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Viking Gold
Fledgling Press 2011; US$ 7.28Sixteen-year old Redknee never knew his father. Now his uncle is Jarl and wants Redknee to be a great Viking warrior. But Redknee is clumsy, and more interested in tracking the wild deer of the forest. When the young Viking stumbles upon a war-party making for his home, he must grow up quickly; the brutal Ragnar burns the village, taking for spoils... more...
Wetland Archaeology and Beyond
OUP Oxford 2012; US$ 184.99Despite being one of the most successful branches of mainstream archaeology, wetland archaeology, as an academic discipline, is still relatively unknown. We might have all heard of the wonderfully preserved organic artefacts and ecofacts found in waterlogged conditions, but do we really know how they were preserved, found, retrieved, and conserved... more...
Scottish Nationalism and the Idea of Europe
Taylor and Francis 2004; US$ 180.00'Independence in Europe', adopted by the Scottish National Party (SNP) as its core policy in 1988, has become part and parcel of contemporary Scottish nationalism. But is this not a contradiction in terms? Nationalistic logic dictates that one cannot demand independence while accepting the constraints that come with membership of the European Union.... more...
An unofficial alliance
BRILL 2003; US$ 171.00Grosjean (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. 1600-1800
BRILL 2003; US$ 136.00Examines 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...
Scottish Communities Abroad in the Early Modern Period
BRILL 2005; US$ 199.00Migration 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...
The Scots Imagination and Modern Memory
Edinburgh University Press 2010; US$ 124.00This 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... more...
Pictish Progress
BRILL 2010; US$ 185.00Survey 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, 15001800
Cambridge University Press 1989; US$ 38.00The volume covers many of the most significant themes in pre-industrial Scottish society. more...
From Tartan to Tartanry
Edinburgh University Press 2010; US$ 60.00Draws together contributions from the leading researchers to provide a contemporary evaluation of tartan and tartanry. more...









