Synopses & Reviews
"Comprehensive, thoroughly indexed, and full of learning."The Times Educational Supplement.
Description
Includes bibliographical references (p. 381-382) and index.
Table of Contents
Introduction to the Second Edition
Acknowledgments
A Note on Scottish Currency
1. The Land and Its People
2. The Union of the Four Peoples
3. The House of Canmore
4. Wars of Independence 1286-1371
5. The Crown and the Barons 1371-1488
6. The Renaissance and the New Monarchy
7. The Reformation
8. The Counter-Reformation and the Claim to the English Crown
9. The Union of the Crowns 1587-1603
10. The Crown and the Kirk 1603-25
11. The Presbyterian Revolution: Charles I 1625-49
12. Cromwell
13. The Restored Monarchy
14. The Revolution Settlement and the Union of Parliaments (1707)
15. The Union in Operation: The Jacobites
16. The Eighteenth-Century Development
17. Unrest and Reform
18. Victorian Scotland
19. Modern Scotland
Suggestions for Further Reading
Index
List of Maps:
1. Scotland: The Land and Its People
2. The Anglo-Norman Penetration, the Frontier and the Lordship of the Isles
3. The Wars of Independence
4. Scotland During the Civil Wars
5. The Jacobite Rebellions