Subverting Scotland's Past: Scottish Whig Historians and the Creation of an Anglo-British Identity 1689–1830

by Colin Kidd

• ISBN13: 9780521520195
• ISBN10: 0521520193
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2003-12-18
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Summary

This book examines how the intellectual developments of the Scottish Enlightenment undermined Scotland's sense of nationalism.

Table of Contents

Introduction

Prologue: National identity in late medieval and early modern Scotland

Part I. The End of the Tradition: 1. History, national identity and the union of 1707

2. Presbyterian historiography and the age of Wodow

3. Scottish whig historiography, 1707-c.1750

Part II. Disenchantment: 4. The decline of the ancient Scottish constitution

5. Faultlines in Scotland's unusable past

6. Presbyterianism and whig historiography in the age of Robertson

7. The Scottish construction of Anglo-British identity

Part III. Critical Renewal: 8. Enlightened reconstructions: The routes of James Macpherson and Gilbert Stuart

9. History and national identity in the age of Scott

Conclusion.