Subverting Scotland's Past Scottish Whig Historians and the Creation of an Anglo-British Identity, 1689-1830 |
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| Author:
| Kidd, Colin |
| ISBN: | 978-0-521-43484-3 |
| Publication Date: | Sep 1993 |
| Publisher: | Cambridge University Press
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| Book Format: | Hardback |
| List Price: | AUD $152.95 |
Book Description:
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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.
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.