Why Scots Should Rule Scotland. Alasdair Gray

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      WHY

      SCOTS

      SHOULD

      RULE

      SCOT

      LAND

      1997

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      WHY

      SCOTS

      SHOULD

      RULE

      SCOT

      LAND

      1997

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      A CARNAPTIOUS

      HISTORY OF

      BRITAIN FROM

      ROMAN TIMES

      UNTIL NOW BY

      ALASDAIR

      GRAY

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      CANONGATE

      FIRST PUBLISHED IN SCOTLAND, 1997, BY CANONGATE BOOKS 14 HIGH STREET EDINBURGH EH1 1TE

      THIS DIGITAL EDITION FIRST PUBLISHED IN 2013 BY CANONGATE BOOKS

      © ALASDAIR GRAY, 1997 ASSERTS HIS RIGHT UNDER THE COPYRIGHT, DESIGNS AND PATENTS ACT, 1988, AS AUTHOR AND DESIGNER OF THIS WORK.

      THE QUOTATION FROM EUROTRASH IS FROM IRVINE WELSH’S THE ACID HOUSE PUBLISHED BY JOHNATHAN CAPE LTD, 1994.

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      ISBN 9781782114321

      BRITISH LIBRARY CATALOGUING-IN-PUBLICATION DATA A CATALOGUE RECORD FOR THIS BOOK IS AVAILABLE UPON REQUEST FROM THAT LIBRARY.

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      TO

      SCOTT

      PEARSON

      WITH

      THANKS

      FOR ALL

      HIS HELP

      WITH

      THIS AND

      MANY

      OTHER

      BOOKS

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      CONTENTS

0 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
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      INTRODUCTION

      THE FIRST PAMPHLET with this name was written quickly for the British general election of 1992. It was my first polemical work and I was pleased with it; pleased also that reviewers treated it kindly.

      With a view to reprinting


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