The Independence of Scotland: Self-Government and the Shifting Politics of Union by Keating, Michael

Oxford University Press. 2009 Oxford University Press first edition first printing hardback; Very Good condition ex-library copy, usual plate and stamps, once loaned so sound and clean, with very good unclipped dj in plastic sleeve; UK dealer, immediate dispatch . Very Good. Hardback. 1st Edition. 1st Printing. 2009.

OUP Oxford. Very Good/Very Good. 2009. Hard Cover. 8vo 0199545952 Dust jacket complete, unclipped. Original cloth boards with bright gilt titling on spine. No ownership marks. viii, (2) 214 pages clean and tight. After three hundred years, the Anglo-Scottish Union is in serious difficulty. This is not because of a profound cultural divide between England and Scotland but because recent decades have seen the rebuilding of Scotland as a political community while the ideology and practices of the old unionism have atrophied. Yet while Britishness is in decline, it has not been replaced by a dominant ideology of Scottish independence. Rather Scots are looking to renegotiate union to find a new place in the Isles, in Europe, and in the world. There are few legal, constitutional or political obstacles to Scottish independence, but an independent Scotland would need to forge a new social and economic project as a small nation in the global market-place, and there has been little serious… Read More

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Hardback. New. In a thought-provoking analysis Keating reviews the political, constitutional, and legal issues around Scottish independence and the political economy of independence, surveying the options for a social and economic project for an independent Scotland.

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