Table of Contents

Acknowledgements; List of illustrations; Chapter 1 Scotland and the places of memory; SECTION 1 ENCOUNTERING MODERNITY: Chapter 2 Before and after modernity: the legacy of Adam Ferguson; Chapter 3 The eyes of modernity: John Grierson's sociology; SECTION II PLACING IDENTITIES: Chapter 4 Among the wee Nazareths: myths of moral community; Chapter 5 Retrieving 'that invisible leeway': landscapes, cultures, belonging; SECTION III LOCAL VISIONS: Chapter 6 A pattern of islands: photographs in the cultural account; Chapter 7 Remembering 'The Forgotten Gorbals'; Chapter 8 Finding ways home; Index

About the Author

Andrew Blaikie is Professor of Historical Sociology at the University of Aberdeen. He is author of Illegitimacy, Sex and Society: Northeast Scotland, 1750-1900 (1994) and Ageing and Popular Culture (1999).

Reviews

A tour de force by Andrew Blaikie, who tells us that the Scots didn't invent the modern world; we only imagined it. And in so doing, we have become creatures of those images. -- David McCrone, Edinburgh University A tour de force by Andrew Blaikie, who tells us that the Scots didn't invent the modern world; we only imagined it. And in so doing, we have become creatures of those images.