Standing Up for Scotland

Nationalist Unionism and Scottish Party Politics, 1884-2014

von David Torrance

256 Seiten, Taschenbuch

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

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.

• Themen: Gesellschaft und Sozialwissenschaften Politik und Staat Politische Ideologien und Bewegungen Nationalismus und nationalistische Ideologien und Bewegungen
• ISBN: 9781474447829
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 03.03.2022
• Größe: 234 x 156 mm
• Verlag: Edinburgh University Press