Changing Scotland
Society, Politics and Identity
Format:Paperback
Publisher:Edinburgh University Press
Publishing:31st Oct '25
£19.99
This title is due to be published on 31st October, and will be despatched as soon as possible.
Twenty-five years of a Scottish parliament presents the opportunity to take stock of a new Scotland, to be seen in the context of wider social, political and cultural changes occurring over the previous fifty years. The book draws upon a wealth of empirical material to enable us to ‘read’ this changing Scotland. The time-frame is crucial. We can now see that the transformative moment lay in the long decade of the late 1960s and 1970s, when social, economic and political processes began to transform Scotland in a radical way. Fifty years on, we live in a quite different country. Scotland sits at the nexus of three key concepts: civil society, nation and state. This book tells that story, explains how it came about and its legacy in understanding this new Scotland.
David McCrone is the pre-eminent sociologist of Scotland. For several decades, he has been investigating the transformation of Scotland from a fairly contented acceptance of its three-centuries-old partnership with the rest of the UK into an increasingly disgruntled ambivalence about that Union's future. McCrone's immense breadth of knowledge places Scotland in an international context that places this small nation's experience as symptomatic of the age. -- Lindsay Paterson (Emeritus), The University of Edinburgh
This account of Scotland since the Second World War is much more than a history. It is a theoretically. sophisticated and well evidenced account of the transformation of a nation through economic, social, cultural and political change. It demonstrates convincingly how common global trends are transformed as they encounter different national societies - and not just nation-states. -- Michael Keating (Emeritus), The University of Aberdeen
This outstanding book, describing Scotland’s past, present and potential future, is lucid, persuasive, reliable and on top of recent theories and data. It deserves the largest possible audience. -- John Hall (Emeritus), McGill University
ISBN: 9781399534017
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304 pages