Union and Unionisms: Political Thought in Scotland, 1500–2000 - Hardcover

Kidd, Colin

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0521880572 ISBN 13: 9780521880572

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2008

Synopsis

Although the dominant political ideology in Scotland between 1707 and the present, unionism has suffered serious neglect. One of the most distinguished Scottish historians of our time looks afresh at this central theme in Britain's history, politics and law, and traces the history of Scottish unionist ideas from the early sixteenth century to the present day. Colin Kidd demonstrates that unionism had impeccably indigenous origins long predating the Union of 1707, and that it emerged in reaction to the English vision of Britain as an empire. Far from being the antithesis of nationalism, modern Scottish unionism has largely occupied a middle ground between the extremes of assimilation to England or separation from it. At a time when the future of the Scottish union is under scrutiny as never before, its history demands Colin Kidd's lucid and cogent examination, which will doubtless generate major debate, both within Scotland and beyond.

About this title

Book Description:

A major survey of Scotland's dominant political ideology over the past three centuries by one of its leading historians. Colin Kidd engages with central themes in modern British history, tracing the history of Scottish unionist ideas from the sixteenth century onwards and focussing especially on the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

About the Author:

Colin Kidd is Professor of Modern History at the University of Glasgow, and Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford.

About this edition

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 2008
• ISBN 10: 0521880572
• ISBN 13: 9780521880572
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 322