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Restoration Scotland, 1660-1690by Clare Jackson
Boydell & Brewer 2003; US$ 95.00The years following the Restoration of the Stuart monarchs to the throne are currently the subject of considerable scholarly enquiry regarding events in England, but this is the first modern study of political and religious attitudes in Scotland in the decades after the Restoration of Charles II in 1660. more...
The Politics of Religion in the Age of Mary, Queen of Scotsby Jane E. A. Dawson; Anthony Fletcher; John Guy; John Morrill
Cambridge University Press 2002; US$ 45.00This book explains how the political crises of the mid-sixteenth century moulded the future political shape of the British Isles. Its central figure is the fifth earl of Argyll, the brother-in-law of Mary, Queen of Scots, and the major force throughout the Scottish Highlands and Lowlands. more...
Mary Queen Of Scotsby Jayne Lewis
Routledge 1998; US$ 37.95This examines the enigma of Mary Queen of Scots by exploring the history of her representation in Britain from the late Tudor period to the end of the first World War. more...
The Jacobite Movement in Scotland and in Exile, 1746-1759by Doron Zimmermann
Palgrave Macmillan Ltd. 2003; US$ 130.00The principal conclusion of this book is that the Jacobite Movement persisted as a viable threat to the British state, and was perceived as such by its opponents to 1759. more...
Neolithic Scotlandby Gordon Noble
Edinburgh University Press 2006; US$ 119.40Offers an account of the Neolithic period in Scotland from its early traces around 4000 BC to the transformation of Neolithic society in the Early Bronze Age. This work interprets Scottish material in the context of debates and issues in European archaeology, and outlines the chronology of the Neolithic in Europe. more...
Mary Queen of Scotsby Reitha Warnicke
Taylor & Francis 2006; US$ 27.95A biography of one of the most intriguing figures of early modern European history, Retha Warnicke, widely regarded as a leading historian on Tudor queenship. It offers a fresh interpretation of the life of this fascinating Tudor Queen. more...
The Scots and the Unionby Christopher A. Whatley
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 Scots were ?bought and sold for English gold? is largely rejected. Instead, emphasis is placed upon the international, dynastic and religious contexts in which the union was negotiated. The aggressive France of Louis XIV, the imagined threat posed by the church of Rome, and the real one represented by the Stuart pretender, loomed large in the consciousnesses of Scots who sought union. The principles... more...
From Pictland to Alba 789-1070by Alex Woolf
Edinburgh University Press 2007; US$ 119.40In the 780s northern Britain was dominated by two great kingdoms; Pictavia, centred in north-eastern Scotland and Northumbria which straddled the modern Anglo-Scottish border. Within a hundred years both of these kingdoms had been thrown into chaos by the onslaught of the Vikings and within two hundred years they had become distant memories. This book charts the transformation of the political landscape of northern Britain between the eighth and the eleventh centuries. Central to this narrative is the mysterious disappearance of the Picts and their language and the sudden rise to prominence of the Gaelic-speaking Scots who would replace them as the rulers of the North. From Pictland to Alba uses fragmentary sources which survive from this darkest... more...
Scotland Re-formed, 1488-1587by Jane Dawson
Edinburgh University Press 2007; US$ 119.40From the death of James III to the execution of Mary, Queen of Scots, Jane Dawson tells story of Scotland from the perspective of its regions and of individual Scots, as well as incorporating the view from the royal court. Scotland Re-formed shows how the country was re-formed as the relationship between church and crown changed, with these two institutions converging, merging and diverging, thereby permanently altering the nature of Scottish governance. Society was also transformed, especially by the feuars, new landholders who became the backbone of rural Scotland. The Reformation Crisis of 1559-60 brought the establishment of a Protestant Kirk, an institution influencing the lives of Scots for many centuries, and a diplomatic revolution... more...
Scottish Independence and the Idea of Britainby Dauvit Broun
Edinburgh University Press 2007; US$ 119.40When did Scots first think of Scotland as an independent kingdom? What did they think was Scotlands place in Britain before the age of Wallace and Bruce? The answers argued in this book offer a fresh perspective on the question of Scotlands relationship with Britain. It challenges the standard concept of the Scots as an ancient nation whose British identity only emerged in the early modern era, but also provides new evidence that the idea of Scotland as an independent kingdom was older than the age of Wallace and Bruce. This leads to radical reassessments of a range of fundamental issues: the fate of Pictish identity and the origins of Alba, the status of Scottish kingship vis-à-vis England, the papacys recognition of... more...