The origins of Scottish nationhood / / Neil Davidson

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910829501103321
• Autore: Davidson Neil <1957-2020.>
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: London ; ; Sterling, Va., : Pluto Press, 2000
• ISBN: 1-78371-569-3; 0-585-42574-4; 1-84964-085-8
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (272 p.)
• Disciplina: 941.107
• Soggetti: National characteristics, Scottish - History - 18th century; Nationalism - Scotland - History - 18th century; Scotland History 18th century; Scotland History Union, 1707
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Intro -- Contents -- Preface, Acknowledgements, Dedication -- Introduction -- 1. What Is National Consciousness? -- Defining a Nation -- National Consciousness and Class Consciousness -- National Consciousness and Nationalism -- What National Consciousness Is Not -- 2. From National Consciousness to Nation States -- Psychological Formation -- Geographical Extension -- Social Diffusion -- 3. Was There a Scottish Nation Before 1707? -- The 'Holy Trinity' -- The Missing Components of National Consciousness -- The Limits of Psychological Formation -- Lowland Perceptions of Highland Society -- Highland Perceptions of Lowland Society -- 4. Highland versus Lowland, Scotland versus England -- The First Modern Britons -- The Colley Thesis -- 5. Scotland After 1707: Oppressed or Oppressor Nation? -- Internal Colonialism? -- Cultural Imperialism? -- The Highlands: an Exceptional Case? -- Imperial Caledonia? -- 6. British Imperialism and National Consciousness in Scotland -- Scots and the British Empire -- Warriors -- Colonists -- 7. Scottish History and Highland Mythology -- Tourism and Tartanry -- 8. The Reality of the Highlands: Social Assimilation and the Onslaught on Gaelic Culture -- The Potato Famine and the Test of Nationhood -- 9. Burns and Scott: ; Radical and Conservative Nations -- Burns and Radicalism -- Scott and Conservatism -- Leaving the Eighteenth Century -- 10. Class Consciousness and National Consciousness In the Age of Revolution -- The Consequences of Combined and Uneven Development 1: Economic -- The Consequences of Combined and Uneven Development 2: Social and Political -- Scottish Radicalism and British National Consciousness -- The Britishness of Scottish Radicalism -- Conclusion -- Afterword -- Notes -- Preface, Acknowledgements, Dedication -- Introduction -- Chapter 1: What is National Consciousness?.; Chapter 2: From National Consciousness To Nation States -- Chapter 3: Was There a Scottish Nation Before 1707? -- Chapter 4: Highland versus Lowland, Scotland versus England -- Chapter 5: Scotland After 1707: Oppressed Or Oppressor Nation? -- Chapter 6: British Imperialism and National Consciousness In Scotland -- Chapter 7: Scottish History and Highland Mythology -- Chapter 8: The Reality of the Highlands: Social Assimilation and the Onslaught on Gaelic Culture -- Chapter 9: Burns and Scott: Radical and Conservative Nations -- Chapter 10: Class Consciousness and National Consciousness In the Age of Revolution -- Conclusion -- Afterword -- Index -- Aberdeen, Battle of [1644] 71 -- absolutism -- 30-2 -- 33 -- 54 -- in Scotland 58-9 -- in Scotland 58-9 -- in Scotland 77 -- in Scotland 77 -- in Scotland 82 -- in Scotland 82 -- Acadia [Nova Scotia] 107 -- Africa, Portuguese colonies 97 -- Aiton, William 190 -- Allan, Theodore 145-6 -- American colonies, and Scots -- 76 -- 109 -- American nationalism 36 -- American War of Independence [1776-84] -- 115 -- 117 -- 120 -- 122 -- 124-6 -- Anderson, Benedict -- 11 -- 13 -- 41 -- Anderson, James -- 80 -- 87 -- Anderson, Robert 53 -- Anglican Church 87 -- Anglo-Scottish union -- advantages to Scotland and England 82-3 -- and equality 79 -- and feudalism 81 -- and feudalism 182 -- and political rights 182-4 -- and Scottish bourgeoisie 80-1 -- closer union advocated 188-9 -- ideological origins of 82 -- role of religion 86-8 -- Anne of Denmark 137 -- Argyll, Earls of -- 58 -- 78 -- Armitage, David 107 -- artisan guilds -- 177-8 -- 185-6 -- Asquith, H.H. 95 -- Atlantic working class 45 -- Australia 87 -- Azeglio, Massimo d' 37 -- Baines, Paul 135 -- Baird, John 203 -- banal nationalism 18-19 -- Bannerman, Campbell 95 -- Bannockburn, Battle of [1314] -- 48 -- 50-1 -- Barnard, F.M. 22.; Barrington, William Wildman, Viscount 120 -- Barrow, Geoffrey -- 48 -- 72 -- Barthes, Roland 205 -- Bartlett, Robert 25 -- Basilicon Doron 65 -- Bawcutt, Patricia 65 -- Beattie, James 130 -- Bell, Ian 2 -- Bernard of Linton 48 -- Berresford Ellis, Peter -- 104 -- 157 -- 166 -- 167 -- Beveridge, Craig -- 96 -- 205 -- 206 -- 207 -- Bible -- and concept of nation 24-5 -- German translation of 29-30 -- in vernacular 32-3 -- in vernacular 32-3 -- in vernacular 57 -- in vernacular 57 -- Biddiss, Michael 15 -- Billig, Michael -- 15 -- 16 -- 17 -- 18 -- 19 -- 29 -- 36 -- Bismarck, Prince Otto von 36 -- Black Watch -- 117 -- 118 -- Blair, Hugh 130 -- Boece, Hector -- 65 -- 133 -- Bolingbroke, Henry St John 19 -- Bonnymuir, Battle of [1820] 180 -- Bothwell Bridge, Battle of [1679] 66 -- bourgeoisie -- 31-2 -- 33-5 -- Bowman, John 135-6 -- Braverman, Harry 172 -- Braxfield, Robert Macqueen, lord 186 -- Brayshaw, Joseph 191 -- Breuilly, John -- 13-14 -- 35 -- 44 -- Brims, John 189 -- British army -- 116-22 -- and Highland costume 136-7 -- and Highland costume 138 -- and Highlanders 118-19 -- Lowland officers 117 -- British consciousness -- 189-90 -- 191-3 -- and British nationalism 202 -- British Empire -- and national consciousness 112 -- and national consciousness 114 -- and Scottish economy 107 -- participation of Scots 106-11 -- ; participation of Scots 113 -- participation of Scots 197 -- participation of Scots 202 -- British Fisheries Society 139 -- British nationalism -- 193 -- 202 -- British state -- 197-8 -- and nation-building 46 -- and Scottish and Irish workers 194 -- as nationstate 197 -- core/periphery relationship 91-2 -- core/periphery relationship 94 -- formation of new ruling class 78 -- Great Britain as Scotticism 109 -- idea of 79 -- rights and obligations 198 -- Britishness -- 79 -- 114.; 130 -- 201-2 -- 202 -- and British Empire 112-13 -- and British Empire 115 -- and Burns, Robert 157 -- and general strike proclamation 191 -- and Scottish bourgeoisie 80 -- as elite identity 166 -- Colley thesis 85-9 -- colonial 122 -- conflated with Englishness 201 -- construction of 85-6 -- construction of 89 -- role of religion 85-6 -- Scottish component 101-2 -- Scottish component 126-7 -- Brown, Callum 61 -- Bruce, Robert -- 49-50 -- 72 -- 155 -- 190 -- 198 -- Brutus the Trojan -- 25 -- 49 -- Buchanan, Keith 103 -- Burgess, Keith 92 -- Burns, Marilyn 155 -- Burns, Robert -- 97 -- 100 -- 152-9 -- 162-3 -- 208 -- and Britishness 157 -- and Britishness 158 -- and Britishness 159 -- and dual national consciousness 151 -- and dual national consciousness 162-3 -- and dual national consciousness 167 -- and Jacobitism 155-6 -- and monarchy 156 -- and monarchy 157 -- and radicalism 154-9 -- and radicalism 190 -- and Scottish nationalism 154-5 -- and Scottish nationalism 158 -- and universal solidarity 153 -- and universal solidarity 153 -- and universal solidarity 154 -- and universal solidarity 154 -- background 152 -- contradictions 158-9 -- different interpretations of 155-7 -- Burns, William 111 -- Burt, Edward -- 75 -- 76 -- Bute, John Stuart, Earl of -- 83 -- 84 -- Cairns, John -- 32 -- 59 -- Calder, Angus -- 46 -- 90 -- 102 -- 158 -- Caledonian Asylum 139 -- Callender, James -- 110 -- 111 -- 191 -- Callinicos, Alex -- 40 -- 91 -- 170 -- Cameron of Locheil 137 -- Campbell, James 103 -- Campbells -- 58 -- 71 -- 73 -- 74 -- 124 -- Canada -- 107 -- 114 -- 122 -- canals 107 -- Cannadine, David -- 64 -- 69 -- 89 -- Cape Breton Island 106 -- capitalism -- and bourgeoisie 34 -- and exploitation 39 -- and exploitation 45 -- and national consciousness 54 -- and nationalism 27-8 -- and nationalism 27-8.; and nationalism 33 -- and nationalism 33 -- and nationalism 35-6 -- and nationalism 35-6 -- and nationalism 37 -- and nationalism 37 -- and nationalism 41 -- and nationalism 41 -- and nationalism 44-5 -- and nationalism 44-5 -- and nationalism 47 -- and nationalism 47 -- effect on Scottish society 178-9 -- impact on feudal society 28 -- Carlyle, Thomas -- 56 -- 99 -- Carron Iron Works 171 -- Catalonia 33 -- Catherine the Great 102 -- Catholic relief 88 -- Catholics/Catholicism -- and national identity 32 -- and national identity 33 -- and radicalism 180 -- France 85 -- France 86 -- in Highland society 69 -- Irish 146 -- Irish 180-1 -- Irish 194-5 -- Cavour, C.B. conte di 36 -- Celtic nationalism 91 -- Celtification 139 -- Chapman, Malcolm 129 -- Charles I -- 70 -- 77 -- Charles II 59 -- Chartist movement 192 -- Chaucer, Geoffrey 57 -- Chesapeake tobacco -- 107 -- 108 -- Church of Scotland -- 61 -- 69 -- 87 -- 142 -- and national consciousness 52 -- and national consciousness 52 -- and national consciousness 53 -- and national consciousness 53 -- and national consciousness 62 -- and national consciousness 62 -- and national consciousness 88 -- and national consciousness 88 -- and national consciousness 128 -- and national consciousness 128 -- civil society, and the state 196-7 -- clan tartans 138 -- Clarke, Tony 188 -- class consciousness -- 11-13 -- 37-8 -- 45-6 -- and ; class identity 18 -- and common interests 12-13 -- and national consciousness 11-13 -- and national consciousness 38 -- and national consciousness 44 -- and national consciousness 151 -- and national consciousness 162 -- and national consciousness 165 -- and working class 12 -- and working class 12 -- and working class 165 -- and working class 165 -- and working class 166 -- and working class 166 -- and working class 186-7.; and working class 186-7.