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Scotland : a new history

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This full length history of Scotland is made up of 25 chapters spanning 18 centuries, from the Picts to the 1980s and is designed for the general reader.

A particular feature of the book is the attention it gives to social and cultural history, including life in towns, the changing role of the nobles, and the shifting images of Scottish identity through the ages.

The landmarks of Scottish history - the Wars of Independence, the Reformation, the Union of Crowns and the Union of Parliaments, the Jacobite rebellions, the Enlightenment and the Industrial Revolution, are all covered.The author is the editor of "The Innes Review", literary editor of the Scottish History Society and has written books on Edinburgh and the Reformation, Mary, Queen of Scots and the Scottish Burghs.

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Pimlico
0712698930 / 9780712698931
Paperback / softback
941.1
08/10/1992
United Kingdom
English
xxii, 506p., [16]p. of plates : ill.
24 cm
general /undergraduate Learn More
Reprint. Originally published: London: Century, 1991.