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Scotland I have attempted to avoid the production of a mere chronological summary of events which, of late years, have been narrated in works on a larger scale. The series to which my volume belongs is concerned with the Making of the Nations, and I have given a large proportion of my available space to the periods in which I think it possible to trace a real advance in the national development. The reigns of Malcolm Canmore and his immediate successors, in which the Celtic Kingdom of Scotland was profoundly affected by A nglo-N orman influences; the War of I ndependence, which revealed the consciousness of a national unity that had already been attained; and the long religious conflict which began with the Reformation and ended with the creation of Modern Scotland, have supplied me with my principal themes, and are narrated in some detail. For the rest, I have tried to give an intelligible outline of the sequence of events, but baronial struggles and the incessant border warfare find only incidental mention in my story. The quarrels of the Livingstones and the Crichtons in the minority of James II., or of Angus and Albany in the minority of James V., are merely interludes, and the Battle of Flodden itself is but a footnote to history, for, grave as were the effects of the disaster, they made no permanent modification in the relations between England andS
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