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Book Synopsis700 years of people in Scotland, England, Europe, and the world fighting for freedom, sovereignty, independence and justice are investigated in the essential periods and cultures since the 1320 Declaration of Arbroath: the Middle Ages, the Reformation and Early Modern Age, the English Revolution, the Enlightenment, the Industrial Revolution, the 19th, 20th, and 21st centuries. Cultural, media, political, and social studies, history, the law, art, philosophy, and literature are used for an analysis of the evolution of human rights, democracy, freedom, individual as well as national independence and justice in connection with past and present threats to them. Threats from politics, the economy, digitalisation, artificial intelligence, people's ignorance.
With contributions by Alasdair Allan MSP, Christopher J. Berry, Neil Blain, Alexander Broadie FRSE, Dauvit Broun, Mark P. Bruce, Ewen A. Cameron, Robert Crawford, Ian Duncan, Richard J. Finlay, David Forrest, Edouard Gaudot, Marjory Harper, Sarah Longlands, Ben McConville, David McCrone, Aileen McHarg, John Morrison, Klaus Peter Müller, Hugh O’Donnell, Murray Pittock, Anthony Salamone, David R. Sorensen, Silke Stroh, Christopher A. Whatley and Ben Wray.
Table of ContentsContents
Arbroath 1320 to 2020: 700 Years of Fighting for Freedom, Sovereignty, and Independence in Scotland, England, Europe and the World
Klaus Peter Müller (Mainz)
I. C. 1000–1500: The Middle Ages
(Post)Colonial Contexts of the Declaration: Conquest, Resistance and the Ambiguities of Writing Back
Silke Stroh (Münster)
The Declaration of Arbroath in the Shadow of Scotus
Alexander Broadie (Glasgow)
The Declaration of Arbroath and Contractual Kingship: Reading the Deposition Clause in the Middle Ages
Dauvit Broun (Glasgow)
II. 1500–1800: The Early Modern Age (Renaissance, Reformation, Revolution) and the Enlightenment
‘He Is Not a Scot—Christ! Who Is Not Pleased with This Book’: Arbroath, Scotichronicon, and the Production of Scottish Identity
Mark P. Bruce (St. Paul)
Concepts of Freedom, Sovereignty, and Independence in the English Revolution: John Milton and the Levellers
Klaus Peter Müller (Mainz)
The Declaration of Arbroath in Scottish Political Thought, 1689–1789
Murray Pittock (Glasgow)
Ideas of Dependency and Freedom in the Scottish Enlightenment
Christopher J. Berry (Glasgow)
III. 1800–2000: Scottish Diaspora, Romanticism, Imagery, the Industrial Revolution, Political Reforms, Scottish Nationalism
Rhetoric and Reality: The Quest for ‘Freedom’ in the Scottish Diaspora 227
Marjorie Harper (Aberdeen)
Illegitimate History: Scott’s Fictions of Sovereignty
Ian Duncan (Berkeley)
The Declaration of Arbroath and the Absence of Imagery
John Morrison (Lincoln)
Industrialising Scotland and the Nation: Nationalism, Liberty and Independence
Christopher A. Whatley (Dundee)
"Auld Round O": Carlyle, Knox, and the Declaration of Arbroath
David R. Sorensen (Philadelphia)
The Declaration of Arbroath and Scottish Nationalist Constitutional Thought in the Twentieth Century Richard J. Finlay (Strathclyde)
Scotland’s Hidden Powers? Politics and the Union in an Uncertain Age
Ewen A. Cameron (Edinburgh)
IV. 20th & 21st Centuries: The Media, the Law, Utopian & Real Struggles for Freedom, Sovereignty, Power, Independence & the Common Weal 30
"Coveting Nothing but Our Own": Arbroath and the Modern Independence Movement 397
Alasdair Allan (MSP for Na h-Eileanan an Iar)
The Declaration as Polyvalent Signifier: The Semiotics of Absence in the Representation of Scotland
Neil Blain (Stirling)
(Re)Covering the Declaration of Arbroath: International Perspectives on a National Claim of Right
Ben McConville and Hugh O’Donnell (Glasgow)
Landscapes of Resistance in the English North: The Poetics of Freedom in Kes (1969) and The Selfish Giant (2013)
David Forrest (Sheffield)
The Declaration of Arbroath and Scots Law
Aileen McHarg (Durham)
Declaring Arbroath: Atque Supra Crepidam
David McCrone
Utopia in an Age of Apocalypse: A Reflection on the Politics of Europe and Ecology
Edouard Gaudot (Paris/Brussels)
Brexit and Scotland’s Independence Debate: New Arguments for Autonomy
Anthony Salamone (Edinburgh)
Taking Back Control: Devolution, Agency and Brexit in the North of England
Sarah Longlands (Manchester)
The Declaration of Arbroath, Contemporary Nationalist Mythology and the Common Weal
Ben Wray (Glasgow)
Afterword: A Public Declaration
Robert Crawford (St Andrews)
List of Figures
List of Tables
Contributors
Index
