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Intro -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- Abbreviations -- 1. The Scottish Home Rule Association and Scottish Politics 1918-1928 -- 2. The Scots National League 1920 - 1928 -- 3. The National Party of Scotland 1928-1933 -- 4. The Formation of the SNP 1933-1934 -- 5. The Wilderness Years (1934-1939) -- 6. The SNP During the War, 1939-1945 -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index.

One of the major projects discussed by the IALL Board of Directors at its 1975 meeting in Oslo, was the preparation of material on regional law library directories or guides.

This book examines the power of the past upon the present. It shows how generations of Scots have exploited and reshaped BG to meet the needs of a series of presents, from the conquest of the Picts to the refounding of Parliament.

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Notes on the Contributors -- List of Tables -- 1. Centenary Blues: 100 Years of Scottish Conservatism -- 2. Sociability, Status and Solidarity: Scottish Unionism in the era of Irish Home Rule, 1886-1920 -- 3. Patriotism, Paternalism and Pragmatism: Scottish Toryism, Union and Empire, 1912-65 -- 4. More than a Name: The Union and the Un-doing of Scottish Conservatism in the Twentieth Century -- 5. Smithians, Thatcherites and the Ironies of Scottish Conservative Decline -- 6. 'It's Only a Northern Song': The Constant Smirr of Anti-Thatcherism and Anti-Toryism -- 7. The Wilderness Years -- 8. Why no Tory Revival in Scotland? -- 9. Refashioning Welsh Conservatism - a Lesson for Scotland? -- 10. The Press, National Identity and the Scottish Tories -- 11. 'Handbagging' the Feminisation Thesis? Refl ections on Women in the Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party -- 12. Conservative Unionism: Prisoned in Marble -- Index

Liberalism was not only the first modern ideology, it was also the first secular movement to have an international presence. The scholarly articles in this collection, skillfully edited by Iván Zoltán Dénes, examine liberal ideas and movements from Scotland to the Ottoman Empire. The volume seeks to uncover and analyze various relationships between liberalisms and nationalisms, national identities and modernity concepts, nations and empires, nation-states and nationalities, traditions and modernities, images of the self and the others, modernization strategies and identity creations. This volume provides an important historical analysis that is essential toward understanding the questions and motivations of liberalism in the European Union today. This is, therefore, a timely contribution to both historiography and contemporary politics