Edited by T. M. Devine and Jenny Wormald
Over the last three decades major advances in research and scholarship have transformed understanding of the Scottish past. In this landmark study some of the most eminent writers on the subject, together with emerging new talents, have combined to produce a large-scale volume which reconsiders
in fresh and illuminating ways the classic themes of the nation's history since the sixteenth century as well as a number of new topics which are only now receiving detailed attention.
Such major themes as the Reformation, the Union of 1707, the Scottish Enlightenment, Clearances,
Industrialisation, Empire, Emigration, and the Great War are approached from novel and fascinating perspectives, but so too are such issues as the Scottish environment, myth, family, criminality, the literary tradition, and Scotland's contemporary history. All chapters contain expert syntheses of
current knowledge, but their authors also stand back and reflect critically on the questions which still remain unanswered, the issues which generate dispute and controversy, and sketch out where appropriate the agenda for future research.
The Handbook also places the Scottish experience
firmly in an international historical experience with a considerable focus on the age-old emigration of the Scottish people, the impact of successive waves of immigrants to Scotland, and the nation's key role within the British Empire. The overall result is a vibrant and stimulating review of modern
Scottish history - essential reading for students and scholars alike.
T.M. Devine and Jenny Wormald: Introduction: The Study of Modern Scottish History
Part One: Some Fundamentals of Modern Scottish History
1. T.C. Smout: Land and Sea: The Environment
2. Michael Anderson: The Demographic Factor
3. Colin Kidd and James Coleman: Mythical
Scotland
4. Stewart J. Brown: Religion and Society
5. Cairns Craig: The Literary Tradition
6. Robert Dodgshon: Clearances and the Transformation of the Scottish Countryside
7. T.M. Devine: A Global Diaspora
Part Two: Reformation, Regal Union and Civil Wars 1500 -
c.1680
8. Andrea Thomas: The Renaissance
9. Jenny Wormald: Reformed and Godly Scotland?
10. Laura Stewart: The 'Rise' of the State?
11. T.M. Devine: Reappraising the Early Modern Economy 1500 - 1660
12. Alasdair Raffe: Scotland Restored and Reshaped: Politics and
Religion
13. Elizabeth Ewan: The Early Modern Family
14. Patrick Fitzgerald: The Seventeenth Century Irish Connection
Part Three: Union and Enlightenment c.1680 - 1760
15. Karin Bowie: New Perspectives on Pre-Union Scotland
16. Steve Murdoch and Esther Mijers: Migrant
Destinations
17. Clare Jackson: Union Historiographies
18. Daniel Szechi: Scottish Jacobitism in its International Context
19. Alexander Broadie: The rise (and fall?) of the Scottish Enlightenment
20. Anne-Marie Kilday: The Barbarous North? Criminality in Early Modern
Scotland
Part Four: The Nation Transformed 1760 - 1914
21. Stana Nenadic: Industrialisation and the Scottish People
22. Douglas Hamilton: Scotland and the eighteenth-century Empire
23. Gordon Pentland: The Challenge of Radicalism
24. Richard Rodger: The Scottish
Cities
25. Graeme Morton: Identity within the Union State
26. Ben Braber: Immigrants
27. Angela McCarthy: The Scottish Diaspora since 1815
28. Esther Breitenbach: Impact of the Victorian Empire
Part Five: The Great War to the New Millennium 1914 - 2010
29. E.W.
McFarland: The Great War
30. Richard J. Finlay: The Inter-War Crisis: The Failure of Extremism
31. Graham Walker: The Religious Factor
32. Catriona M. M. Macdonald: Gender and Nationhood in Modern Scottish Historiography
33. Ewen Cameron: The Stateless Nation and the British State
since 1918
34. Iain McLean: Challenging the Union
35. George Peden: A New Scotland?: The Economy
36. David McCrone: A New Scotland?: Society and Culture
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T. M. Devine previously held the Glucksman Research Chair in Irish-Scottish Studies, was Director of the AHRC Centre in Irish and Scottish Studies at the University of Aberdeen, and was Deputy Principal of the University of Strathclyde. He holds Honorary Professorships at the Universities of
North Carolina and Guelph, and has won all three major prizes for Scottish historical research. He is Fellow of the British Academy and Royal Society of Edinburgh, and an Honorary Member of the Royal Irish Academy. He was appointed OBE for services to Scottish History (2005) and awarded Scotland's
supreme academic accolade, the Royal Gold Medal, by HM the Queen on the recommendation of the Royal Society of Edinburgh in 2001. Jenny Wormald was previously C.E. Hodge Fellow in History at St Hilda's College, Oxford. She was a British Academy Reader in the Humanities and has held Visiting
Professorships at Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, and the University of the South, Sewanee, and Research Fellowships at the Shakespeare Folger Library, Washington, DC, and the Huntington Library, San Marino, CA. She is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society, the Society of Antiquaries
(Scotland), and the Royal Society for the Arts.
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