Scottish politicians

The Case for Scottish Independence; a History of Nationalist Political Thought in Modern Scotland

Author / Creator: Ben Jackson

Media type: Book

Date published: 2020

An influential separatist Scottish nationalism began to take shape only in the 1970s and achieved its present ideological maturity in the course of the 1980s and 1990s. It was unusual in that it demanded independence not to defend a threatened ancestral culture but as the most effective way to promote the agenda of the left.