Scotland: The Making and Unmaking of the Nation, c. 1100 - 1707, Volume 1: The Scottish Nation: Origins to c. 1500

by Bob Harris (Editor), Alan R. MacDonald (Editor)

Scotland: The Making and Unmaking of the Nation, c.1100-1707 aims to show the importance of Scotland’s relationships to Europe and its part in a broader European story, as well as to dispel long-established myths and preconceptions which continue to exert a firm grip on public opinion. Especially in a post-devolution era, Scottish history and Scotland deserve better than this.

Scotland: The Making and Unmaking of the Nation, c.1100-1707 is certainly designed to provoke but need not be taken to indicate a nationalist view of 1707 as a moment of eclipse. Scotland’s history, like all histories, resists simple generalisations. Were it otherwise, its study would not be so rewarding.

Genres: Scotland

256 pages, Paperback

First published January 31, 2006

About the author

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CUF Lecturer, British History
Worcester College

Selected Publications:

* Politics and the Nation: Britain in the Mid- Eighteenth Century. (Oxford, 2002) 392pp.
* 'The Scots, the Westminster Parliament, and the British State in the Eighteenth Century' in Parliaments, Nations and Identities in Britain and Ireland, 1660-1850. (Manchester , 2003) pp. 124-145
* (ed.) Scotland in the Age of the French Revolution . (Edinburgh, 2005) 1-22, 49-78, 164-195pp.
* 'Scottish-English Connections in the British Radicalism of the 1790s' in Anglo-Scottish Relations from 1603 to 1900. Vol 127 (Oxford , 2005) pp. 189-212

Reviews

[Eylül Çetinbaş · Rating 5 out of 5]

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