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Record Nr.

UNINA9910779369003321

Autore

Torrance David

Titolo

Whatever Happened to Tory Scotland? [[electronic resource]]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Edinburgh, : Edinburgh University Press, 2012

ISBN

1-283-83733-1

0-7486-4688-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (201 p.)

Disciplina

324.2411/083

324.241104

Soggetti

Political parties -- Scotland -- History

Scotland -- Politics and government -- 20th century

Scottish National Party

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di contenuto

COVER; Copyright; Contents; Notes on the Contributors; Tables; 1. Centenary Blues: 100 Years of Scottish Conservatism; 2. Sociability, Status and Solidarity: Scottish Unionism in the era of Irish Home Rule, 1886-1920; 3. Patriotism, Paternalism and Pragmatism: Scottish Toryism, Union and Empire, 1912-65; 4. More than a Name: The Union and the Un-doing of Scottish Conservatism in the Twentieth Century; 5. Smithians, Thatcherites and the Ironies of Scottish Conservative Decline; 6. 'It's only a Northern Song': The Constant Smirr of Anti-Thatcherism and Anti-Toryism; 7. The Wilderness Years

8. Why no Tory Revival in Scotland?9. Refashioning Welsh Conservatism - a Lesson for Scotland?; 10. The Press, National Identity and the Scottish Tories; 11. 'Handbagging' the Feminisation Thesis? Reflections on Women in the Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party; 12. Conservative Unionism: Prisoned in Marble; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Explores the history and ideas of the Scottish Conservative Party since its creation in 1912