The invention of Scotland myth and history / [electronic resource] :
Hugh Trevor-Roper.
- New Haven [Conn.] : Yale University Press, c2008.
- xxi, 282 p.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [237]-267) and index.
The political myth. Scotia's rise to glory? -- George Buchanan -- Buchanan's nemesis -- The literary myth. The search for a Celtic Homer -- James Macpherson and Fingal -- The controversy over Ossian -- The sartorial myth. The coming of the kilt -- The tartan.
Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2011. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.
National characteristics, Scottish--Historiography.