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Tables of Contents for Scotland
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
`Polished From the Rust of Scottish Barbarity'
9
28
The mists of antiquity
the Romans
four races
the coming of Christianity
Columba
the Norsemen
Malcolm Ceann Mor
the Normans
the French Alliance
the Maid of Norway
the Succession
Edward I of England
`Not for Glory, Nor Riches, Nor Honour But Only for That Liberty'
37
26
William Wallace
Robert Bruce
Bannockburn
the House of Stewart
the great nobles
the Kingdom of the Isles
the Red Harlaw
`They Spend All Their Time in Wars and When There is No War They Fight One Another'
63
38
James IV
the Renaissance
the Highland Clans
the Auld Alliance
Flodden Field
brawling nobles
the Rough Wooing
the coming of the Reformation
John Knox
Mary Queen of Scots
her abdication
`The Great Marriage Day of This Nation With God'
101
32
A Succession of Regents
James VI and the Kirk
`No Bishops, no King'
the Union of the Crowns
the rise of Clan Campbell
Charles I
the National Covenant
Montrose
Cromwell
`Ane End of Ane Auld Sang'
133
24
The Commonwealth
the Restoration
Charles II
the Covenanters
the Killing Time
James VII
William and Mary
Killiecrankie Glencoe
Mi-run mor nan Gall
Darien
the Union
`The King Over the Water'
157
24
The Fifteeen
Old Mr Melancholy
the Nineteen
the Forty-Five
Charlie's Year
`For A' That'
181
43
`Lochaber no more'
`The more the mischief the better the sport'
the Crown as link
Industrial Revolution
political stagnation
a flowering of the arts
return of confidence
the Empire
the established Church
the Reform Bill
the shifting balance of the parties
more devolution
the Scottish economy
union or separation?
`The Settled Will of the Scottish People'
224
8
Magnus Linklater
Proposals for a Parliament
the successful referendum
the new coalition
Scots in charge
List of Illustrations
232
11
Index
243