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  • 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...

  • 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...

  • An unofficial allianceby A. Grosjean

    BRILL 2003; US$ 171.00

    Grosjean (The Research Institute of Irish and Scottish Studies, Aberdeen) began her study to look more deeply into the few high-profile Scots who migrated to Sweden during the 17th century and became marauding mercenaries, wealthy merchants, and distinguished noblemen. She found a very different story, hidden by a confusion of national labels that more...

  • Military governors and imperial frontiers c. 1600-1800by A. Mackillop; S. Murdoch

    BRILL 2003; US$ 136.00

    Examines Scotland's experience of and reaction to European expansion between 1600-1800. Although Scotland lacked an independent empire in the 17th century, it gained access to the global empire of England after 1707. It covers the geographic extent of Scotland's engagement in European expansion. more...

  • The Scottish Soldier and Empire, 1854-1902by Edward M. Spiers

    Edinburgh University Press 2006; US$ 51.72

    Reflects upon the iconic role of the Scottish soldier as an empire builder from the Crimean War to the end of the nineteenth century. This book examines how the soldier commented on this imperial experience, how his exploits were reviewed in Scotland, and how military achievements contributed to both a growing sense of national identity. more...

  • Scottish Communities Abroad in the Early Modern Periodby Alexia Grosjean; Steve Murdoch

    BRILL 2005; US$ 199.00

    Migration is a fundamental feature of human experience. This extraordinary collection of essays focuses on a particularly intriguing sequence of migrations: those of Scots during the period 1600-1800. As Professor T.C. Smout says in his Foreword, ?The present volume is a breakthrough, surely the biggest advance in the field for a hundred years.? more...

  • Pictish Sourcebookby J.M.P. Calise

    ABC-CLIO 2002; US$ 140.00

    Edited and translated Medieval texts related to the Picts and Dark Age Scotland have been compiled for the first time in this one volume collection. Recorded texts include Pictish Origin Legends written in Medieval Irish and Pictish and Scottish Regnal Lists, many of which have never previously been edited. Students and scholars will also find appendices containing lists, tables, and charts of supplemental information related to the Picts. Dictionaries of 500 personal, place, and population names associated with the Picts provide further innovative analysis of these texts. Calise has compiled a useful tool which allows scholars and students to compare and contrast the content of these texts in one handy reference book.||There are no written... more...

  • The Scots Imagination and Modern Memoryby Andrew Blaikie

    Edinburgh University Press 2010; US$ 124.00

    This highly original study explores how different, but connected ways of seeing infuse relationships between place and belonging. Its argument is that all memories, whether fleeting glimpses or elaborated narratives, necessarily invoke imagined pasts - tenement life, island cultures, vanished moralities, even the origins of social science. But do these multiple recollections share a common frame of reference? Are perceptions conditioned by a collective social imaginary?Visions of nation and community, from Adam Ferguson’s ideas on the development of civil society through John Grierson’s pioneering of documentary film to the structures of feeling in popular fiction, reflect the impact of modernity on Scottish culture since the late... more...

  • Pictish Progressby S. Driscoll; J. Geddes

    BRILL 2010; US$ 185.00

    Survey chapters analyse advances in studies of Pictish culture during the last fifty years. Inter-disciplinary case studies cover archaeology, place-names, history, liturgy, and history within a wider European framework. more...

  • Scottish Society, 1500–1800by Robert Allen Houston; Ian D. Whyte

    Cambridge University Press 1989; US$ 37.00

    The volume covers many of the most significant themes in pre-industrial Scottish society. more...