Graeme Morton shows that identity, like industry, is a key element in explaining the period 1832-1914. Ourselves and Others is about ‘us and them’, the dialectic of national identity formation.
A deconstruction of the national biography and mythology of William Wallace. Freed from the historian’s bedrock of empiricism by a lack of corroborative sources, the biography of this short-lived late-medieval patriot has long been incorporated into the ideology of nationalism.
Graeme Morton shows that identity, like industry, is a key element in explaining the period 1832-1914. Ourselves and Others is about ‘us and them’, the dialectic of national identity formation.