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• Missions to the Gaels

  E-Book | Pub: 01 Nov 2021

  £30.00

  This book is an extended study, in the Post-Reformation period, of the impact of the Gaels in the west of Scotland and the north of Ireland on each other’s religious heritage. Beginning half a century before the plantation of Ulster, Missions to...

• Modern Scottish History: 1707 to the Present

  E-Book | Pub: 30 Jan 2008

  £30.00

  This is the first volume of a distance-learning history of Scotland course. The 26 major topics are covered in five books, designed for self-study and written to accompany the course. These volumes are: two tutorial volumes, two volumes of reprinted...

• More Fruitful Than the Soil

  E-Book | Pub: 25 Jan 2001

  £30.00

  This book analyses the origins, development and impact of British Army recruiting in the Scottish Highlands in the period from 1739 to 1815. It examines the interaction of government, landlords and tenantry. Recruiting is analysed within the context...

• New Perspectives on the Irish in Scotland

  E-Book | Pub: 22 Sep 2008

  £25.00

  Irish immigrants and their descendants have made a vital contribution to the creation of modern Scotland. This book is the first collection of essays on the Irish in Scotland for almost twenty years, and brings together for the first time all the...

• New Perspectives on the Politics and Culture of Early Modern Scotland

  E-Book | Pub: 01 Dec 2021

  £25.00

  This collection of essays on early modern Scotland offers ‘new perspectives’ on aspects of Scottish history from 1560 to 1800. Some essays challenge accepted interpretations; others explore subjects and sources that have previously not attracted...

• The New Town of Edinburgh

  E-Book | Pub: 10 Oct 2019

  £30.00

  This collection of innovative essays celebrates the New Town of Edinburgh over the 250 years since its original creation. The contributing authors discuss the intellectual, economic and political contexts which provided the impetus for the city of...

• The Origins and Nature of the Scottish Enlightenment

  E-Book | Pub: 24 Nov 2003

  £25.00

  In the first part of the volume are collected six essays which comment on mainly institutional matters: the merchant community, the universities and the study of science and medicine. Two important themes emerge from these studies; firstly the...

• The Origins of the Scottish Railway System

  E-Book | Pub: 24 Nov 2003

  £30.00

  By comparison with their English counterparts, Scottish nineteenth-century railways have suffered from a degree of neglect by economic historians. Most of the existing literature is written for the railway enthusiast, concentrating mainly on...

• People and Power in Scotland

  E-Book | Pub: 01 Jan 2001

  £20.00

  Few Scottish historians are better known than T. C. Smout and fewer still more deserving of the high esteem in which they are held. He has made an outstanding contribution to Scottish historical studies both as an academic discipline and as a...

• People and Society in Scotland, 1830–1914

  E-Book | Pub: 01 Nov 2021

  £25.00

  This is the second volume of a three-volume study of Scottish social change and development from the eighteenth century to the present day, originally published by John Donald in association with the Economic and Social History Society of...

• A Political History of Scotland 1832-1924

  E-Book | Pub: 24 Nov 2003

  £30.00

  In this way it provides an illuminating perspective and serves as a corrective to both Scoto-centric and Anglo-centric interpretations of events. Previous studies have tended to concentrate on the resources of the main record repositories in London...

• Popular Disturbances in Scotland 1780-1815

  E-Book | Pub: 15 Dec 2003

  £20.00

  ‘Mobbing and rioting’ in late eighteenth-century Scotland was often the only recourse of the people in response to high food prices, the threat of eviction or the prospect of compulsory military service. This study of popular disturbances in the...

• Princelie Majestie

  E-Book | Pub: 10 Aug 2005

  £20.00

  The lifestyle of a Renaissance prince and his court was a work of art in itself: a dazzling spectacle which propagated the power, dignity and fame of the monarch. The domestic routine of the royal household with its palatial surroundings, restless...

• The Reign of James VI

  E-Book | Pub: 11 Jan 2000

  £25.00

  The reign of James VI (1567–1625) remains one of the most enigmatic in Scottish history. There are long periods within it that resemble black holes in our knowledge. This study is a concerted attempt by a group of ten scholars of the reign, drawn...

• Revolution and Counter-revolution in Scotland, 1644-51

  E-Book | Pub: 08 Sep 2003

  £25.00

  In 1644 a massive Scottish army of Scottish Covenanters moved over the border into England, claiming they were not invading their neighbour but acting to save its liberties, by helping ensure that the absolutist King Charles I did not win the civil...

• The Rough Wooings

  E-Book | Pub: 27 Dec 2000

  £25.00

  The ‘Rough Wooings’, fought by major figures of sixteenth-century Europe for the hand of the young Mary Queen of Scots, were wars as intense, wide-ranging and devastating as the wars of the three Edwards which ravaged fourteenth-century...

• Scotland and England 1286–1815

  E-Book | Pub: 01 Nov 2021

  £25.00

  The relationship between Scotland and England has been critical in shaping the cultural and political history of Britain over many centuries, yet historians have rarely devoted much attention to it. This book recognises the importance of viewing the...

• Scotland and the Low Countries 1124–1994

  E-Book | Pub: 01 Nov 2021

  £25.00

  This collection of essays presents historical approaches to the links which have existed for over 800 years between Scotland and one of the areas of continental Europe closest to her: the Low Countries. Topics include: Flemish settlers in...

• The Scottish Book Trade, 1500-1720

  E-Book | Pub: 12 Dec 2000

  £30.00

  This volume examines the Scottish book trade from c.1500 to c.1720, looking at booksellers, bookbinders, stationers and printers and their relationship to the forces of authority. The scale of the Scottish book trade in this period was surprisingly...

• The Scottish Empire

  E-Book | Pub: 01 Feb 2002

  £30.00

  This new edition of Michael Fry’s remarkable book charts the involvement of the Scots in the British empire from its earliest days to the end of the twentieth century. It is a tale of dramatic extremes and craggy characters and of a huge range...