Union and Unionisms

A major survey of Scotland's dominant ideology over the past three centuries by one of its leading historians.

Preface; 1. Introduction: the problems of unionism and banal unionism; 2. Unionisms before union, 1500-1707; 3. Analytic unionism and the issue of sovereignty; 4. Narratives of belonging: the history and ethnology of organic union; 5. From assimilationist jurisprudence to legal nationalism; 6. The two kingdoms and the ecclesiology of union; 7. Early nationalism as a form of unionism; 8. Conclusion.