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Scotland : A History

ISBN: 9780198206156 | 0198206151
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Pub. Date: 12/1/2005

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SummaryTable of ContentsAuthor Biography
Scottish history has long been dominated by the romantic tales of Robert the Bruce, William Wallace, Mary Queen of Scots, and Bonnie Prince Charlie. But the explosion of serious historical research in the last half-century has fueled a keen desire for a better-informed and more satisfying understanding of the Scottish past. This attractively designed book--boasting scores of illustrations, include eight color plates--brings together the leading authorities on Scottish history, who range from Roman times until the present day, offering a more ac... MORE
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List of Colour Plates
vii
List of Maps
ix
List of Contributors
x
Introductionxv
Origins: Scotland to 1100
1(38)
Katherine Forsyth
The Emergence of a Nation-State, 1100--1300
39(38)
Keith Stringer
Survival and Revival: Late Medieval Scotland
77(30)
Michael Brown
Steve Boardman
Renaissance and Reformation: The Sixteenth Century
107(36)
Roger Mason
Confidence and Perplexity: The Seventeenth Century
143(34)
Jenny Wormald
Scotland Transformed: The Eighteenth Century
177(32)
Richard B. Sher
Workshop of Empire: The Nineteenth Century
209(32)
I. G. C. Hutchison
The Turbulent Century: Scotland since 1900
241(31)
Richard Finlay
The Scottish Diaspora
272(32)
David Armitage
Scotland's Stories
304(31)
Sally Mapstone
Further Reading335(16)
Chronology351(16)
Illustration Sources367(2)
Index369

Jenny Wormald is currently Fellow and Tutor in Modern History at St Hilda's College, Oxford. She has previously been Lecturer in Scottish History at the University of Glasgow, British Academy Reader in the Humanities, and a Visiting Professor at Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, and the University of the South, Sewanee, Tennessee.

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