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The Scots Imagination and Modern Memory : Representations of Belonging.

This highly original study explores how different, but connected ways of seeing infuse relationships between place and belonging. Its argument is that all memories, whether fleeting glimpses or elaborated narratives, necessarily invoke imagined pasts - tenement life, island cultures, vanished morali...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Blaikie, Andrew
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, 2010.
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  • Cover; Copyright; Contents; Figures; Acknowledgements; Chapter 1 Scotland and the places of memory; Section I Encountering Modernity; Chapter 2 Before and after modernity: the legacy of Adam Ferguson; Chapter 3 The eyes of modernity: John Grierson's sociology; Section II Placing Identities; Chapter 4 Among the wee Nazareths: myths of moral community; Chapter 5 Retrieving 'that invisible leeway': landscapes, cultures, belonging; Section III Local Visions; Chapter 6 A pattern of islands: photographs in the cultural account; Chapter 7 Remembering 'The Forgotten Gorbals'
  • Chapter 8 Finding ways homeIndex.