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Book SynopsisThis book takes a timely look at how Scotland's national politics have been expressed in its buildings, exploring the role the architecture of Scotland in particular its world-famous castle architecture' has played the ongoing narrative of Scots national identity.
Scotch Baronial examines many of the country's most important historic buildings from the palaces left behind by the lost' monarchy, to revivalist castles and proud town halls examining their architectural styles and tracing their wildly fluctuating political and national connotations. An introduction to a key episode in British architectural history, and a valuable resource for anyone studying the role of architecture in narratives of nationalism and empire globally,
Scotch Baronial ends by bringing the story into the 21st century, exploring how contemporary neo-modernist' architecture in today's Scotland, as exemplified in the Holyrood parliament, relates to concepts of national identity in architecture ov
Trade ReviewAn ambitious and wide-ranging account of the complex interplay, over more than eight centuries, between castellated architecture and changing concepts of national identity in Scotland ... The authors are to be congratulated on maintaining an appropriate balance and pace across such a broad chronological span and such an intricately interwoven set of themes. * Castle Studies *
It is always a pleasure to pick up an elegantly written book, which wears its research lightly, yet doesn’t skimp on scholarship. * Innes Review *
Glendinning and Mackenchnie are alive to the political and social developments that underscored Scottish architectural practice. … Scotch Baronial is an absorbing and authoritative study that should invite a wide readership. * Scotia: Interdisciplinary Journal of Scottish Studies *
Table of ContentsIntroduction: Pre-1603 Scotland: Castellated Architecture and ‘Martial Independence’
Part I: Absent Monarchs and Civil Strife Chapter 1: 1603-1660: Empty royal palaces and castellated court architecture Chapter 2: 1660-1689: From restitution to rejection of the old order Chapter 3: 1689-1750: The architecture of dynastic struggle
Part II: From ‘Romantic Scotland’ to ‘Imperial Scotland’ Chapter 4: 1750-1790: Enlightenment and Romanticism Chapter 5: 1790-1820: Scotland and England in the Age of Revolutionary War Chapter 6: 1820-40: Scott, Abbotsford and ‘Scotch’ Romanticism Chapter 7: 1840-70: Billings and Bryce: mid-century Baronial Chapter 8: 1870-1900: Traditionalism Chapter 9: External reflections: ‘national’ Scottish architecture and the empire
Part III: The Twentieth Century Chapter 10: 1914 onwards: Scottish architectural identity in the age of Modernism Conclusion: The architecture of Unionist Nationalism – and its international significance Bibliography Index
