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Remembering the past in nineteenth-century Scotland : commemoration, nationality, and memory /

Exposes ever-changing attitudes to Scotland's national heroes, from Wallace the unionist paragon to Knox the national hero. 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 Scot...

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Détails bibliographiques
Cote:Libro Electrónico
Auteur principal: Coleman, James J. (Auteur)
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2014]
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Accès en ligne:Texto completo
Table des matières:
  • Introduction: The valley cemetery
  • Nationality, memory and commemoration
  • Scottish nationality in the nineteenth century
  • 'Not servile and conquered, but free and independent': commemorating William Wallace and Robert the Bruce
  • 'The highest position in the civilised world': commemorating John Knox and the second reformation
  • 'If they were rebels then, we are rebels now': commemorating the covenanters and the glorious revolution
  • 'By the imprudence of his ancestors': commemorating Jacobitism and Mary Queen of Scots
  • 'Staunch loyalty to the flag that stands for union'