BOOKS - Standing Up for Scotland: Nationalist Unionism and Scottish Party Politics, 1...
Standing Up for Scotland: Nationalist Unionism and Scottish Party Politics, 1884-2014 - David Torrance May 26, 2020 PDF  BOOKS
US $9.63

Views
19391
Standing Up for Scotland: Nationalist Unionism and Scottish Party Politics, 1884-2014
Author: David Torrance
Year: May 26, 2020
Format: PDF
File size: PDF 1.5 MB
Language: English

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.

You may also be interested in: