A History of Scotland

ISBN-13: 9780333671481 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017 / 206 str.

Allan I. MacInnes; Jeremy Black

Opis

This illuminating and insightful guide offers a comprehensive overview of Scottish history, from the kingdom's genesis in the ninth century to the independence debates of the present day.

Spis treści

Shaping a Mongrel Nation, 832-1214.- Wars of Independence, 1214-1424.- Renaissance and Reformation, 1424-1625.- Covenanters and Jacobites, 1625-1753.- Enlightenment and Enterprise, 1753-1884.- Unionist, Civic Patriots and Nationalists, 1884-1999.- 1999-2018: The Road to Independence?.- Select Bibliography.- Index

O autorze

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.