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  • Adventure Guide to Scotlandby Martin Li

    Hunter Publishing 2005; US$ 15.00

    The definitive guide to Scotland, a land of rolling hills, craggy cliffs and fascinating history. Read about the legends, the clans, the castles and romantic hotels, the highland games and the whisky. The author is a long-time resident of Scotland and he takes us from Edinburgh to Glasgow, Loch Lomond, the Highlands and the Outer Isles. Fascinating details on the Loch Ness monster, Macbeth's castle, Mary Queen of Scots, the Viking legacy, Burns Night festival and the royal castles. more...

  • Scotlandby Rab Houston

    OUP Oxford 2008; US$ 8.95

    This Very Short Introduction explores the key themes from more than 1,000 years of Scotland's fascinating history. Covering everything from the Jacobites to devolution to the modern economy, this concise account presents a fully-integrated picture of what Scottish society, culture, politics and religion look like, and why. - ;Since Devolution in 1999 Scotland has become a focus of intense interest both within Britain and throughout the wider world. In this Very Short Introduction, Rab Houston explores how an independent Scottish nation emerged in the Middle Ages, how it was irrevocably altered by Reformation, links with England and economic change, and how Scotland influenced the development of the modern world. Examining politics, law,... more...

  • The Occult Laboratoryby Michael Hunter

    Boydell & Brewer 2001; US$ 63.75

    The uncanny ability of certain individuals to foresee future events had long been regarded as a characteristic of the Scottish Highlands, but in the late seventeenth century interest in the phenomenon came to a head, stimulated by English scientific and philosophical curiosity about magic, particularly second sight. The natural philosopher Robert Boyle and other English savants investigated these Highland beliefs; they found the region a kind of laboratory, strange yet accessible, where data about unusual beliefs could be collected and theories tested. more...

  • History of Scotlandby Rosalind Mitchison

    Routledge 2002; US$ 35.95

    Covering a staggering period from the Pictish peoples and their symbol stones to modern devolution, Mitchison's absorbing narrative remains the classic introduction to Scottish history. more...

  • Thistle Soupby Peter Kerr

    Summersdale Publishers Ltd. 2004; US$ 9.99

    This is an idiosyncratic story of Scottish farming life. It tells of episodes with drunken ghosts, bullocks in the bedrooms, obscure customs and country superstitions. more...

  • Scottish Nationalism and the Idea of Europeby Atsuko Ichijo; Anthony D. Smith

    Routledge 2004; US$ 170.00

    Scottish Nationalism and the Idea of Europe offers fresh insights into the 'pro-European' dimension of Scottish nationalism and its implications for the UK. more...

  • Scotland and Nationalismby Christopher Harvie

    Routledge 2004; US$ 35.95

    An authoritative survey of Scottish social and political history from 1707 to the present day. This fourth edition brings the story and historiography of Scottish society and politics up to date. more...

  • Restoration Scotland, 1660-1690by Clare Jackson

    Boydell & Brewer 2003; US$ 95.00

    The 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...

  • Medieval Scotlandby A. D. M. Barrell

    Cambridge University Press 2000; US$ 34.00

    This is a one-volume political and ecclesiastical history of medieval Scotland. It analyses the development of the institutions of the Scottish state, conflict and co-operation between the crown and the nobility, relations with external powers, the history of the Scottish church, and the formation of a distinctive Scottish identity. 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$ 45.00

    This 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...