The Independence of Scotland: Self-Government and the Shifting Politics of Union

by Michael Keating

After three hundred years, the Anglo-Scottish Union is in serious difficulty. This is not because of a profound cultural divide between England and Scotland but because recent decades have seen the rebuilding of Scotland as a political community while the ideology and practices of the old unionism have atrophied. Yet while Britishness is in decline, it has not been replaced by a dominant ideology of Scottish independence. Rather Scots are looking...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199545952
• ISBN13: 9780199545957
• Release Date: November 2009
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 226 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.2" x 9.3"