Product Description: For more than a century and a half the real story of Scotland's connections to transatlantic slavery has been lost to history and shrouded in myth. There was even denial that the Scots unlike the English had any significant involvement in slavery ...read more

Product Description: Received to wide acclaim when first published in the 1990s, this absorbing book remains one of the most important, influential and widely-read histories of the Scottish Highlands from the end of the Jacobite Risings to the great crofters' rebellion of the 1880s...read more

Product Description: The extraordinary influence of Scots in the British Empire has long been recognised. As administrators, settlers, temporary residents, professionals, plantation owners, and as military personnel, they were strikingly prominent in North America, the Caribbean, Australasia, South Africa, India, and colonies in South-East Asia and Africa...read more

Product Description: The Scots are one of the world's greatest nations of emigrants. For centuries, untold numbers of men, women, and children have sought their fortunes in every conceivable walk of life and in every imaginable climate. All over the British Empire, the United States, and elsewhere, the Scottish contribution to the development of the modern world has been a formidable one, from finance to industry, philosophy to politics...read more

Product Description: Documenting the great transformation of rural Scotland between the early 17th century and 1900, this complete collection of essays by a renowned historian examines why this extraordinary era—most often associated with failure, famine, and clearance in Gaeldom—is remembered as one of improvement in the Lowlands...read more

Product Description: Written by the cream of academic talent in modern Scottish history and politics, this book provides a comprehensive examination of the past, present and future prospects of the Anglo-Scottish Union. A scholarly but accessible read, its contributors do not shy away from the controversies surrounding the Union...read more

Examines the social, political, religious and economic factors that have shaped modern Scotland. Drawing on research, this work places Scotland within an international context. It talks about Scotland's history, from the high politics of the devolved parliament to the everyday effects of huge and growing levels of social inequality.

Product Description: The Civil War of 1861-65 was one of the defining moments in the history of America. The Blockade of the US Southern ports during the war is well known. Less well known, however, is the role that Scotland played in this aspect of the conflict - almost 40 per cent of the ships were Scottish...read more

This is the first comprehensive history of the Scottish economy over the last three centuries to appear in a generation. Written by leading scholars in the field, it presents 'state of the art' research in an accessible style to all those interested in understanding the historical context of modern Scotland. Fresh interpretations are revealed on such key and controversial issues as the impact of the Union of 1707, the Clearances, the rise and fall of Scottish heavy industry and the recent transformation of the modern economy. The distinctive features of the Scottish economic system are stressed but these are also analysed within a British and international context. The focus of the volume is both broad and detailed with full treatment of agriculture, finance, industry and the service sector as well as the impact of momentous economic changes on the lives of the people and the massive new role in the twentieth century of the state in economic affairs. At a time of intense debate on the present and fu

Product Description: An epic account of the influential role the Scots played in settling the English colonies of the Americas. Scotland's influence was crucial for the worldwide success of Britain's overseas empire. As emigrants, soldiers, tobacco lords, merchants, and colonial administrators, Scots were involved in nearly every aspect of running and financing Britain's colonies in America, Australia, and India...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

A distinctively fresh account of the last three hundred years of Scottish history offers an incisive look at Scottish identity and culture as it discusses such topics as the Union, the Enlightenment, Industrialization, the Clearances, Religion, and the Road to Devolution. Reprint. (view table of contents)

Product Description: Scotland's foremost composer, James MacMillan, accused his country of being a land of "sleep-walking bigotry" where "visceral anti-Catholicism" disfigures national life. Clearly MacMillan had touched a nerve. Was Scotland really "Northern Ireland without the guns and bullets?" Although the debate was intense, however, few contributions rose above the level of swapping competing anecdotes...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

A distinctively fresh account of the last three hundred years of Scottish history offers an incisive look at Scottish identity and culture as it discusses such topics as the Union, the Enlightenment, Industrialization, the Clearances, Religion, and the Road to Devolution. 12,500 first printing. (view table of contents)

Product Description: This ambitious project surveys the massive changes the 20th century has brought to Scotland. The nation's leading commentators give an overview of the most important trends, providing new insights and fresh perspectives. Comparative reference to other societies in the UK and Europe highlight the unique elements of Scotland's distinctive development...read more

Product Description: Exploring the development of Glasgow, from the medieval period, through the expansion of the early modern town, to the movement towards industrialization in the 18th century, this book places Glasgow in a national and international context...read more

Product Description: This is a collection of 12 essays penned by former students of John Butt, many of whom are now at the forefront of social and economic history in Scotland themselves. Topics discussed include coal mining, granite manufacturing and the emergence of Edinburgh as a financial centre...read more

Product Description: Original archive material is used in this book to explore the social revolution when, in the 18th-century, the old peasant society of lowland Scotland was replaced by a new order of capitalist farmers and landless labourers.

Product Description: The Irish were the largest single group of immigrants to Scotland during the 19th and 20th centuries, and have had a major impact on Scottish society, culture and politics. These papers examine the effect of Irish immigration on Scotland, offering insight into historical thinking in this area...read more

Product Description: Between the early 18th and the mid-19th century Scottish society was tranformed by industrialisation, urbanisation and changes in agriculture and rural society. This work challenges the view that this upheaval did not stimulate much unrest and that a modern society developed smoothly...read more

Product Description: The papers collected in this volume focus on the 18th and early 19th centuries, one of the most formative and vital periods in Scottish historical development. It aims to present a vivid picture of Scottish Enlightenment for anyone interested in the period.

Product Description: The story of this lesser-known human tragedy is now told for the first time in this prize-winning and internationally acclaimed book. The Great Hunger in nineteenth-century Ireland was one of the great human tragedies of modern times...read more

Product Description: This history offers a scholarly survey of the forces that have shaped modern Scotland.