This illuminating and insightful guide offers a comprehensive overview of Scottish history, from the kingdoms genesis in the ninth century to the independence debates of the present day. Considering both internal dynamics and international horizons, Allan Macinnes asserts Scotlands heritage as significant and compelling in its own right, rather than reducing it to an offshoot of Englands past.
Rigorous and wide-ranging, this textbook is an essential companion for undergraduate and postgraduate students of History. Its lively and accessible style makes it suitable for anyone with an interest in Scotlands national development.
Recenzijos
To take on the long history of the Scottish nation in a single volume is a prodigious challenge, and Allan Macinnes has risen to the task magnificently. This is a lucid, well-balanced account, full of insight, analysis and no little wit. * Graeme Morton, University of Dundee, UK * This book provides a wide-ranging and readable survey of Scottish history from the medieval era to the present. With clear prose and entertaining anecdotes, Macinnes introduces his readers to the most important personalities, events, and debates in Scotlands past. * Michelle D. Brock, Washington and Lee University, USA *
Daugiau informacijos
This textbook provides a concise but comprehensive overview of the history of Scotland from the ninth century to the present day, including discussion of the Protestant Reformation, civil wars, international political unions and the modern day impact of Brexit on independence debates.
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1 Shaping a Mongrel Nation, 832-1214 |
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Scandinavians, Vikings and Norse-Gaels |
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The Built Environment of Kingship |
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2 Wars of Independence, 1214-1424 |
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The Wars of Wallace and Bruce |
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3 Renaissance and Reformation, 1424-1625 |
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Reformation and Deformation |
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4 Covenanters and Jacobites, 1625-1753 |
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Towards a Covenanting Movement |
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Restoration and Rebellion |
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5 Enlightenment and Enterprise, 1753-1884 |
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Transforming Agriculture and Industry |
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6 Unionists, Civic Patriots and Nationalists, 1884-1999 |
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147 | (6) |
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153 | (4) |
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157 | (5) |
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162 | (7) |
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7 1999-2018: The Road to Independence? |
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| Select Bibliography |
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| Appendix: Scottish Kindreds |
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Allan I. Macinnes is Emeritus Professor History at Strathclyde, having formerly taught there and at Glasgow and Aberdeen. He has published extensively on British state formation in the seventeenth century, on Jacobitism, Enlightenment and Empire in the eighteenth century and on Highland clans and clearances from the thirteenth to nineteenth centuries. He has written monographs on Charles I and the Emergence of the Covenanting Movement, 1625-41; on Clanship, Commerce and the House of Stewart, 1603-1788; on The British Revolution, 1629-61; on Union and Empire: the making of the United Kingdom in 1707; an on The British Confederate: Archibald Campbell, 1609-61.
