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Von der Wahrheit zur Wahrscheinlichkeit
De Gruyter 2008; US$ 154.00In the 18th century, the science of man opened up the conceptual framework for re-interpreting the origins and development of the human species itself. It was the ever more popular reports of 'savages' which had led to a questioning of the biblical account of Creation. Borrowing from scientific methods, the Scottish Enlightenment developed a model... more...
The King's Henchman
Gibson Square 2012; US$ 21.86Charles II’s ascent to the throne came at a time of national turbulence: his father had been beheaded, and rival Cromwell threatened his right to rein. England was now a puritanical island, isolated in a sea of Catholic countries. But Henry Jermyn, 1st Earl of St. Albans, was there to keep the royal family together. The King’s Henchman... more...
The Scots and the Union
Edinburgh University Press 2006; US$ 51.72This book traces the background to the Treaty of Union of 1707, explains why it happened and assesses its impact on Scottish society, including the bitter struggle with the Jacobites for acceptance of the union in the two decades that followed its inauguration. The book offers a radical new interpretation of the causes of union. The idea that the... more...
The Scottish Parliament Under Charles II, 1660-1685
Edinburgh University Press 2007; US$ 99.50On 14 May 1660, Charles II, restored to the throne of his father, was proclaimed king of Great Britain and Ireland at the market-cross of Edinburgh, bringing to an end over twenty years of internal upheaval. At the subsequent meeting of the Scottish parliament in January 1661, the ascendant royalist administration sought to abolish all constitutional... more...
An Uncounselled King
Cambridge University Press 1990; US$ 44.00A new perspective on the Scottish troubles in the crisis years of 163741 more...
Culloden Tales
Mainstream Publishing 2011; US$ 13.33Culloden was the last battle on British soil. It marked the end of clan culture and was the harbinger of the Highland Clearances. It ensured the inevitability of the American Revolution and increased the outpouring of Scots across the globe. It is the only battle that British Army regiments are not permitted to include in their battle honours; the... more...
Downfall
Birlinn 2011; US$ 12.67From prison cell to the political limelight, and back again, there is no doubt that Tommy Sheridan ? tanned, handsome and armed with a soundbite for every occasion ? was one of the most colourful figures in the drab, dusty world of party politics. Yet behind the charismatic exterior of the man who first came to public notice during the anti-Poll Tax... more...
The Jacobite Movement in Scotland and in Exile, 1746-1759
Palgrave Macmillan 2003; US$ 145.00The argument presented in this book arose from an extension to the question whether the suppression of the Jacobite Rising of 1745-46, as represented by a long-standing historiographical consensus, spelled the end of Jacobite hopes, and British fears, of another restoration attempt. more...
Scottish Presbyterians and the Act of Union 1707
Edinburgh University Press 2007; US$ 99.50Set against the background of post-revolution Scottish ecclesiastical politics, this book addresses the hitherto largely neglected religious dimension to the debates on Anglo-Scottish Union. Focusing predominantly on the period between April 1706 and January 1707, the book examines the attitudes and reactions of Presbyterians to the treaty and challenges... more...
Jacobite Stories
Neil Wilson Publishing 2011; US$ 14.57For too long, this period of Scottish history has been romanticised with the exploits of Bonnie Prince Charlie to the fore. Dane Love's personal interest in his ancestors has made him research the lives of ordinary men and women who lived, fought and died during this period and the result is a highly readable account of the Jacobite era. All the main... more...









