Stone Voices: The Search for Scotland - Rilegato

Ascherson, Neal

Rilegato

ISBN 10: 0809084910 ISBN 13: 9780809084913

Casa editrice: Hill & Wang Pub, 2003

Riassunto

The rediscovery of Scotland’s past and a wake-up call about its future, from a leading scholar-journalist

Scotland has a new Parliament and it has North Sea oil, but is it yet an independent, self-sustaining democracy? Is it a true nation? In Stone Voices, Neal Ascherson launches what he calls an imaginative invasion of his native land, searching for the relationships, themes, and fantasies that make up “Scotland.”

Beginning with a breathtaking portrait of the country’s landscape, and of the way humanity has indelibly marked even its rockiest contours, Ascherson takes us on a journey through Scotland’s past, interweaving his historical accounts with a rollicking report on a back-country bus expedition he joined during the 1997 referendum campaign that led to Scotland’s first modern Parliament. He asked voters then what kind of country they hoped for, what they feared, and what they expected—questions that animate his book as well.

In his search for a nation, Acherson explores many themes: the slow, hybrid formation of the Scottish people over centuries of successive immigrations; the way their most renowned intellectuals and writers came to hate the national church; the peculiar nature of their diaspora; the coexistence of their search for an “authentic” Scotland with the myths others create; and the Scots’ proud sense of true independence. Stone Voices enlightens us about Scotland, about Europe, and about the conditions for freedom that we must all seek today.

Su questo libro

Informazioni sull?autore

Neal Ascherson writes for The Independent in London and The New York Review of Books. His books include Black Sea (H&W, 1995) and The Struggles for Poland. He lives in London.

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: Hill & Wang Pub
• Data di pubblicazione: 2003
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0809084910
• ISBN 13: 9780809084913
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 326
• Contatto del produttore: non disponibile
• Persona responsabile: non disponibile