Standing Up for Scotland: Nationalist Unionism and Scottish Party Politics, 1884-2014 Torrance David

Specifikacia Standing Up for Scotland: Nationalist Unionism and Scottish Party Politics, 1884-2014 Torrance David

A history of 'hidden' nationalism in Scottish party politicsHighlights the hidden 'nationalism' of the Scottish Unionist/Conservative Party and extends this analysis to Scottish Labour and Liberal partiesExamines the 'unionism' of the Scottish National Party (SNP) for the first timeDraws on high-circulation media resources such as the Scottish Daily Express - breaking the scholarly reliance on the less-read Herald and ScotsmanMakes use of hitherto-neglected archive material, including the Scottish Political Archive in Stirling and the Parliamentary Archives at WestminsterDavid Torrance reassesses the relationship between 'nationalism' and 'unionism' in Scottish politics, challenging a binary reading of the two ideologies with the concept of 'nationalist unionism'. Scottish nationalism did not begin with the SNP in 1934, nor was it