Imagining the 'Mongrel Nation': Political uses of history in the recent Scottish nationalist movement

National Identities

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 23-50

  Kearton, Antonia ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Elite discourse; History; Myth; Nationalist movement; Scottish nationalism

Indexed keywords

EID: 19044384544     PISSN: 14608944     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/14608940500072933     Document Type: Article

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