Title | Standing Up for Scotland PDF eBook |
Author | Torrance David Torrance |
Publisher | Edinburgh University Press |
Pages | 342 |
Release | 2020-05-01 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 1474447848 |
David Torrance reassesses the relationship between 'nationalism' and 'unionism' in Scottish politics, challenging a binary reading of the two ideologies with the concept of 'nationalist unionism'. Scottish nationalism did not begin with the SNP in 1934, nor was it confined to political parties that desired independent statehood. Rather, it was more dispersed, with the Liberal, Conservative and Labour parties all attempting to harness Scottish national identity and nationalism between 1884 and 2014, often with the paradoxical goal of strengthening rather than ending the Union. The book combines nationalist theory with empirical historical and archival research to argue that these conceptions of Scottish nationhood had much more in common with each other than is commonly accepted.
Unionist-Nationalism
Title | Unionist-Nationalism PDF eBook |
Author | Graeme Morton |
Publisher | John Donald |
Pages | 256 |
Release | 1999 |
Genre | History |
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Mid-19th century Scottish nationalism has been perceived as weak, failing to produce a parliamentary challenge. The European revolutions were set alight in 1848 yet missed Great Britain; for Scotland a British/imperial agenda was said to dominate. This failure of Scottish nationalism is an orthodoxy long overdue for challenge. From an analysis of the major expressions of national identity in mid-century, it is stressed that Scottish nationalism demanded equality with England within the Union of 1707. Strange as it may be to 20th-century eyes, Scotland wanted more Union, not less. Nor was it weak for its lack of rhetoric of parliamentary independence. Unionist-nationalism flowed from its axis of a British state and a Scottish civil society in the 1830-1860 period.
Union and Unionisms
Title | Union and Unionisms PDF eBook |
Author | Colin Kidd |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 323 |
Release | 2008-12-04 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0521880572 |
A major survey of Scotland's dominant ideology over the past three centuries by one of its leading historians.
Unionists, Loyalists, and Conflict Transformation in Northern Ireland
Title | Unionists, Loyalists, and Conflict Transformation in Northern Ireland PDF eBook |
Author | Lee A. Smithey |
Publisher | OUP USA |
Pages | 277 |
Release | 2011-08-31 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0195395875 |
Lee Smithey examines how symbolic cultural expressions in Northern Ireland, such as parades, bonfires, murals, and commemorations, provide opportunities for Protestant unionists and loyalists to reconstruct their collective identities and participate in conflict transformation.
The Cambridge Companion to Modern Irish Culture
Title | The Cambridge Companion to Modern Irish Culture PDF eBook |
Author | Joe Cleary |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | |
Release | 2005-01-20 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 113982693X |
This Companion provides an authoritative introduction to the historical, social and stylistic complexities of modern Irish culture. Readers will be introduced to Irish culture in its widest sense and helped to find their way through the cultural and theoretical debates that inform our understanding of modern Ireland. The volume combines cultural breadth and historical depth, supported by a chronology of Irish history and arts. A wide selection of essays on a rich variety of Irish cultural forms and practices are complemented by a series of in-depth analyses of key themes in Irish cultural politics. The range of topics covered will enable a comprehensive understanding of Irish culture, while the authors gathered here - all acknowledged experts in their fields - provide stimulating essays that together amount to an invaluable guide to the shaping of modern Ireland.
The Northern Ireland Question
Title | The Northern Ireland Question PDF eBook |
Author | Patrick John Roche |
Publisher | |
Pages | 292 |
Release | 2013 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1783240008 |
Barton and Roche have drawn on the expertise of scholars in Irish history, political philosophy, sociology, demography and criminal and constitutional law to provide a major contribution to understanding the dynamics of the terrorist conflict that engulfed Northern Ireland for thirty years. The legal dimension of the book provides accessible understanding both of the use of the criminal law in response to terrorism and of the constitutional status of Northern Ireland prior to the 1998 Belfast Agreement. The Northern Ireland Question: Myth and Reality explicates the civic character of unionism which differentiates unionism as a form of political identity from the ethnicity of traditional Irish nationalism. The contributions explore the ambiguities of southern Irish politics with respect to 'the Northern Ireland question' and challenge a conventional and widely accepted understanding (inimical to unionism and unionists) of the genesis of the terrorist conflict in Northern Ireland and the extent of discrimination under the Stormont administration but without loss of objectivity and professional detachment.
Scottish Nationalism and the Idea of Europe
Title | Scottish Nationalism and the Idea of Europe PDF eBook |
Author | Atsuko Ichijo |
Publisher | Psychology Press |
Pages | 200 |
Release | 2004 |
Genre | Europe |
ISBN | 9780714655918 |
Scottish Nationalism and the Idea of Europe offers fresh insights into the 'pro-European' dimension of Scottish nationalism and its implications for the UK.