Description: Further DetailsTitle: The CaledoniadCondition: NewSubtitle: The Making of Scottish HistoryEAN: 9780859767200ISBN: 9780859767200Publisher: John Donald Publishers LtdFormat: HardbackRelease Date: 10/17/2024Description: Why did Scots in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries know so little about their past and even less about those who controlled their history? Is the historical narrative the only legitimate medium through which the past can be made known? Are novelists and historians as far apart as convention has it? In an age when history grounds any claims to national status, these are important questions and they have implications for how Scottish history has evolved, and how Scottish identity has been understood up to the present day. Scottish history is not simply the distillation of Scotland’s past: authors shape what we know and how we judge our forebears. This book investigates who decided which Scottish voices of the past would be heard in history’s pages and which would ultimately be silenced. It sketches a picture of a narrow and privileged cultural elite that responded belatedly to a more democratic age and only slowly embraced women writers and the interests of ‘average’ Scots. Integrating historical fiction and popular histories in its appreciation of the Scottish historical imaginary, it most importantly tells the story of why, despite the interests of politicians and others, a truly British history has never emerged. 'A brilliant, scholarly yet highly readable work which enlarges our understanding of what Scottish history is, and reinforces why it really matters' - James RobertsonLanguage: EnglishCountry/Region of Manufacture: GBItem Height: 234mmItem Length: 156mmItem Width: 30mmItem Weight: 1027gAuthor: Catriona M.M. MacDonaldGenre: HistoryTopic: Home Garden & PetsRelease Year: 2024 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.
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Publication Name: The Caledoniad
Title: The Caledoniad
Subtitle: The Making of Scottish History
EAN: 9780859767200
ISBN: 9780859767200
Release Date: 10/17/2024
Release Year: 2024
Country/Region of Manufacture: GB
Item Weight: 1027g
Book Title: Caledoniad : the Making of Scottish History
Number of Pages: 368 Pages
Language: English
Publisher: Birlinn, The Limited
Item Height: 1.2 in
Publication Year: 2024
Topic: Europe / Great Britain / Scotland, Social History, General, Europe / Great Britain / General
Genre: History
Author: Catriona M. M. Macdonald
Item Length: 9.2 in
Item Width: 6.2 in
Format: Hardcover
