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Title:Angles on the English-Speaking World, Volume 7 : The State of the Union, Scotland 1707-2007
Author:Jørgen Sevaldsen & Jens Rahbek Rasmussen (eds)
ISBN:8763507021 : 9788763507028
Illustrations:b/w illus
Format:Paperback
Size:155x230mm
Pages:155
Weight: .266 Kg.
Published:Museum Tusculanum Press - October 2007
List Price: 14 Pounds Sterling
Availability:In Print
Subjects:British & Irish history: c1700 to c1900: Nationalism


This special issue of ANGLES marks the three hundredth anniversary of the Union of the two kingdoms of Scotland and England under the name of the Kingdom of Great Britain.

Editors' Preface; Introductory Thoughts on Scotland, England, Empire and Europe; State, Society and Nation -- The Problem of Scotland; Union and Identity -- Scotland in a Social and Institutional Context; 'Union is not Amalgamation Scotland is a Nation' -- Unionism and Scottishness in the Twentieth Century; Governing Regional Development in Pre-Devolution Scotland -- Thatcherism and the Scottish Development Agency; Beyond the Cringe -- Scottish Nationalism since the 1960s; The Scots Language then and now; That Dear Green Place Rewritten -- Alasdair Gray and Scottish Literary Independence; Five Passports and a Broken Stone -- Tercentenary thoughts in honour of Edward Lhuyd.