Scotland: The Making and Unmaking of the Nation C.1100-1707: Volume 2 Early Modern Scotland: C.1500-1707 - Paperback

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

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SCOTLAND: The Making and Unmaking of the Nation C.1100-1707 VOLUME 2 EARLY MODERN SCOTLAND C. 1500-1707 This is one of a five-volume series, Scotland: The Making and Unmaking of the Nation, c.1100-1707. Volumes 1 and 3 were published in 200, and volumes 2, 4 and 5 in 2007 for the 300th anniversary of the parliamentary union of Scotland with England. The series shows the importance of Scottish relationships and involvement in a broader European story, and aims to dispel long-established myths and preconceptions about the Scottish past which still exert a firm grip on general opinion, even in a post-devolution era. This is a companion series to the earlier Modern Scottish History: 1707 to the Present published in 1998 as a collaboration between the University of Dundee and the Open University in Scotland. Written by leading academics for the Distance Learning course run by the two universities, the series is aimed also at a wide readership - anyone with a serious interest in Scottish history - and presents the fruits of the latest research in a readable style. The volumes can be read singly, or as a series. The title of the new series is 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. Bob Harris is Tutor and Fellow in Modern History at Worcester College, University of Oxford, and Alan MacDonald is Lecturer in Scottish History at the University of Dundee. The cover illustration shows the signing of the National Covenant in Greyfriars Kirkyard, attributed to Sir William Allan (1782-1850), (c)City of Edinburgh Museums and Galleries. Design by James Hutcheson DUNDEE UNIVERSITY PRESS [DUP logo]

Author Biography

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.