Scotland 2014 and beyond : key contexts of innocence and maturity / Klaus Peter Müller -- Scotland as part of the UK : international law and medieval history / David Broun -- The 'Scotch accent of mind' : historicising the referendum / Catriona Macdonald -- The British people : description or denial / Murray Pittock -- 'Project fear' in longitudinal context / Neil Blain -- The media and the referendum : uncharted waters, perilous seas / David Hutchison -- Existential and utilitarian nationalism in Scotland / Peter Jones -- Scotland, global gateway nation : cinematic imaginings of contemporary Scotland / David Martin-Jones -- Modern narratives : Scottish self-perceptions at the time of devolution / Miriam Schröder -- The emergent Scottish constitutional tradition : Scottish, nordic and global influences / W. Elliot Bulmer -- The independence referendum, the contested constitution, and the authorship of constitutional change / Aileen McHarg -- Double vision / Ian Campbel -- The failure of historicism in Scottish literary studies : a case study involving the Burns movement and the chair of Scottish history and literature at the University of Glasgow / Gerard Carruthers -- The discovery of Scotland : Walter Scott and world literature in the age of union / Ian Duncan -- Listening to the writers talk : coming of age in Scotland 1922-2012 / Margery Palmer McCulloch -- Postcolonial perspectives on the Scottish independence debate / Kirsten Sandrock -- Beyond the referendum : a new deal for local democracy in Scotland / Eberhard Bort -- Reflections on nation and narration from the perspective of a 'new Scot' in Scotland / Bashabi Fraser -- Why I am voting yes / Deirdre Forsyth -- Scotland : new directions in welfare / Gerry Mooney & Gill Scott -- Devolution max, asymmetrical federalism, and the English question : Scotland as catalyst for constitutional change in Britain / Roland Sturm.