Subverting Scotland''s Past - Scottish Whig Historians Creation of an Anglo British Identity 1689

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction; Prologue: National identity in late medieval and early modern Scotland; Part I. The End of the Tradition: 1. History, national identity and the union of 1707; 2. Presbyterian historiography and the age of Wodow; 3. Scottish whig historiography, 1707-c.1750; Part II. Disenchantment: 4. The decline of the ancient Scottish constitution; 5. Faultlines in Scotland's unusable past; 6. Presbyterianism and whig historiography in the age of Robertson; 7. The Scottish construction of Anglo-British identity; Part III. Critical Renewal: 8. Enlightened reconstructions: The routes of James Macpherson and Gilbert Stuart; 9. History and national identity in the age of Scott; Conclusion.

Über den Autor / die Autorin

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

Zusammenfassung

This book examines how the dramatic intellectual developments of the Scottish Enlightenment undermined a patriotic reading of Scotland's history, and shows how this led to the failure of the nineteenth-century Scottish intelligentsia to mount a nationalist movement comparable to the romantic nationalisms of other European peoples.

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Colin Kidd, Colin (All Souls College Kidd, Kidd Colin
• Verlag: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Taschenbuch
• Erschienen: 18.12.2003
• EAN: 9780521520195
• ISBN: 978-0-521-52019-5
• Seiten: 340
• Themen: Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik > Geschichte; Modern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900, European History, Scotland, c 1800 to c 1900, 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899, c 1500 onwards to present day, 18th century, c 1700 to c 1799, British & Irish history, HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain / General, C 1700 To C 1800