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• Age of the Passions

  E-Book | Pub: 01 Jan 2001

  £20.00

  The eighteenth century is often described as the age of reason. This book argues that it should also be considered the age of the passions. Eighteenth-century writers recognised the passions as the springs of human life and actions. They began to...

• The Black Douglases

  E-Book | Pub: 01 Jan 2001

  £30.00

  During the century and a half of their power the Black Douglases earned fame as Scotland’s champions in the front line of war against England. On their shields they bore the bloody heart of Robert Bruce, the symbol of their claim to be the...

• Bloodfeud in Scotland 1573-1625

  E-Book | Pub: 24 Nov 2003

  £30.00

  Feuding had an effect on the history of most of Europe. Scotland provides a fascinating focus for the study of the bloodfeud because feuding survived until remarkably late there, and thus is much better documented than in other European societies....

• Border Bloodshed

  E-Book | Pub: 04 Mar 2008

  £20.00

  Scottish military offensives against England from 1369 were largely the product of government policy, were launched with careful timing and, in the reign of Robert II, involved close co-operation with France. They succeeded militarily, encouraging...

• The British Confederate

  E-Book | Pub: 01 Mar 2011

  £30.00

  The interplay of roles of the Marquess of Argyll, as clan chief, Scottish magnate and influential British statesman, make him a worthy counterpoint to Cromwell. This book reviews Argyll’s formative influence in shaping British frontier policy...

• The British Isles, 1100–1500

  E-Book | Pub: 01 Nov 2021

  £25.00

  Academic writing in Britain and Ireland has tended to treat the histories of England, Ireland, Scotland and Wales as discrete subjects of study. This approach is understandable but it does lead to the creation of artificial boundaries within the...

• By Force or by Default

  E-Book | Pub: 01 Jan 2001

  £25.00

  Published on the tercentenary of what is sometimes knows as “The Glorious Revolution”, this collection of essays examines the events of 1688-89 and discards old myths. American and British historians tackle the subject from different...

• The Celtic Place-names of Scotland

  E-Book | Pub: 20 Jun 2011

  £25.00

  First published in 1926, this book remains the best and most comprehensive guide to the Celtic place-names of Scotland and is essential reading for anyone interested in Scottish history and the derivations of place-names the length and breadth of...

• Church and Theology in Enlightenment Scotland

  E-Book | Pub: 01 Jan 2001

  £25.00

  Works on Scottish church history have sometimes been described as parochial, partisan, outdated or unscholarly. John McIntosh remedies this. He diverts attention from the Moderate Party in the eighteenth century, with its focus on the small group of...

• The Church of the Covenant 1637-1651

  E-Book | Pub: 01 Jan 2001

  £25.00

  The troubles of mid-seventeenth-century Scotland were the final episode in a long revolutionary process which had begun more than a century earlier. The changes of the intervening years – most of them gradual and imperceptible – were barely...

• Church, Politics and Society

  E-Book | Pub: 01 Dec 2021

  £25.00

  The essays in this volume, by distinguished historians, deal with the correlation of the Church and society in Scotland from the birth of Bishop Kennedy at the beginning of the fifteenth century to the reunion of the Church of Scotland with most of...

• Clanship, Commerce and the House of Stuart, 1603-1788

  E-Book | Pub: 07 Jul 2022

  £30.00

  This is an appraisal of clanship both with respect to its vitality and its eventual demise, in which the author views clanship as a socio-economic, as well as a political agency, deriving its strength from personal obligations and mutual service...

• Clearance and Improvement

  E-Book | Pub: 01 Feb 2010

  £30.00

  Social and economic changes included an increase in production of food and raw materials, in turn sustaining the remarkable growth of towns and cities over this period. However, in the folk memory of Scotland the social and cultural costs of the...

• Conflict and Stability in Scottish Society, 1700-1850

  E-Book | Pub: 01 Jan 2001

  £25.00

  Between the early eighteenth and the middle decades of the nineteenth century, Scottish society was transformed by industrialisation, urbanisation and major changes in agriculture and rural society. The rate of town and city growth was among the...

• Cromwell and Scotland

  E-Book | Pub: 27 Nov 2007

  £30.00

  This book examines the role of religion in the story of Oliver Cromwell’s invasion and subsequent occupation of Scotland. Analysis of the printed propaganda produced by the Scots and the English makes it clear that both nations defined their...

• David II

  E-Book | Pub: 22 Feb 2005

  £30.00

  David II (1329–1371), son of the hero King of Scots, Robert Bruce (1306–1329), has suffered a harsh historical press, condemned as a disastrous general, a womaniser and a sympathiser with Scotland’s ‘auld enemy’, England. Bringing together...

• ‘Dearest Brother’

  E-Book | Pub: 13 Dec 2010

  £30.00

  This book provides the first detailed account of the course of Scottish politics in the reign of Charles II. It focuses on the years from 1667 to 1673, when, for the only time in the Restoration era, Scottish political leaders were able to make...

• The Dundas Despotism

  E-Book | Pub: 05 Jul 2004

  £30.00

  This is the first comprehensive and up-to-date biography of Henry Dundas, 1st Viscount Melville (1742-1811) and his son Robert, 2nd Viscount Melville (1771-1851). Aided by other members of their family, they ruled Scotland from the 1770s to the...

• The Dundee Whalers 1750-1914

  E-Book | Pub: 24 Nov 2003

  £25.00

  This is a study of what was Britain’s leading whaling port. Today, Dundee captains and the city’s whaling fleet have a permanent place in the geography of the world. Cape Adams, Cape Milne, Artic Bay and Eclipse Sound recall an era when...

• Edinburgh and the Reformation

  E-Book | Pub: 20 Jan 2004

  £25.00

  Edinburgh’s reformation was one of the last of the great city reformations of the sixteenth century. It took on a highly distinctive shape due to the burgh’s social and economic problems and its position as a cockpit for English policy in...