Scotland [[electronic resource]] : a history / / edited by Jenny Wormald

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910777792303321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Oxford ; ; New York, : Oxford University Press, 2005
• ISBN: 0-19-162243-5; 1-280-75873-2; 0-19-151868-9; 1-4294-2128-2
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (323 p.)
• Collana: Oxford Illustrated History
• Altri autori (Persone): WormaldJenny
• Disciplina: 941.1
• Soggetti: Scotland History
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. [335]-350) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Origins: Scotland to 1100 / Katherine Forsyth. -- ; The emergence of a nation state, 1100-1300 / Keith Stringer. -- Survival and revival: late Medieval Scotland / Michael Brown ; and Steve Boardman. -- Renaissance and Reformation: the sixteenth century / Roger Mason. -- Confidence and perplexity: the seventeenth century / Jenny Wormald. -- Scotland transformed: the eighteenth century / Richard B. Sher. -- Workshop of empire: the nineteenth century / I.G.C. Hutchison. -- ; The turbulent century: Scotland since 1900 / Richard Finlay. -- ; The Scottish Diaspora / David Armitage. -- Scotland's stories / Sally Mapstone.
• Sommario/riassunto: Taking in events as diverse as the Scottish assertion of independence at the end of the thirteenth century, the Union of the Crowns, and devolution, the contributors trace Scottish history from pre-1100 to the twentieth century, and show that Scotland was a remarkably successful, thriving, and important kingdom of international renown. - ;Scotland has long had a romantic appeal which has tended to be focused on a few over-dramatized personalities or events, notably Mary Queen of Scots, Bonnie Prince Charlie, the Highland Clearances-the failures and the sad - though more positively, William Wal