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Independence or Union: Scotland's Past and Scotland's Present - Couverture souple

Devine, T. M.

 
9780141981574: Independence or Union: Scotland's Past and Scotland's Present
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 0141981571 ISBN 13 : 9780141981574
Editeur : Penguin, 2017

Synopsis

'Deserves to be read by everyone interested in the future of the United Kingdom' Andrew Marr, The Sunday Times

There can be no relationship in Europe's history more creative, significant, vexed and uneasy than that between Scotland and England. From the Middle Ages onwards the island of Britain has been shaped by the unique dynamic between Edinburgh and London, exchanging inhabitants, monarchs, money and ideas, sometimes in a spirit of friendship and at others in a spirit of murderous dislike.

Tom Devine's seminal new book explores this extraordinary history in all its ambiguity, from the seventeenth century to the present. When not undermining each other with invading armies, both Scotland and England have broadly benefitted from each other's presence - indeed for long periods of time nobody questioned the union which joined them. But as Devine makes clear, it has for the most part been a relationship based on consent, not force, on mutual advantage, rather than antagonism - and it has always held the possibility of a political parting of the ways.

With the United Kingdom under a level of scrutiny unmatched since the eighteenth century Independence or Union is the essential guide.

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À propos de l'auteur

T. M. Devine has written four books for Penguin: The Scottish Nation, Scotland's Empire, To the Ends of the Earthand Independence or Union. He is Sir William Fraser Professor Emeritus of Scottish History and Palaeography at the University of Edinburgh. In 2001 he was awarded the Royal Gold Medal, Scotland's supreme academic accolade, and has won all three major prizes for Scottish historical research. He was knighted in 2014 for services to the study of Scottish history. In 2018 he received the UK Parliament's All Party History and Archives Group Lifetime Achievement Award for Historical Studies.

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Éditeur
Penguin
Date d'édition
2017
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0141981571
ISBN 13 
9780141981574
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
320
Coordonnées du fabricant
Penguin
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