Scotland : a history / edited by Jenny Wormald.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Wormald, Jenny.

Series:

Oxford Illustrated History

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Scotland--History.

Scotland.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (323 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2005.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Taking in events as diverse as the Scottish assertion of independence at the end of the thirteenth century, the Union of the Crowns, and devolution, the contributors trace Scottish history from pre-1100 to the twentieth century, and show that Scotland was a remarkably successful, thriving, and important kingdom of international renown. - ;Scotland has long had a romantic appeal which has tended to be focused on a few over-dramatized personalities or events, notably Mary Queen of Scots, Bonnie Prince Charlie, the Highland Clearances-the failures and the sad - though more positively, William Wal

Contents:

Origins: Scotland to 1100 / Katherine Forsyth.

The emergence of a nation state, 1100-1300 / Keith Stringer.

Survival and revival: late Medieval Scotland / Michael Brown and Steve Boardman.

Renaissance and Reformation: the sixteenth century / Roger Mason.

Confidence and perplexity: the seventeenth century / Jenny Wormald.

Scotland transformed: the eighteenth century / Richard B. Sher.

Workshop of empire: the nineteenth century / I.G.C. Hutchison.

The turbulent century: Scotland since 1900 / Richard Finlay.

The Scottish Diaspora / David Armitage.

Scotland's stories / Sally Mapstone.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [335]-350) and index.

Description based on metadata supplied by the publisher and other sources.

ISBN:

0-19-162243-5

1-280-75873-2

0-19-151868-9

1-4294-2128-2

OCLC:

476259651