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David Torrance, ‘Standing up for Scotland’

David Torrance, ‘Standing up for Scotland’ Book Reviews Scotland’s demographic past and its demographic future. In summary, Professor Anderson, based on many decades of research, has written a book that is the gold standard that all future writings in many areas of Scottish historical demography will be critically compared. Robert E. Wright (Adam Smith Business School, University of Glasgow) David Torrance, ‘Standing up for Scotland’: Nationalist unionism and Scottish party politics, 1884–2014 (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2020. Pp. 258. Hardback, ISBN 9781474447812, £80.00) DOI: 10.3366/jshs.2021.0318 David Torrance’s latest book explores well-trodden ground but with greater fluency than most previous accounts. ‘Standing up for Scotland’ considers thinking within each of Scotland’s main parties on the evolution of Scotland’s relations with the rest of the UK. There is remarkable evenness to the chapters dealing with each party in turn, drawing on a wide range of sources. Torrance brings a journalist’s skill and experience to synthesise existing published work in a highly readable form. But it would be wrong to suggest this is only a work of synthesis. Ample new, well-chosen primary material contributes to a thesis that runs throughout the book. The thesis may not be original but what it lacks in originality, it makes up for http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Journal of Scottish Historical Studies Edinburgh University Press

David Torrance, ‘Standing up for Scotland’

Mitchell, James
Journal of Scottish Historical Studies , Volume 41 (1): 2 – May 1, 2021
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Book Reviews Scotland’s demographic past and its demographic future. In summary, Professor Anderson, based on many decades of research, has written a book that is the gold standard that all future writings in many areas of Scottish historical demography will be critically compared. Robert E. Wright (Adam Smith Business School, University of Glasgow) David Torrance, ‘Standing up for Scotland’: Nationalist unionism and Scottish party politics, 1884–2014 (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2020. Pp. 258. Hardback, ISBN 9781474447812, £80.00) DOI: 10.3366/jshs.2021.0318 David Torrance’s latest book explores well-trodden ground but with greater fluency than most previous accounts. ‘Standing up for Scotland’ considers thinking within each of Scotland’s main parties on the evolution of Scotland’s relations with the rest of the UK. There is remarkable evenness to the chapters dealing with each party in turn, drawing on a wide range of sources. Torrance brings a journalist’s skill and experience to synthesise existing published work in a highly readable form. But it would be wrong to suggest this is only a work of synthesis. Ample new, well-chosen primary material contributes to a thesis that runs throughout the book. The thesis may not be original but what it lacks in originality, it makes up for

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Published: May 1, 2021

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