Remembering the Past in Nineteenth-Century Scotland: Commemoration, Nationality and Memory

by James J. Coleman

At a time when the Union between Scotland and England is once again under the spotlight, Remembering the Past in Nineteenth-Century Scotland examines the way in which Scotland's national heroes were once remembered as champions of both Scottish and British patriotism.
Whereas current, popular orthodoxy claims that 19th-century Scotland was a mire of sentimental Jacobitism and kow-towing unionism, this book shows that Scotland's national heroes...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0748676902
• ISBN13: 9780748676903
• Release Date: July 2014
• Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.3"