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Scotland: The Making and Unmaking of the Nation c.1100-1707Volume 4 Readings: c.1500-1707

Edited by Alan R. MacDonald and Bob Harris

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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.

Table of contents
Preface; Acknowledgements; 23. ‘Indian Summer: 1517-1560’, Norman Macdougall; 24. ‘Scottish Politics in the Reign of James IV’, Julian Goodare; 25. ‘Constitutional Revolution, Party and Faction in the Scottish Parliament of Charles I’, John Scally; 26. ‘The Reluctant Revolutionaries: Scotland in 1688’, Ian B Cowan; 27. ‘Scottish Cultural Change 1660-1710 and the Union of 1707’, Roger L Emerson; 28. ‘Clans of the Highlands and Islands: 1610 Onwards’, Andrew MacKillop; 29. ‘Clan Support for the House of Stuart’, Allan I Macinnes; 30. ‘Calvinism and the Gaidhealtachd in Scotland’, Jane Dawson; 31. ‘General Alexander Leslie, the Scottish Covenanters and the Riksråd debates, 1638-1640’, Alexia Grosjean; 32. ‘The Scottish Parliament and European Diplomacy 1641-1647: The Palatine, the Dutch Republic and Sweden’, John R Young; ‘Whatever Happened to the Medieval Burgh? Some Guidelines for Sixteenth- and Seventeenth-century Historians’, Michael Lynch; 34. Early Modern Rural Society and Economy; 34a. In the Beginning: the Tenants of Scone Abbey in the Early Sixteenth Century, Margaret Sanderson; 34b. The Farming Township, Robert A Dodgshon; 34c.Encouraging Improvement, Ian D Whyte; 34d. Was Improvement Slow? Robert A Dodgshon; 34e. Poverty or Prosperity? – Comparing Interpretations, Ian D Whyte; 34f. Landlord-tenant Relations in the Islands, Frances J Shaw; 34g. The Fortunes of the Feuars on Tayside, Margaret Sanderson; 34h. The Old Order: Looking back, Thomas M Devine; 35. ‘James VI’s Architects and their Architecture’, Aonghus MacKechnie; 36. ‘A National Style’, Michael Bath; 37. ‘Music in the Courts of Mary Queen of Scots and James VI’, D James Ross; 38. Early Modern Literature; 38a. ‘Scottish Culture in its Historical Perspective’, Michael Lynch; 38b ‘Rex stoicus: George Buchanan, James VI and the Scottish Polity’, Roger Mason; 38c. ‘The New Historicism in Renaissance Studies’, Jean E Howard.
About the contributors

Alan R. MacDonald

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

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.