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This book examines the power of the past upon the present. It shows how generations of Scots have exploited and reshaped history to meet the needs of a series of presents, from the conquest of the Picts to the refounding of Parliament.

A clear and demythologised account of the military campaigns waged by the Jacobites against the Hanoverian monarchs.

The twelve new essays in this volume join the pragmatic philosophy of Deleuze to current affairs, using a contemporary context to think through and with Deleuze.

One of the core aims of the Scottish Parliament was that it would provide 'Scottish Answers to Scottish Questions'. This book asks how far that aim has been fulfilled.

This is a social and cultural history of Scotland's industrial rise and relative decline, concerned above all with the leaders and workers who produced the first and suffered in the second

This companion with a difference sets a controversial new agenda for literary-historical analysis. It cuts across familiar categories, focusing instead on literary events and texts which consitute 'landmarks' across the century.

This is the first modern edition of all Macpherson's Ossianic poetry, including Fragments of Ancient Poetry, Fingal and Temora

The Fortunes of Nigel sits among Walter Scott's richest creations in political insight and range of characterisation. Steeped in Jacobean drama, this tale shows Scott revelling in the linguistic riches of the age.

This Reader includes both the core texts in the area which are required for any course on nationalism, and a selection of more interesting, less mainstream pieces with the aim of engaging the reader with some of the contemporary debates which have reconfigured our understanding of nationalism.

The first ever edition of Hogg's letters to be published, featuring Hogg's correspondence with figures such as Sir Walter Scott, Lord Byron and Sir Robert Peel.

The Betrothed is set at the time of the Third Crusade (1189--92) and is the first of Scott's Tales of the Crusaders.

Here is an anthology with a difference. Covering all the central areas of philosophy in sixty varied readings, it nevertheless provides a compact and accessible source book.

This book explores the formative period when Scotland acquired the characteristics that enabled it to enter fully into the comity of medieval Christendom.

The first anthology to address the relationship between the events of the Nazi genocide and the intellectual concerns of contemporary literary and cultural theory in one substantial and indispensable volume.

Post-structuralism is recognised as a major force within literary and cultural studies. This book is the first to apply the theory to politics and to show the ways in which it can illuminate political theory and analysis.

This book has been written to explain the copyright system to non-legal specialists and to show why copyright issues are so fascinating and so important.

An extended philosophical analysis of the concept of judgement, important in many areas of contemporary philosophy, including epistemology, the philosophy of value and aesthetics.

This new take on Queer Theory explores the ways in which sexuality, subjectivity and sociality have been discursively produced in various historical and cultural contexts.

This is a comprehensive introduction to the study of older and present-day Scots language.

This book provides a comprehensive overview of the complex and endlessly transforming state of western environmentalism, surveying the main strands of thought from the fields of politics, philosophy, religion, and economics.

Introducing students to current controversies over the nature of the ancient economy, this volume brings together twelve influential studies by leading experts in the field.

This is an issue of our quarterly journal Hume Papers on Public Policy - the journal of the David Hume Institute.

One of the key aims of devolution in Scotland was to change the way people felt about their country and the way they were governed. This book draws on a unique range of Scottish Election Studies and Scottish Social Attitudes surveys to explore the early success -- or otherwise -- of devolution in meeting this objective.

This book provides an exploration of the continuing philosophical relevance of Deleuze. It uses him to move between thinkers such as Aristotle, Husserl, Locke, Foucault, Badiou and Agamben, leaving the reader with a comprehensive understanding of the philosophy of Deleuze and how he can be situated within a broader philosophical trajectory.

This volume offers the student and general reader a comprehensive, critically informed overview of the development of literary and cultural studies from the nineteenth century to the present day.

This well-illustrated book is the first to explore the stadium as the principal container of the modern urban crowd and a place where thousands of people gather to take part in what often appears to be modern 'religious' rituals.

A practical, hands-on introduction to philosophy written in jargon-free language, this book introduces philosophy using a step-by-step approach. It both engages the reader in philosophical activity and explains the subject matter of philosophy without diluting it.

A new edition of Scott's longest, and arguably most intriguing, novel.

Voicing Women offers fresh, theoretically inspired readings of women Renaissance writers, as well as detailed critical introductions and notes.

The scope of this collection is indicative of the breadth and diversity of music's role in cinema, as is its emphasis on musical contributions to 'non-musical' films. It brings together chapters that are concerned with the relationship between performance, music and film and the specificity of national, historical, social, and cultural contexts.