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Understanding National Identity by David McCrone
RRP: $54.60Booksplease Price: $51.66We live in a world in which being a 'citizen' of a state and being a 'national' are by no means the same. Amidst much scholarly debate about 'nations' and 'nationalism', comparatively little has been... -
Who Runs Edinburgh? by David McCrone
RRP: $31.48Booksplease Price: $29.23This book tells Edinburgh's modern story and unveils its power structure. It examines its politics, its political economy and the rise of its status as Festival city. The book explores arguments... -
Understanding Scotland: The Sociology of a Nation by David McCrone
RRP: $111.28Booksplease Price: $100.38Understanding Scotland has been recognised since publication as the key text on the sociology of Scotland. This wholly revised edition provides the first sustained study of post-devolution Scottish... -
Understanding National Identity by David McCrone 9781107100381
RRP: $153.30Booksplease Price: $147.42We live in a world in which being a 'citizen' of a state and being a 'national' are by no means the same. Amidst much scholarly debate about 'nations' and 'nationalism', comparatively little has been... -
National Days: Constructing and Mobilising National Identity by David McCrone 9780230236615
Booksplease Price: $190.18The book shows how national days are best understood in the context of debates about national identity. It argues that national days are contested and manipulated, as well as subject to political,... -
Sustainable Urban Energy Policy: Heat and the city David Hawkey 9781138826120
RRP: $111.28Booksplease Price: $99.41Minimising the most severe risks of climate change means ending societal dependence on fossil fuels, and radically improving the efficiency with which we use all energy sources. Such deliberate... -
National Identity, Nationalism and Constitutional Change by Frank Bechhofer 9780230224117
Booksplease Price: $98.15What does it mean to say you're English, Scottish, British? Does it matter much to people? Has devolution and constitutional change made a difference to national identity? Does the future of the UK... -
The Crisis of Social Democracy in Europe by Michael Keating 9781474403030
RRP: $54.58Booksplease Price: $49.73Is social democracy in a terminal condition in Europe? Social democracy is in office almost nowhere in Europe and seems to be out of ideas in the face of the economic crisis that might have given it... -
National Days: Constructing and Mobilising National Identity by D. McCrone 9781349314683
Booksplease Price: $193.56The book shows how national days are best understood in the context of debates about national identity. It argues that national days are contested and manipulated, as well as subject to political,... -
Scotland and Arbroath 1320 – 2020: 700 Years of Fighting for Freedom, Sovereignty, and Independence by Klaus Peter Müller 9783631813188
RRP: $194.57Booksplease Price: $172.39700 years of people in Scotland, England, Europe, and the world fighting for freedom, sovereignty, independence and justice are investigated in the essential periods and cultures since the 1320... -
Stateless Nations: Western European Regional Nationalisms and the Old Nations by J. Friend 9780230361799
Booksplease Price: $98.15Why are regional nationalisms threatening the old nations? This book explores examples such as why Scotland might become independent, why Wales wants more autonomy, and why Catalonia emphasizes its... -
C. Wright Mills and the Ending of Violence by J. Brewer 9780333801802
Booksplease Price: $98.15This book has two aims: to clarify the meaning of C. Wright Mills's depiction of the sociological imagination; and to use this to develop a sociological framework that assists in understanding the... -
Self and Nation by Stephen D. Reicher 9780761969204
Booksplease Price: $192.40A `RARE BOOK' FROM LOCAL AUTHORS `Here is a rare book, a truly helpful piece of work on the psychology of nationalism. Stephen Reicher and Nick Hopkins, of St Andrews and Dundee Universities, focus... -
Classical Edinburgh: A City Divided by Alan H Balfour 9781839987892
RRP: $62.98Booksplease Price: $50.69This work is both a family history and a social history of Scotland seen against a city, Edinburgh, acity that to this day is soured by class divisions. In tracing the family back several centuries,... -
The Scots Imagination and Modern Memory: Representations of Belonging by Andrew Blaikie
RRP: $210.00Booksplease Price: $190.26This highly original study explores how different, but connected ways of seeing infuse relationships between place and belonging. Its argument is that all memories, whether fleeting glimpses or... -
Politics and Society in Scotland by Alice Brown 9780333747087
Booksplease Price: $91.90Substantially revised and rewritten in the light of the 1997 General Election and Devolution referendum, the 2nd edition of this widely-used text provides an up-to-date assessment of Scottish... -
The Scottish Electorate: The 1997 General Election and Beyond by Alice Brown 9780333725252
Booksplease Price: $98.15The book draws on original academic research to discuss the outcome of the 1997 general election in Scotland and the likely future shape of Scotland's politics. It offers the most rigorous and... -
The Scottish Electorate: The 1997 General Election and Beyond by Alice Brown 9780333725269
Booksplease Price: $98.15The book draws on original academic research to discuss the outcome of the 1997 general election in Scotland and the likely future shape of Scotland's politics. It offers the most rigorous and... -
Living in Scotland: Social and Economic Change Since 1980 by Lindsay Paterson
RRP: $71.38Booksplease Price: $63.48Shortlisted for the Saltire Society/NLS Scottish Research Book of the Year Award, 2005 Living in Scotland gives an account of the key social changes in Scottish society, describing how it has been... -
Revolution or Evolution?: The 2007 Scottish Elections by John Curtice
RRP: $65.10Booksplease Price: $58.36The Scottish parliamentary and local elections of 2007 were significant for two key reasons: the SNP was brought to power for the first time in its history, posing a fundamental challenge to the... -
Revolution or Evolution?: The 2007 Scottish Elections by John Curtice 9780748638994
RRP: $210.00Booksplease Price: $190.26The Scottish parliamentary and local elections of 2007 were significant for two key reasons: the SNP was brought to power for the first time in its history, posing a fundamental challenge to the... -
The Idea of Englishness: English Culture, National Identity and Social Thought Krishan Kumar 9781138095755
RRP: $111.28Booksplease Price: $99.41Ideas of Englishness, and of the English nation, have become a matter of renewed interest in recent years as a result of threats to the integrity of the United Kingdom and the perceived rise of that... -
The Antiquity of Nations by Anthony D. Smith 9780745627458
Booksplease Price: $116.74In The Antiquity of Nations, Anthony Smith provides a fresh interpretation of the character of modern nations. Departing from conventional wisdom, he argues the case for a deeper understanding of... -
Warrior Dreams: Playing Scotsmen in Mainland Europe David Hesse 9780719091902
RRP: $178.50Booksplease Price: $130.01Why does a Parisian banker re-enact the medieval wars of Wallace and Bruce in his spare time? Why do more than 20,000 people attend the Schotse Weekend bagpipe competition in Bilzen, Flanders? Why... -
New Scotland, New Society?: Are Social and Political Ties Fragmenting? by John Curtice
RRP: $71.38Booksplease Price: $63.48New Scotland, New Society asks a series of vital questions regarding the attitudes and behaviour of the Scots. Are the ties that bind people to each other and to the democratic system fragmenting? Do... -
Scottish History: The Power of the Past by Edward J. Cowan 9780748614202
RRP: $71.38Booksplease Price: $63.48This book examines the power of the past upon the present. It shows how generations of Scots have exploited and reshaped history to meet the needs of a series of presents, from the conquest of the... -
Marjorie's Journey: On A Mission of Her Own by Ailie Cleghorn
RRP: $20.98Booksplease Price: $15.98Against the frightening backdrop of World War II, a young Scottish woman took ten children by ship through the waters of the Atlantic from Scotland to South Africa, where she set up a home for them... -
The Media in Scotland by Neil Blain
RRP: $65.10Booksplease Price: $58.99This book brings together academics, writers and politicians to explore the range and nature of the media in Scotland. The book includes chapters on the separate histories of the press, broadcasting... -
Born to Rule: The Making and Remaking of the British Elite Aaron Reeves 9780674304246
RRP: $27.20Booksplease Price: $24.49The Economist, Best Books of 2024The Times, Best Ideas Books of 2024A uniquely data-rich analysis of the British elite from the Victorian era to today: who gets in, how they get there, what they like...