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Scotland: The Making and Unmaking of the Nation C.1100-1707: Early Modern Scotland: C.1500-1707 (2) - Couverture souple

 
9781845860288: Scotland: The Making and Unmaking of the Nation C.1100-1707: Early Modern Scotland: C.1500-1707 (2)

Synopsis

Part of the authoritative and thought-provoking five-volume series - Scotland: The Making and Unmaking of the Nation c.1100-1707. Volume 2 (Early Modern Scotland: c. 1500-1707) comprises specially commissioned essays by a strong field of expert authors. It starts with a number of broadly chronological chapters, furnishing a basic narrative, which are followed by a range of more thematic ones. Some of the thems to emerge are the Highland-Lowland divide, urbanisation, Scottish identity, and Anglo-Scottish relations. There is an emphasis on cultural history and a key theme is Scotland's involvement in a broader European past.

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À propos des auteurs

Alan MacDonald is a senior lecturer in History at the University of Dundee, with a particular interest in the history of early modern Scotland, especially the history of the church and of parliament.

Bob Harris held a personal chair in British History at the University of Dundee until 2006, since when he has been Fellow and Tutor in History at Worcester College, University of Oxford. He has published widely on eighteenth-century British and Irish political, social and cultural history. His most recent book was The Scottish People and the French Revolution, published in 2008. Between 2011-14, he has been vice chair of the Board of the Faculty of History at the University of Oxford.

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