The Wealth of the Nation: Scotland, Culture and Independence

by Cairns Craig

Book Overview

The Wealth of the Nation explores how Scotland has continued to assert its distinctive cultural difference despite the three-hundred-year union with England and the modern forces of globalisation. Dealing with Scotland since the eighteenth century, the study analyses how Scottish culture defined itself within the British Empire and how, in the late twentieth century, it recovered from the collapse of the Empire to rebuild the value of its...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1474435580
• ISBN13: 9781474435581
• Release Date: March 2018
• Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
• Length: 312 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.5" x 8.3"