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The Highland Clearances: Landscape as a Record of Dispossession
Driving across the Scottish Highlands today gives the feeling of emptiness—wide glens with few communities, scattered ruins, and enormous swaths of open countryside. This apparent "natural" …
Scottish Identity and Devolution: Nationhood Without Full Sovereignty
Modern Scotland has a political and social configuration that defies traditional notions of nationhood. It is a country with a strong cultural identity, although it functions inside …
Glasgow: From Industrial Powerhouse to Cultural Reinvention
Glasgow is one of the most compelling cases of urban transition in post-industrial Europe. Glasgow was a global shipbuilding, engineering, and trading hub in the nineteenth and …
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