ISBN : 9780198713630
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 into an international historical perspective 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.
Introduction: The Study of Modern Scottish History
PART ONE: SOME FUNDAMENTALS OF MODERN SCOTTISH HISTORY
1. Land and Sea: The Environment
2. The Demographic Factor
3. Mythical Scotland
4. Religion and Society
5. The Literary Tradition
6. Clearances and the Transformation of the Scottish Countryside
7. A Global Diaspora
PART TWO: REFORMATION, REGAL UNION AND CIVIL WARS 1500 - C.1680
8. The Renaissance
9. Reformed and Godly Scotland?
10. The 'Rise' of the State?
11. Reappraising the Early Modern Economy 1500 - 1660
12. Scotland Restored and Reshaped: Politics and Religion
13. The Early Modern Family
14. The Seventeenth Century Irish Connection
PART THREE: UNION AND ENLIGHTENMENT C.1680 - 1760
15. New Perspectives on Pre-Union Scotland
16. Migrant Destinations
17. Union Historiographies
18. Scottish Jacobitism in its International Context
19. The rise (and fall?) of the Scottish Enlightenment
20. The Barbarous North? Criminality in Early Modern Scotland
PART FOUR: THE NATION TRANSFORMED 1760 - 1914
21. Industrialisation and the Scottish People
22. Scotland and the eighteenth-century Empire
23. The Challenge of Radicalism
24. The Scottish Cities
25. Identity within the Union State
26. Immigrants
27. The Scottish Diaspora since 1815
28. Impact of the Victorian Empire
PART FIVE: THE GREAT WAR TO THE NEW MILLENNIUM 1914 - 2010
29. The Great War
30. The Inter-War Crisis: The Failure of Extremism
31. The Religious Factor
32. Gender and Nationhood in Modern Scottish Historiography
33. The Stateless Nation and the British State since 1918
34. Challenging the Union
35. A New Scotland?: The Economy
36. A New Scotland?: Society and Culture
