Subverting Scotland's Past: Scottish Whig Historians and the Creation of an Anglo-British Identity 1689â€“1830

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Summary

This book examines how the intellectual developments of the Scottish Enlightenment undermined Scotland's sense of nationalism.

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Introduction
Prologue: National identity in late medieval and early modern Scotland
Part I. The End of the Tradition: 1. History, national identity and the union of 1707
2. Presbyterian historiography and the age of Wodow
3. Scottish whig historiography, 1707-c.1750
Part II. Disenchantment: 4. The decline of the ancient Scottish constitution
5. Faultlines in Scotland's unusable past
6. Presbyterianism and whig historiography in the age of Robertson
7. The Scottish construction of Anglo-British identity
Part III. Critical Renewal: 8. Enlightened reconstructions: The routes of James Macpherson and Gilbert Stuart
9. History and national identity in the age of Scott
Conclusion.