Why Scots Should Rule Scotland, 1997
Published on 20. February 2014
128 pages
978-1-78211-432-1 (ISBN)
Description
Alsadair Gray wrote the first edition of this book for the 1992 general election. In it he showed the poor state of present-day Scotland; gave a concise, elegant history of the Scottish people and their relations with the rulers of England; argued that Scotland should have a strong government elected by its own people. Five years later Scotland still does not have that and its state has worsened.
The original chapters have been revised and largely rewritten. New chapters dealing with Scottish education, land owning, and law and the Labour Party bring the argument to date.
This is a more openly political book than the first edition, written to persuade people who feel their vote does not much influence how their country is managed that Scottish independence matters, and that only one political party is honestly working to achieve it.
The original chapters have been revised and largely rewritten. New chapters dealing with Scottish education, land owning, and law and the Labour Party bring the argument to date.
This is a more openly political book than the first edition, written to persuade people who feel their vote does not much influence how their country is managed that Scottish independence matters, and that only one political party is honestly working to achieve it.
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Edition
Main
Language
English
Place of publication
Edinburgh
United Kingdom
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
ISBN-13
978-1-78211-432-1 (9781782114321)
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Alasdair Gray
Why Scots Should Rule Scotland
Book
04/1997
2nd Edition
Canongate Books
€26.19
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Person
Born in 1934, Alasdair Gray graduated in design and mural painting from the Glasgow School of Art. Since 1981, when Lanark was published by Canongate, he authored, designed and illustrated seven novels, several books of short stories, a collection of his stage, radio and TV plays and a book of his visual art, A Life in Pictures. In November 2019, he received a Lifetime Achievement award by the Saltire Society. He died in December 2019, aged eighty-five.
Content
- Intro
- Half-title Page
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Contents
- Introduction
- 1 The Ground of Argument
- 2 Feudal & Clan Systems
- 3 National Theft & Recovery
- 4 A Kind of Freedom
- 5 Reformations
- 6 Uniting British Crowns
- 7 Uniting British Parliaments
- 8 Disaster & Recovery
- 9 Democracy: American Dawn
- 10 Quackocracy
- 11 Into Living Memory
- 12 Democracy: British Dawn & Eclipse
- 13 The Unluckiest Chapter
- 14 Wellbeing: a Fiction
