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Scotland: A History
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by Jenny Wormald
Sales Rank: 320704
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List Price: $35.00
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Features
Cover Type: Hard Cover with 402 pages
Published by: Oxford University Press, USA October 28, 2005
Written in: English
ISBN 10 Number: 0198206151
ISBN 13 Number: 978-0198206156
Book Dimensions:
9.2 x 6.2 x 1.1 inches
Weighs: 1.9 pounds
Product Review
`This book is not the easiest introduction to Scottish history because it is closely argued, but it is probably the most challenging and stimulating.' Paul Henderson Scott, Sunday Herald
Product Description
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 accurate and sophisticated portrait of Scotland through the ages. The
contributors take us from medieval Scotland, to the crisis created by Mary Queen of Scots and the trauma of Reformation, to the reign of James VI and the Union of the Crowns (1603). They discuss the seventeenth century, when a stern Calvinist Kirk launched an unprecedented attack on music, dancing,
drama, and drinking, and the remarkable transformation of enlightenment Scotland, when the small nation became a great force in European literature, with such eminent figures as David Hume, Adam Smith, Robert Burns, and James Boswell. We discover that in the nineteenth century the Scottish economy,
by some criteria, outpaced the rest of Britain, and its preeminence in heavy engineering was unquestioned. And we follow Scotland through the turbulent twentieth century, enduring two world wars and a depression, before ending on a high note, with Scotland enjoying its first parliament in three
hundred years.
What emerges here is a portrait of a confident people who slowly built an important place for themselves in the wider world--the story of a remarkably positive, assured, and successful kingdom.
Reader Reviews
Having been published very recently, this book with many contributors synthesizes the latest scholarship. I have just finished the second chapter, AD 1100-1300. This period of Scotland becoming a nation seems to pivot on the reign of David I (1124-53), although later monarchs' of Scots achievements are detailed too, such as the bringing of the Western Isles into the realm. It is worthwhile reading, but occasionally the author's grammar or an obscure reference is confusing. I was most interested in the first chapter, written by University of Glasgow's Katherine Forsyth. "Origins: Scotland to 1100" is the period I have been reading about the most over several years. Obviously 39 pages cannot contain exceptional detail (compared to an entire book on the subject, such as Smyth's 'Warlords and Holy Men: Scotland AD 80-1000', which, by the way, also gives great insight into the eleventh century, besides the whole first millenium,) but I found it to be a suitable introduction to this period for such as a single-volume of Scottish history might offer. The author's speciality in epigraphy allows for some intriguing insights, while not hindering a thorough overall impression of the period.
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