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Domination and Lordship
Edinburgh University Press 2011; US$ 70.00This book discussed the processes by which the Gaelic kingdom of Alba estbalished its mastery over the lesser kingdoms of northern mainland Britain and transformed itself into a state recognisable as Scotland. more...
Medieval Scotland
Cambridge University Press 2000; US$ 34.00This 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...
From Pictland to Alba 789-1070
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... more...
Scottish Independence and the Idea of Britain
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... more...
Scotland
Infobase Publishing 2002; US$ 30.00- Information-packed volumes provide comprehensive overviews of each nation's people, geography, history, government, economy, and culture- Abundant full-color illustrations guide the reader on a voyage of discovery- Maps reflect current political boundaries more...
The Road to Independence?
Reaktion Books 2008; US$ 28.95Independence has been a contested issue in Scotland since the region was first invaded by England in 1707, and the realm continues to linger in a no-man?s land between regional status and full sovereignty. The issue of independence has risen to the forefront of Scottish discussion in the past fifty years and Murray Pittock offers here an examination... more...
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...
Scotland
Random House 2011; US$ 22.67Columba, Bannockburn, Robert Bruce, the nobles, Home Rule, Kenneth mac Alpin, the Wars of Independence, the union of the crowns, Mary, Queen of Scots, the Convenanters, the Reformation, Flodden, the industrial revolution, James VI, Thomas Chalmers, the union of parliaments, John Knox, the Canmore dynasty, Glencoe, the Enlightenment, the Highland Clearances,... more...
The Man Who Gave Away His Island
Birlinn 2011; US$ 15.21?Sensitive and moving? ? Country Life ?A wonderfully rounded portrait? ? Scots Magazine In 1938 John Lorne Campbell bought the Isle of Canna. He wanted to prevent an island described as the 'jewel of the Hebrides' from becoming a rich man's playground like so many other islands and Highland estates. He wanted to preserve part of the traditional... more...
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...









