CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2007
| Author | MacMillan, Ian Haig Douglas |
|---|---|
| Title | Struggles With Scottish Nationalism: From Darien to the Scottish Enlightenment |
| Summary | This project aims to illuminate the intermingled threads of Scottish political thought in the 18th century. Tracing the main themes of liberty, nation, and economic thought which served to dominate the discourse in Scottish society as a means to greater understanding of how the Scottish people understood their relationship to England and Great Britain. Looking at the problem both synchronically and diachronically and using other techniques from the history of ideas enables the concepts to be placed within their historical context and sketch out their evolution. This leads to the conclusion that a changing conceptualization of liberty effectively emasculating an adolescent nationalist movement in Scotland. |
| Supervisor | Kontler, Laszlo; Lojko, Miklos |
| Department | History MA |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2007/macmillan_ian.pdf |
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