Cultural Weapons, Scotland and Survival in a New Europe

Determinations

by Christopher Harvie

Cultural Weapons presents an analysis of the rapid economic and social changes occurring throughout Europe over the past five years and looks forward to a new European order in which, the author argues, there are significant opportunities for an autonomous Scotland.

Part contemporary history, part discussion of political strategy, this volume is aimed at the general reader as well as students of the contemporary European scene.

119 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1992

About the author

Professor 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).