Subverting Scotland's past: Scottish Whig historians and the creation of an Anglo-British identity, 1689-c. 1830

Abstract

Introduction Prologue: National identity in late medieval and early modern Scotland Part I. The End of the Tradition: 1. History, national identity and the union of 1707 2. Presbyterian historiography and the age of Wodow 3. Scottish whig historiography, 1707-c.1750 Part II. Disenchantment: 4. The decline of the ancient Scottish constitution 5. Faultlines in Scotland's unusable past 6. Presbyterianism and whig historiography in the age of Robertson 7. The Scottish construction of Anglo-British identity Part III. Critical Renewal: 8. Enlightened reconstructions: The routes of James Macpherson and Gilbert Stuart 9. History and national identity in the age of Scott Conclusion.