The origins of Scottish nationhood / Neil Davidson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Davidson, Neil, 1957-2020.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

National characteristics, Scottish--History--18th century.

National characteristics, Scottish.

Nationalism--Scotland--History--18th century.

Nationalism.

Scotland--History--18th century.

Scotland.

Scotland--History--Union, 1707.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (272 p.)

Place of Publication:

London ; Sterling, Va. : Pluto Press, 2000.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The traditional view of the Scottish nation holds that it first arose during the Wars of Independence from England in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries. Although Scotland was absorbed into Britain in 1707 with the Treaty of Union, Scottish identity is supposed to have remained alive in the new state through separate institutions of religion (the Church of Scotland), education, and the legal system. Neil Davidson argues otherwise. The Scottish nation did not exist before 1707. The Scottish national consciousness we know today was not preserved by institutions carried over from the pre-Union period, but arose after and as a result of the Union, for only then were the material obstacles to nationhood - most importantly the Highland/Lowland divide - overcome. This Scottish nation was constructed simultaneously with and as part of the British nation, and the eighteenth century Scottish bourgeoisie were at the forefront of constructing both. The majority of Scots entered the Industrial Revolution with a dual national consciousness, but only one nationalism, which was British. The Scottish nationalism which arose in Scotland during the twentieth century is therefore not a revival of a pre-Union nationalism after 300 years, but an entirely new formation. Davidson provides a revisionist history of the origins of Scottish and British national consciousness that sheds light on many of the contemporary debates about nationalism.

Contents:

Intro

Contents

Preface, Acknowledgements, Dedication

Introduction

1. What Is National Consciousness?

Defining a Nation

National Consciousness and Class Consciousness

National Consciousness and Nationalism

What National Consciousness Is Not

2. From National Consciousness to Nation States

Psychological Formation

Geographical Extension

Social Diffusion

3. Was There a Scottish Nation Before 1707?

The 'Holy Trinity'

The Missing Components of National Consciousness

The Limits of Psychological Formation

Lowland Perceptions of Highland Society

Highland Perceptions of Lowland Society

4. Highland versus Lowland, Scotland versus England

The First Modern Britons

The Colley Thesis

5. Scotland After 1707: Oppressed or Oppressor Nation?

Internal Colonialism?

Cultural Imperialism?

The Highlands: an Exceptional Case?

Imperial Caledonia?

6. British Imperialism and National Consciousness in Scotland

Scots and the British Empire

Warriors

Colonists

7. Scottish History and Highland Mythology

Tourism and Tartanry

8. The Reality of the Highlands: Social Assimilation and the Onslaught on Gaelic Culture

The Potato Famine and the Test of Nationhood

9. Burns and Scott: Radical and Conservative Nations

Burns and Radicalism

Scott and Conservatism

Leaving the Eighteenth Century

10. Class Consciousness and National Consciousness In the Age of Revolution

The Consequences of Combined and Uneven Development 1: Economic

The Consequences of Combined and Uneven Development 2: Social and Political

Scottish Radicalism and British National Consciousness

The Britishness of Scottish Radicalism

Conclusion

Afterword

Notes

Chapter 1: What is National Consciousness?.

Chapter 2: From National Consciousness To Nation States

Chapter 3: Was There a Scottish Nation Before 1707?

Chapter 4: Highland versus Lowland, Scotland versus England

Chapter 5: Scotland After 1707: Oppressed Or Oppressor Nation?

Chapter 6: British Imperialism and National Consciousness In Scotland

Chapter 7: Scottish History and Highland Mythology

Chapter 8: The Reality of the Highlands: Social Assimilation and the Onslaught on Gaelic Culture

Chapter 9: Burns and Scott: Radical and Conservative Nations

Chapter 10: Class Consciousness and National Consciousness In the Age of Revolution

Index

Aberdeen, Battle of [1644] 71

absolutism

30-2

33

54

in Scotland 58-9

in Scotland 77

in Scotland 82

Acadia [Nova Scotia] 107

Africa, Portuguese colonies 97

Aiton, William 190

Allan, Theodore 145-6

American colonies, and Scots

76

109

American nationalism 36

American War of Independence [1776-84]

115

117

120

122

124-6

Anderson, Benedict

11

13

41

Anderson, James

80

87

Anderson, Robert 53

Anglican Church 87

Anglo-Scottish union

advantages to Scotland and England 82-3

and equality 79

and feudalism 81

and feudalism 182

and political rights 182-4

and Scottish bourgeoisie 80-1

closer union advocated 188-9

ideological origins of 82

role of religion 86-8

Anne of Denmark 137

Argyll, Earls of

58

78

Armitage, David 107

artisan guilds

177-8

185-6

Asquith, H.H. 95

Atlantic working class 45

Australia 87

Azeglio, Massimo d' 37

Baines, Paul 135

Baird, John 203

banal nationalism 18-19

Bannerman, Campbell 95

Bannockburn, Battle of [1314]

48

50-1

Barnard, F.M. 22.

Barrington, William Wildman, Viscount 120

Barrow, Geoffrey

72

Barthes, Roland 205

Bartlett, Robert 25

Basilicon Doron 65

Bawcutt, Patricia 65

Beattie, James 130

Bell, Ian 2

Bernard of Linton 48

Berresford Ellis, Peter

104

157

166

167

Beveridge, Craig

96

205

206

207

Bible

and concept of nation 24-5

German translation of 29-30

in vernacular 32-3

in vernacular 57

Biddiss, Michael 15

Billig, Michael

15

16

17

18

19

29

36

Bismarck, Prince Otto von 36

Black Watch

118

Blair, Hugh 130

Boece, Hector

65

133

Bolingbroke, Henry St John 19

Bonnymuir, Battle of [1820] 180

Bothwell Bridge, Battle of [1679] 66

bourgeoisie

31-2

33-5

Bowman, John 135-6

Braverman, Harry 172

Braxfield, Robert Macqueen, lord 186

Brayshaw, Joseph 191

Breuilly, John

13-14

35

44

Brims, John 189

British army

116-22

and Highland costume 136-7

and Highland costume 138

and Highlanders 118-19

Lowland officers 117

British consciousness

189-90

191-3

and British nationalism 202

British Empire

and national consciousness 112

and national consciousness 114

and Scottish economy 107

participation of Scots 106-11

participation of Scots 113

participation of Scots 197

participation of Scots 202

British Fisheries Society 139

British nationalism

193

202

British state

197-8

and nation-building 46

and Scottish and Irish workers 194

as nationstate 197

core/periphery relationship 91-2

core/periphery relationship 94

formation of new ruling class 78

Great Britain as Scotticism 109

idea of 79

rights and obligations 198

Britishness

79

114.

130

201-2

and British Empire 112-13

and British Empire 115

and Burns, Robert 157

and general strike proclamation 191

and Scottish bourgeoisie 80

as elite identity 166

Colley thesis 85-9

colonial 122

conflated with Englishness 201

construction of 85-6

construction of 89

role of religion 85-6

Scottish component 101-2

Scottish component 126-7

Brown, Callum 61

Bruce, Robert

49-50

155

190

198

Brutus the Trojan

25

49

Buchanan, Keith 103

Burgess, Keith 92

Burns, Marilyn 155

Burns, Robert

97

100

152-9

162-3

208

and Britishness 157

and Britishness 158

and Britishness 159

and dual national consciousness 151

and dual national consciousness 162-3

and dual national consciousness 167

and Jacobitism 155-6

and monarchy 156

and monarchy 157

and radicalism 154-9

and radicalism 190

and Scottish nationalism 154-5

and Scottish nationalism 158

and universal solidarity 153

and universal solidarity 154

background 152

contradictions 158-9

different interpretations of 155-7

Burns, William 111

Burt, Edward

75

Bute, John Stuart, Earl of

83

84

Cairns, John

32

59

Calder, Angus

46

90

102

158

Caledonian Asylum 139

Callender, James

110

111

191

Callinicos, Alex

40

91

170

Cameron of Locheil 137

Campbell, James 103

Campbells

71

73

74

124

Canada

107

114

canals 107

Cannadine, David

64

69

89

Cape Breton Island 106

capitalism

and bourgeoisie 34

and exploitation 39

and exploitation 45

and national consciousness 54

and nationalism 27-8

and nationalism 27-8.

and nationalism 33

and nationalism 33

and nationalism 35-6

and nationalism 37

and nationalism 41

and nationalism 44-5

and nationalism 47

effect on Scottish society 178-9

impact on feudal society 28

Carlyle, Thomas

56

99

Carron Iron Works 171

Catalonia 33

Catherine the Great 102

Catholic relief 88

Catholics/Catholicism

and national identity 32

and national identity 33

and radicalism 180

France 85

France 86

in Highland society 69

Irish 146

Irish 180-1

Irish 194-5

Cavour, C.B. conte di 36

Celtic nationalism 91

Celtification 139

Chapman, Malcolm 129

Charles I

70

77

Charles II 59

Chartist movement 192

Chaucer, Geoffrey 57

Chesapeake tobacco

108

Church of Scotland

61

142

and national consciousness 52

and national consciousness 53

and national consciousness 62

and national consciousness 88

and national consciousness 128

civil society, and the state 196-7

clan tartans 138

Clarke, Tony 188

class consciousness

11-13

37-8

45-6

and class identity 18

and common interests 12-13

and national consciousness 11-13

and national consciousness 38

and national consciousness 44

and national consciousness 151

and national consciousness 162

and national consciousness 165

and working class 12

and working class 165

and working class 166

and working class 186-7.

and working class 186-7.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781783715695

1783715693

9780585425740

0585425744

9781849640855

1849640858

OCLC:

86081823