Scotland - Softcover

Bob Harris; Alan MacDonald

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1845860055 ISBN 13: 9781845860059

Publisher: Edinburgh University Press, 2006

Synopsis

Part of the authoritative and thought-provoking five-volume series - Scotland: The Making and Unmaking of the Nation c.1100-1707. Volume 3 (Readings c.1100-1500) contains selected readings to accompany the topic/theme volume 1. These are re-published, seminal articles, chosen by the authors of the chapters in volume 1, to provide broader and deeper coverage for those wishing to explore further. They are intended to complement the original essays and should be read alongside them.

About this title

About the Authors

Alan MacDonald in Senior Lecturer in Scottish History at the University of Dundee. Previous books include The Jacobean Kirk, 1567-1625: Sovereignty, Polity and Liturgy (Routledge, 1998) and The Burghs and Parliament in Scotland, c.1550-1651 (Ashgate, 2016). He was co-editor of the three-volume The History of the Scottish Parliament (EUP, 2004-2010).

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.

From the Back Cover

SCOTLAND:The Making and Unmaking of the NationC.1100-1707VOLUME 3READINGS C. 1100-C. 1500Modern Scottish History: 1707 to the Present was published in five volumes 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.Now come the first two volumes of a further five-volume series, Scotland: The Making and Unmaking of the Nation, c.1100-1707, due for completion on the 300th anniversary of the parliamentary union of Scotland with England in 2007. The new series aims to show the importance of Scotland’s relationships to Europe and its part in a broader European story, as well as, like the first series, 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.A word about the title of the new series, Scotland: The Making and Unmaking of the Nation, c.1100-1707. It 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.Bob Harris is Professor of British History at the University of Dundee, and Alan MacDonald is Lecturer in Scottish History at the University of Dundee.The cover illustration, 'The Crucifixion', Anon., late 15th Century, Foulis Easter Church, Tayside. © Robin McTaggartDesign by James Hutcheson[DUP logo]

Edition details

• Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
• Publication date: 2006
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1845860055
• ISBN 13: 9781845860059
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 256
• Editor: Bob Harris, Alan R. MacDonald