Scotland and the First World War by Gill Plain, Fran Brearton... - 9781611487787

Scotland and the First World WarMyth, Memory, and the Legacy of Bannockburn\nAuthor(s): Gill Plain, Fran Brearton, Michael Brown, Caroline McCracken-Flesher, Robert Crawford, Stefan Goebel, David Goldie, Margaret R. Higonnet, Catriona M.M. MacDonald, Peter Mackay\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Associated University Presses, United States\nImprint: Bucknell University Press,U.S.\nISBN-13: 9781611487787, 978-1611487787\nSynopsis\nWhat did war look like in the cultural imagination of 1914? Why did men in Scotland sign up to fight in unprecedented numbers? What were the martial myths shaping Scottish identity from the aftermath of Bannockburn to the close of the nineteenth century, and what did the Scottish soldiers of the First World War think they were fighting for? Scotland and the First World War: Myth, Memory and the Legacy of Bannockburn is a collection of new interdisciplinary essays interrogating the trans-historical myths of nation, belonging and martial identity that shaped Sc.