Standing Up for Scotland

Nationalist Unionism and Scottish Party Politics, 1884-2014

AvDavid Torrance

Inbunden, Engelska, 2020

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Beskrivning

David Torrance reassesses the relationship between 'nationalism' and 'unionism' in Scottish politics, challenging a binary reading of the two ideologies with the concept of 'nationalist unionism'. Scottish nationalism did not begin with the SNP in 1934, nor was it confined to political parties that desired independent statehood. Rather, it was more dispersed, with the Liberal, Conservative and Labour parties all attempting to harness Scottish national identity and nationalism between 1884 and 2014, often with the paradoxical goal of strengthening rather than ending the Union. The book combines nationalist theory with empirical historical and archival research to argue that these conceptions of Scottish nationhood had much more in common with each other than is commonly accepted.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2020-05-26
Mått:156 x 234 x 25 mm
Vikt:542 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:256
Förlag:Edinburgh University Press
ISBN:9781474447812

Utforska kategorier

Nationalism inom Samhälle och politik
Politiska partier inom Samhälle och politik

Mer om författaren

David Torrance is a constitutional specialist at the House of Commons Library. He is also the author or editor of more than 20 books on Scottish politics, history and biography, including five with EUP. He completed a PhD in history and political science at the University of the West of Scotland in 2017. His most recent book was The Wild Men: The Remarkable Story of Britain’s First Labour Government (Bloomsbury Continuum, 2024).

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The book is an obvious good starting point for anyone seeking to understand the historical background to debates on the party political dimension of the Scottish Question. It provides an important corrective to much ill-informed and over-heated rhetoric of debates today. And it is very well written.

Innehållsförteckning

Acknowledgements; 1. Prelude; 2. Nationalist unionism; 3. ‘Every Scotsman should be a Scottish Nationalist’; 4. ‘Scottish Control of Scottish Affairs’; 5. Scottish (Conservative and) Unionist Party – rise and fall'; 6. The Scottish Liberals and ‘Scottish Self-Government’; 7. The Scottish Labour Party and ‘crypto-nationalism’; 8. The SNP and ‘five continuing unions’; 9. ‘The fair claims of Wales’; 10. Northern Ireland and ‘Ulster nationalism’; 11. Conclusion; 12. Bibliography; 13. Endnotes.