Understanding Scotland

<p><em>Understanding Scotland</em> has been recognised since publication as the key text on the sociology of Scotland. This wholly revised edition provides the first sustained study of post-devolution Scottish society. It contains new material on:<br>* the establishment of the Scottish parliament in 1999<br>* social and political data from the 1997 general elections<br>* the new cultural iconography of Scotland<br>* Scotland as a European society.<br>For anyone wishing to understand Scottish society in particular or the general issues involved in nation building McCrone's clear-headed coherently argued account of the main issues will be essential reading.</p>