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David McCrone is emeritus Professor of Sociology at the University of Edinburgh; a Fellow of the British Academy, and the Royal Society of Edinburgh. He co-founded the university’s Institute of Governance in 1999, and has written extensively on the sociology and politics of Scotland, and the comparative study of nationalism. His books include Who Runs Edinburgh? (Edinburgh University Press, 2022), The New Sociology of Scotland (Sage Publications, 2017), and The Sociology of Nationalism: tomorrow’s ancestors (Routledge, 1998). He coordinated a series of studies on national identity in Scotland and in England, funded by The Leverhulme Trust, which culminated in his co-authored book Understanding National Identity, published in 2015 by Cambridge University Press.David McCrone is the pre-eminent sociologist of Scotland. For several decades, he has been investigating the transformation of Scotland from a fairly contented acceptance of its three-centuries-old partnership with the rest of the UK into an increasingly disgruntled ambivalence about that Union's future. McCrone's immense breadth of knowledge places Scotland in an international context that places this small nation's experience as symptomatic of the age.
- Lindsay Paterson (Emeritus), The University of Edinburgh,
This account of Scotland since the Second World War is much more than a history. It is a theoretically sophisticated and well-evidenced account of the transformation of a nation through economic, social, cultural and political change. It demonstrates convincingly how common global trends are transformed as they encounter different national societies – and not just nation-states.
- Michael Keating (Emeritus), The University of Aberdeen,
This outstanding book, describing Scotland’s past, present and potential future, is lucid, persuasive, reliable and on top of recent theories and data. It deserves the largest possible audience.
- John Hall (Emeritus), McGill University,