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THE BREAK-UP OF BRITAIN? SCOTLAND AND THE END OF EMPIREThe Prothero Lecture

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 November 2006

Abstract

The essay is concerned with the retreat from the British empire and specifically with the Scottish aspects of that process. It is now acknowledged that the Scottish role in the imperial project was central. Hence there is a special interest in tracing the response to the end of empire north of the border. Several historians and political scientists have argued that imperial decline was likely to destroy one of the key foundations of the Anglo-Scottish Union. This essay challenges these assumptions by demonstrating that imperial decline failed to produce much political concern in Scotland. The possible reasons for this are considered.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Royal Historical Society2006

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