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John M. MacKenzie, T. M. Devine
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A History
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The Oxford Handbook of Modern Scottish History
Edited by T. M. Devine and Jenny Wormald
720 pages
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2 maps and 5 black and white images
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246x171mm
978-0-19-956369-2
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Hardback
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26 January 2012
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- Written by some of the most eminent and influential historians in the field, together with bright new talents
- The most thorough consideration of the 'state of the art' in modern Scottish history ever published
- Contains new and fresh perspectives on the classic themes of modern Scottish history while introducing emerging subject fields and topics
- Includes contributions from senior political scientists, geographers, sociologists, and literary specialists
- Situates Scottish history in a coherent international context with several chapters on emigration, immigration, and empire
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.Readership: Scholars, undergraduates, and postgraduates of Scottish and British history; the general reader
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Edited by T. M. Devine, Sir William Fraser Professor of Scottish History and Palaeography and Director of the Scottish Centre of Diaspora Studies, University of Edinburgh, and Jenny Wormald, Honorary Fellow, School of History, Classics and Archaeology, University of Edinburgh 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. Contributors:
Michael Anderson, Honorary Professorial Fellow, School of History, Classics and Archaeology, University of Edinburgh
Karin Bowie, Lecturer, School
of Humanities, University of Glasgow
Ben Braber, Honorary Research Fellow, School of Humanities, University of Glasgow
Esther Breitenbach, Research Fellow, School of History, Classics and Archaeology, University
of Edinburgh.
Alexander Broadie, Honorary Professorial Research Fellow, School of Humanities, University of Glasgow
Stewart J Brown, Professor of Ecclesiastical History and Head of the School of Divinity, University of Edinburgh
Ewen A. Cameron, Reader in Scottish History, University of Edinburgh
James Coleman, University of Glasgow
Cairns Craig, Glucksman Professor of Irish and Scottish Studies, University of Aberdeen
T.M. Devine, Sir William Fraser Professor of Scottish History
and Palaeography and Director of the Scottish Centre for Diaspora Studies, University of Edinburgh
Robert Dodgshon, Emeritus Professor, Institute of Geography and Earth Science, Aberystwyth University
Elizabeth Ewan, University Research Chair, History and Scottish Studies, University of Guelph, Canada
Richard Finlay, Professor of Scottish History, University of Strathclyde
Patrick Fitzgerald, Lecturer & Development Officer, Centre for Migration Studies, Ulster American Folk Park, Northern Ireland
Douglas Hamilton, Lecturer, Department of History, University of Hull
Clare Jackson, Lecturer and Director of Studies in History, Trinity Hall, University of Cambridge
Colin Kidd, Professor of Intellectual History and
Political Thought, Queen's University Belfast
Anne-Marie Kilday, Professor of Criminal History and Associate Dean (Research & Knowledge Transfer), Oxford Brookes University
Angela McCarthy, Professor of Scottish and Irish History, University of Otago, New Zealand
David McCrone, Professor of Sociology, School of Social and Political Science, University of Edinburgh
Catriona M.M. Macdonald, Professor in the School of Law and Social Sciences, Glasgow Caledonian University
E.W. McFarland, Professor of History, School of Law and Social Sciences, Glasgow Caledonian University
Iain McLean, Professor of Politics and Official Fellow of Nuffield College, Oxford University
Esther Mijers, Lecturer, Department of History,
University of Reading
Graeme Morton, Scottish Studies Foundation Chair, Department of History, University of Guelph, Canada
Steve Murdoch, Professor of History, University of St Andrews
Stana Nenadic, Senior Lecturer, School of History, Classics and Archaeology, University of Edinburgh.
G. C. Peden, Emeritus Professor of History, University of Stirling
Gordon Pentland, Lecturer in History, School of History, Classics and Archaeology, University of Edinburgh
Alasdair Raffe, Lecturer in History, Northumbria University
Richard Rodger, Professor of Economic and Social History, School of History, Classics and Archaeology, University of Edinburgh
T C Smout, Professor Emeritus, School of History, University
of St Andrews
Laura A.M. Stewart, Lecturer in early modern British history, Birkbeck, University of London
Daniel Szechi, Professor of Early Modern History, School of Arts, Histories and Cultures, University of Manchester
Andrea Thomas, Independent Scholar
Graham Walker, Professor of Political History, School of Politics, International Studies and Philosophy, Queen's University Belfast
Jenny Wormald, Honorary Fellow, School of History, Classics and Archaeology, University of Edinburgh
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"[The book] is like a banquet, in which every dish is tempting ... This is a book every library and school should purchase." - Rosemary Goring, Glasgow Herald "... extremely refreshing ..." - Stuart Kelly, The Scotsman
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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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