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Scotland and Nationalism: Scottish Society and Politics 1707 to the Present
Scotland and Nationalism provides an authoritative survey of Scottish social and political history from 1707 to the present day. Focusing on political nationalism in Scotland, Christopher Harvie examines why this nationalism remained apparently in abeyance for two and a half centuries, and why it became so relevant in the second half of the twentieth century. This fourth edition brings the story and historiography of Scottish society and politics up-to-date. Additions also include a brand new biographical index of key personalities, along with a glossary of nationalist groups.
288 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 1977
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Christopher Harvie
61 books4 followersProfessor Christopher Harvie is a Scottish historian and author. He was Professor of British and Irish Studies at the University of Tübingen, Germany and a Scottish National Party Member of the Scottish Parliament for Mid Scotland and Fife from 2007 to 2011.
Harvie grew up in the Borders village of St. Boswells and was educated at Kelso High School and the Royal High School in Edinburgh. He studied at the University of Edinburgh, where he graduated in 1966 with a First Class Honours M.A. in History. He received his PhD from Edinburgh in 1972 for a thesis on university liberalism and democracy, 1860-1886.
As a historian, Harvie was the Shaw-Macfie Lang Fellow and a tutor at Edinburgh University from 1966 to 1969. He joined the Open University in 1969 as a history lecturer, and from 1978 he was a senior lecturer in history.
His publications include Scotland and Nationalism (1977, revised 1994), Fool’s Gold: the Story of North Sea Oil (1994), Broonland: the Last Days of Gordon Brown (2010), and Scotland the Brief: a Short History of a Nation (2010).
Harvie grew up in the Borders village of St. Boswells and was educated at Kelso High School and the Royal High School in Edinburgh. He studied at the University of Edinburgh, where he graduated in 1966 with a First Class Honours M.A. in History. He received his PhD from Edinburgh in 1972 for a thesis on university liberalism and democracy, 1860-1886.
As a historian, Harvie was the Shaw-Macfie Lang Fellow and a tutor at Edinburgh University from 1966 to 1969. He joined the Open University in 1969 as a history lecturer, and from 1978 he was a senior lecturer in history.
His publications include Scotland and Nationalism (1977, revised 1994), Fool’s Gold: the Story of North Sea Oil (1994), Broonland: the Last Days of Gordon Brown (2010), and Scotland the Brief: a Short History of a Nation (2010).
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May 14, 2017
i would add more relevant details but it is such a complete pain adding books on Goodreads this will probably never have the correct cover or isbn though is the updated (and possibly most recent) published version of this text, bought in Galloway & Porters closing down sale. One of the oldest bookshops in Cambridge, sadly no longer here, where I bought all my degree texts 30 years ago. Progress, pah!
January 21, 2014
The book wasn't overly useful to me. The parts I read seemed very focused on the SNP rather than nationalism as I'd wanted.
I got a few quotes from the chapters that I read, but as I'm finding with most books on nationalism, it is dated.
I got a few quotes from the chapters that I read, but as I'm finding with most books on nationalism, it is dated.
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April 11, 2010Scotland and nationalism: Scottish society and politics, 1707-1977 by Christopher T Harvie (1977)
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