| Description |
1 online resource (323 pages) |
| Series |
Oxford Illustrated History |
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Oxford Illustrated History
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| Contents |
Contents; List of Colour Plates; List of Maps; List of Contributors; Introduction; 1. Origins: Scotland to 1100; 2. The Emergence of a Nation-State, 1100-1300; 3. Survival and Revival: Late Medieval Scotland; 4. Renaissance and Reformation: The Sixteenth Century; 5. Confidence and Perplexity: The Seventeenth Century; 6. Scotland Transformed: The Eighteenth Century; 7. Workshop of Empire: The Nineteenth Century; 8. The Turbulent Century: Scotland since 1900; 9. The Scottish Diaspora; 10. Scotland's Stories; Further Reading; Chronology |
| Summary |
Taking in events as diverse as the Scottish assertion of independence at the end of the thirteenth century, the Union of the Crowns, and devolution, the contributors trace Scottish history from pre-1100 to the twentieth century, and show that Scotland was a remarkably successful, thriving, and important kingdom of international renown. - ;Scotland has long had a romantic appeal which has tended to be focused on a few over-dramatized personalities or events, notably Mary Queen of Scots, Bonnie Prince Charlie, the Highland Clearances-the failures and the sad - though more positively, William Wal |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 335-350) and index |
| Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
HISTORY -- Europe -- Great Britain.
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| SUBJECT |
Scotland -- History. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85118827
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| Subject |
Scotland
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780191518683 |
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0191518689 |
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0191622435 |
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9780191622434 |
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1280758732 |
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9781280758737 |
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1429421282 |
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9781429421287 |
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