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Cambridge University Press 978-1-108-83535-0 — the Case for Scottish Independence Ben Jackson Index More Information Cambridge University Press 978-1-108-83535-0 — The Case for Scottish Independence Ben Jackson Index More Information Index Anderson, John, 44 Calgacus,97–8 Anderson, Perry, 63–4, 67–8, 71, 168 Campaign for a Scottish Assembly, 139 Anderson, Robert, 44, 47 Constitutional Steering Committee, Anderson–Nairn thesis, 63–8, 70, 163 139–40 Ascherson, Neal, 7, 84–5, 95, 101, 105, Catalonia, 158 116, 135, 137, 158, 161, 163, 165, 170 Cencrastus, 10, 49 Attlee, Clement, 115 Charter 88, 83–5, 141, 163 Chesterton, G. K., 21 Bank of England, 159, 174–5 Church of Scotland, 39–40, 59, 134, Barnett, Anthony, 84 140, 142 Barrow, Geoffrey, 133 City of London, 175 Robert the Bruce and the Community of the Claim of Right (1689), 134–5, 140, 142, 144 Realm in Scotland (1965), 133 Claim of Right (1842), 140, 142 Basque Country, 73 Claim of Right (1988), 35, 140–1, 143, 155 Belloc, Hilaire, 21 Claim of Right (1989), 141–4 Benn, Tony, 120 Common Sense, 51, 59 Bevan, Aneurin, 113 common-sense philosophy, 42–3, 51–2 Beveridge, Craig, 49–52, 54–9, 77, 88, 101 Communist Party of Great Britain, 57 Black, Charles Stewart, 33 community of the realm of Scotland, Blackburn, Robin, 64 133–4, 139 Blair, Tony, 120 Conservative government (1951–64), 34 Brand, Jack, 106 (1979–92), 5, 46, 82, 88, 114, 138, British constitution, Scottish nationalist 163–4, 169–72; see also Thatcherism; critique of, 84–5, 137–8, 140–1 Thatcher, Margaret federalism as unlikely remedy, 87, 155, 157 Conservative–Liberal Democrat British Empire/imperialism, 5, 18, 21, 27, government (2010–15), 6, 125, 172–3 49, 55, 59–62, 66, 69, 72, 76, 78–82, Conservative Party, 2, 34, 56, 60, 79, 119 88–9, 108, 149, 163, 168 constitution of an independent Scotland, relationship to an independent Scotland, 34, 144, 146, 155 27–8, 146–7 Cooper, T. M. (Lord Cooper of Culross), British general elections 32, 37, 131–42, 144; see also 1974 (October), 4, 94 MacCormick v. Lord Advocate (1953) 1979, 107 corporate taxation in an independent 1987, 139 Scotland, 119, 121–2, 175 1992, 87, 118–19 Covenanters, 134, 170 Brown, Gordon, 98–9, 101 Craig, Cairns, 56–8 The Red Paper on Scotland (1975), 98–100 cultural case for Scottish independence, 19, Buchanan, George, 30, 134–5, 139, 144 35–60, 69, 87–8, 108, 140; see also Burke, Edmund, 162 Scottish culture Burnet, John, 43 Cunningham, Roseanna, 106 Burnett, Ray, 96–100 Currie, Andrew, 106–8 206 © in this web service Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-1-108-83535-0 — The Case for Scottish Independence Ben Jackson Index More Information Index 207 Dalyell, Tam, 141 Fitzgerald, Garret, 128, 158 Davidson, Neil, 75 Fletcher, Andrew, 145 Davie, George, 37, 39–52, 54–6, 59, 75, Frank, André Gunder, 79 80, 170 Fyfe, Maria, 101 The Crisis of the Democratic Intellect (1986), 44–5, 52 Gellner, Ernest, 71, 75, 86 The Democratic Intellect (1961), 37, gender inequality and Scottish nationalism, 39–43, 46–7, 51, 56 10–11, 44, 142, 163 The Scotch Metaphysics (2001), 37 Gibbs, Ewan, 6, 168 Davies, Ron, 137 Gibson, Tom, 25 Davis, Madeleine, 96 Gierke, Otto von, 146 decentralisation and Scottish nationalism, Gilmore, Sheila, 101 20–6, 29, 70, 91–2, 94, 102–5, Glasgow Govan by-election (1973), 11 156, 169 (1988), 143 Declaration of Arbroath (1320), 30, 132–6, global financial crisis (2007–8), 174, 179 139, 142, 144 globalisation, 117, 122–3, 173 deindustrialisation, 4, 56, 82, 109, 113–14, Gramsci, Antonio, 11, 64–5, 79, 96–8, 117, 164, 172, 175 110, 168 democratic case for Scottish independence, Grassic Gibbon, Lewis, 18, 92, 161 84–7, 162–3, 166, 172; see also Sunset Song (1932), 92 sovereignty Gray, Alasdair, 1, 8 Devine, Tom, 90 Green Party, 141 devolution, 86–7, 119–20, 136–7, 144, 149, Green, T. H., 46 154, 157, 169, 176 Grieve, Robert, 139 Dewar Gibb, Andrew, 31, 37 Gunn, Neil, 18 Dewar, Donald, 137 Gunn, Richard, 51 Disruption of 1843, 43 Douglas, Major Clifford, 24–5 Habermas, Jürgen, 51–2 Drucker, Peter, 23 Hall, Stuart, 58, 63 Dudley Edwards, Owen, 106 Hames, Scott, 8–10, 139 Dunion, Kevin, 112 Hamilton by-election (1967), 4, 41, 68, 168 Hanham, H. J., 22 economic case for Scottish independence, Hardie, Keir, 108, 113, 169 19–20, 23–5, 109–10, 116, 163–4, 166, Harvie, Christopher, 11–12 171–3 Hassan, Gerry, 6–8 Edinburgh Review, 49, 59 Hauriou, Maurice, 146 Elliot, Walter, 39 Hauser, Richard, 93 Engels, Friedrich, 97 The Fraternal Society (1962), 93 European Central Bank, 174 Hayek, Friedrich, 33 European Economic Community/European The Road to Serfdom,33 Community/European Union (EEC/ Hearn, Jonathan, 7–8 EC/EU), 13, 74–5, 88, 100, 128, 145, Heath, Edward, 93 147–60, 173–4 Hechter, Michael, 78–80 European single market and Scottish Internal Colonialism (1975), 79–80 nationalism, 118, 129, 150–3 Hegel, G. W. F., 52 Ewing, Winifred (‘Winnie’), 4, 10, 41, Henderson, Hamish, 64, 97 68–70, 136, 148–9, 161 Highland Clearances, 171 Hobsbawm, Eric, 58 Fairlie, Jim, 111 Hoggart, Richard, 63 Fanon, Frantz, 49, 55, 70, 78, 88 Uses of Literacy (1957), 63 feminism and Scottish nationalism: Holloway, John, 51 see gender inequality and Scottish Hroch, Miroslav, 71 nationalism Hume, David, 53–4, 56 Finlay, Richard, 27, 147 Hutcheson, Frances, 53 © in this web service Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-1-108-83535-0 — The Case for Scottish Independence Ben Jackson Index More Information 208 Index immigration and Scottish nationalism, MacDiarmid, Hugh, 17–18, 24, 26, 37, 26–7, 93–4, 176 43, 71 industrial democracy, 93, 102–4, 110 MacDonald, Margo, 11, 102, 106, 161 internal colonialism, 79–81 Macdonald, Murdo, 51, 59–60 International Marxist Group (IMG), McGrath, John, 98–100, 171 76–7 The Cheviot, the Stag and the Black, Black Ireland, 79, 98, 121–2, 124–5, 128, 158 Oil (1973), 98, 100, 171 Irish immigration to Scotland, 26–7 McIlvanney, William, 8, 114–15, 161–2, 166–75 Jacobites, 170 MacIntyre, Alasdair, 52–9, 63 After Virtue (1981), 53 Keating, Michael, 4 Whose Justice? Which Rationality? (1988), Kemp Smith, Norman, 44 53–4 Kennedy, Gavin, 102, 105–6 McIntyre, Robert, 24, 26, 28, 31, 33–4, The Radical Approach (1976), 102–4 149, 155 Kenny, Meryl, 163 MacKenzie, Agnes Mure, 29, 129 Kenny, Michael, 86 Maclean, John, 97 Kerevan, George, 76, 101, 119–21, 123, McLean, Sorley, 97 161–6 MacLeod, Dennis, 122–3 Kidd, Colin, 12, 135, 170 Grasping the Thistle (2008), 122–3 MacNeill, Duncan, 29–31, 129 Labour government (1945–51), 23, 25, 115 McShane, Harry, 97 (1997–2010), 119, 125 Marwick, William, 30 Labour Party, 5, 12, 20, 56, 60, 63, 98, 101, Marx, Karl, 25, 52, 75 106, 108–10, 117, 120, 124–5, 141, Maxton, James, 108 144, 165, 169, 172, 176 Maxwell, Stephen, 34, 37, 45, 47–9, 59, 68, New Left/Scottish nationalist critique of 71, 82–3, 103–4, 111, 125, 138, ‘labourism’,66–7, 107, 109, 120 161, 170 Scottish nationalism as custodian of ’79 Group, contribution to, 105–11 Labour tradition, 111–13, 115, 169 Arguing for Independence (2012), 126, Laffer Curve, the, 121 162–6 Lamont, Archie, 20 The Case for Left-Wing Nationalism Levy, Roger, 144 (1981), 108–10 Liberal Democrats, 60, 141, 143 criticism of SNP’s policy on Europe, 153 Liberal Party, 21, 34 Menuhin, Hephzibah, 93 libertarianism and Scottish nationalism, The Fraternal Society (1962), 93 33–4, 38, 165 Miliband, Ralph, 66 Lindsay, Isobel, 102–5, 111, 139, 143, 153, Parliamentary Socialism (1961), 66 155, 161 Mill, John Stuart, 46 Livingstone, Ken, 120 monetary policy in an independent Lygate, Matt, 61 Scotland, 117–19, 124, 126, 145, 159, 174 McAllion, John, 101 McAlpine, Tom, 93 Nairn, Tom, 7, 48, 50, 55, 59, 61–4, 66–78, MacAskill, Kenny, 106, 122, 124 80–2, 88, 96–7, 99, 101, 104–7, 123, Building a Nation (2004), 122 158, 161, 163–4, 168, 170 MacCormick v. Lord Advocate (1953), 32, The Break-Up of Britain (1977), 68, 76, 130–2, 136; see also Cooper, T. M. 82, 84 (Lord Cooper of Culross) Enchanted Glass (1988), 84–5 MacCormick, John, 17–18, 20, 25, 27–8, National Collective, 59 32, 37, 129–31 National Party of Scotland (NPS), 16, 28, MacCormick, Neil, 7, 37, 87, 136, 138, 71, 147 140, 146, 154–9, 161, 177 National, The,1 McCreadie, Robert, 143 nationalism, civic and ethnic, 3, 73–4 McCrone, David, 7, 80 nationalism, definition of, 12 © in this web service Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-1-108-83535-0 — The Case for Scottish Independence Ben Jackson Index More Information Index 209 nationalism, ethnosymbolic theory of and Saltire Society, 92 Scotland, 86 Scothorne, Rory, 6, 10, 168 nationalism, modernist theory of and Scots law, 38–40, 54, 59 Scotland, 71–2, 75–6 Scots National League (SNL), 16, 28 Neil, Alex, 101 Scotsman, 69, 84, 95, 120 neoliberalism, 2, 121–3, 165 Scott, Paul Henderson, 140 New Left Review,63–4, 66, 68, 83–4 Scott, Walter, 72, 170 New Left, the, 45, 52, 57–8, 63–4, 85, Scottish Constitutional Convention, 5, 94–6, 101–2, 110, 112, 168–9 139–44 ‘no mandate’ argument for Scottish Scottish culture, 8–9, 17, 165; see also independence, 138, 140, 143–4 cultural case for Scottish independence North Sea oil, 5, 72, 116–17, 126, 171 Scottish education system, 40–8, 54, Northern Ireland, 77, 96 56–7, 59 Scottish Enlightenment, 2, 45, 53, 75, Østergaard Nielsen, Jimmi, 62, 88 80–1, 170 Scottish Government, 144, 166–75 Paterson, Lindsay, 57, 101, 138 Scotland’s Future (2014), 166 personalism, 22–3 Scottish International, 10, 51, 96 Petrie, Malcolm, 33 Scottish Labour Party (SLP) (1976–81), Pittock, Murray, 110 49, 77, 83–4, 100–1, 105–6, 112, post-sovereignty, 87, 145–7, 151, 155–60, 119, 150 173–4 Scottish
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