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UNINA9910819362303321 |
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Autore |
Blaikie Andrew |
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Titolo |
The Scots imagination and modern memory / / Andrew Blaikie |
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Edinburgh, : Edinburgh University Press, 2010 |
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ISBN |
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0-7486-5351-1 |
0-7486-7973-1 |
1-282-62000-2 |
9786612620003 |
0-7486-2829-0 |
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Edizione |
[1st ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (273 p.) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Collective memory - Scotland |
National characteristics, Scottish |
HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain / General |
Scotland Social life and customs |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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section 1. Encountering modernity -- section 2. Placing identities -- section 3. Local visions. |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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This highly original study explores how different, but connected ways of seeing infuse relationships between place and belonging. Its argument is that all memories, whether fleeting glimpses or elaborated narratives, necessarily invoke imagined pasts - tenement life, island cultures, vanished moralities, even the origins of social science. But do these multiple recollections share a common frame of reference? Are perceptions conditioned by a collective social imaginary?Visions of nation and community, from Adam Ferguson's ideas on the development of civil society through John Grierson's pionee |
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