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Scottish History
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Scott found himself caught between a deep-seated loyalty to, and knowledge of, his country and an equally fundamental commitment to the Union with England. He sought to find a way for Scotland to accommodate its sense of identity with the economic and other benefits of being a partner in the greatest empire the world had yet seen, This was both a deliberate and a subconscious for a highly intelligent, complex, energetic and emotional man. To complete it successfully, the Scottish past had to b t
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― Finding Out the Rest: History and Scotland Now
― Finding Out the Rest: History and Scotland Now
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Burton's History of Scotland and the widespread welcome it received, both within the nation and internationally, is incompatible with the view that Scottish history suffered a mortal decline, that there was some kind of atypical, catastrophic failure of national historical confidence in the second half of the nineteenth century. On the contrary, the country produced, and welcomed, a national narrative that incorporated the full range of characteristics typifying the national histories produced a
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― Recovering Scottish History: John Hill Burton and Scottish National Identity in the Nineteenth Century
― Recovering Scottish History: John Hill Burton and Scottish National Identity in the Nineteenth Century
