Debate on understanding national identity by David McCrone and Frank Bechhofer

No book in recent memory has provided such a comprehensive overview of the multiple contents and variable contexts of national identity than David McCrone and Frank Bechhofer's Understanding National Identity (2015).The book's focus is on Scottish, English, and British national identities, but the diverse methods it employs and the theoretical insights it generates resonate far beyond these narrower empirical confines.The book is the culmination of decades of theoretically driven and empirically grounded collaborative research on national identity.Their commitment to and investment in national identity research can be felt in the breadth and depth of the analysis presented here.