Scots and Catalans
Title | Scots and Catalans PDF eBook |
Author | J. H. Elliott |
Publisher | Yale University Press |
Pages | 355 |
Release | 2018-08-21 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0300240716 |
A landmark account that reveals the long history behind the current Catalan and Scottish independence movements A distinguished historian of Spain and Europe provides an enlightening account of the development of nationalist and separatist movements in contemporary Catalonia and Scotland. This first sustained comparative study uncovers the similarities and the contrasts between the Scottish and Catalan experiences across a five-hundred-year period, beginning with the royal marriages that brought about union with their more powerful neighbors, England and Castile respectively, and following the story through the centuries from the end of the Middle Ages until today’s dramatic events. J. H. Elliott examines the political, economic, social, cultural, and emotional factors that divide Scots and Catalans from the larger nations to which their fortunes were joined. He offers new insights into the highly topical subject of the character and development of European nationalism, the nature of separatism, and the sense of grievance underlying the secessionist aspirations that led to the Scottish referendum of 2014, the illegal Catalan referendum of October 2017, and the resulting proclamation of an independent Catalan republic.
Scots and the Union
Title | Scots and the Union PDF eBook |
Author | Christopher A Whatley |
Publisher | Edinburgh University Press |
Pages | 441 |
Release | 2014-04-14 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0748680292 |
This book traces the background to the Treaty of Union of 1707, explains why it happened and assesses its impact on Scottish society, including the bitter struggle with the Jacobites for acceptance of the union in the two decades that followed its inaugur
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.
Acts of Union
Title | Acts of Union PDF eBook |
Author | Leith Davis |
Publisher | Stanford University Press |
Pages | 240 |
Release | 1998 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 9780804732697 |
This book explores the political relationship between Scotland and England as it was negotiated in literature after the 1707 Act of Union. It is built around five discursive encounters between Scottish and English writers: Daniel Defoe-?Lord Belhaven, Tobias Smollett-?Henry Fielding, James Macpherson-?Samuel Johnson, William Wordsworth-?Robert Burns, and Walter Scott-?Thomas Percy.
Scottish Public Opinion and the Anglo-Scottish Union, 1699-1707
Title | Scottish Public Opinion and the Anglo-Scottish Union, 1699-1707 PDF eBook |
Author | Karin Bowie |
Publisher | Boydell & Brewer Ltd |
Pages | 212 |
Release | 2007 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9780861932894 |
The Anglo-Scottish union crisis is used to demonstrate the growing influence of popular opinion in this period.
The Scottish Historical Review
Title | The Scottish Historical Review PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Pages | 142 |
Release | 2008 |
Genre | Scotland |
ISBN | 9780748638024 |
A new series of the Scottish antiquary established 1886.
The Spirit of the Union
Title | The Spirit of the Union PDF eBook |
Author | Gordon Pentland |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 216 |
Release | 2015-10-06 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1317316541 |
Pentland's study has 3 aims: to place the uprising in a wider context by exploring the modes of extra-parliamentary politics between 1815 and1820 as well as the situation outside Scotland; (ii) to provide the first full account of the rising itself; and (iii) to examine the legacies of both the politics of 1815-20 and the Radical War.