The Scots Imagination and Modern Memory

by Andrew Blaikie

Andrew Blaikie explores how different, but connected, ways of seeing infuse relationships between place and belonging. He argues that all memories, whether fleeting glimpses or elaborate narratives, invoke imagined pasts, be these of tenement life, island cultures, vanished moralities, even the origins of social science. But do these recollections share a common frame of reference? Are our perceptions conditioned by a collective social imaginary?...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0748617876
• ISBN13: 9780748617876
• Release Date: August 2013
• Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
• Length: 272 Pages
• Age Range: 22 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher