Scottish History


How the Scots Invented the Modern World: The True Story of How Western Europe’s Poorest Nation Created our World & Everything in It
The Highland Clearances
Outlander (Outlander, #1)
Culloden
Scotland: The Story of a Nation
A History Of Scotland
Glencoe: The Story of the Massacre
Robert the Bruce: King of Scots
Mary Queen of Scots
The Scottish Nation: A History, 1700 - 2000
The Scottish Clearances: A History of the Dispossessed, 1600 - 1900
The Picts: A History
The Wars of Scotland, 1214 - 1371
The Lion in the North: A Personal View of Scotland's History
Queen of Scots: The True Life of Mary Stuart
The Social Contract by Jean-Jacques RousseauAn Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations by Adam SmithCandide and Philosophical Letters by VoltaireCritique of Pure Reason by Immanuel KantThe Enlightenment, Volume 1 by Peter Gay
The Enlightenment and its Impact
288 books — 99 voters
The Celts by John CollisThe Celtic World by Jennifer PaxtonThe Conquest of Gaul by Gaius Julius CaesarThe History of Rome, Books 1-5 by LivyA New History of Ireland by Theodore William Moody
The Celtic World Suggested Reading
81 books — 2 voters

After Elizabeth by Leanda de LisleGod's Vindictive Wrath by Charles CordellGod's Secretaries by Adam NicolsonPirates of Barbary by Adrian TinniswoodUnnatural Murder by Anne Somerset
Early Stuart Britain
107 books — 19 voters

James Robertson
She was convinced the country was about to succumb to revolutionary socialism. Her own circumstances encouraged this belief: just on the edge of the really rich country set, she shared their views and opinions but lacked the financial and architechtural insulation from real or imagined political troubles. She found crushed larger cans and cigarette packets in her front garden and interpreted these as menacing signals from the Perthshire proletariat. Every flicker and dim of electric light was a ...more
James Robertson, And the Land Lay Still

Burton's History of Scotland and the widespread welcome it received, both within the nation and internationally, is incompatible with the view that Scottish history suffered a mortal decline, that there was some kind of atypical, catastrophic failure of national historical confidence in the second half of the nineteenth century. On the contrary, the country produced, and welcomed, a national narrative that incorporated the full range of characteristics typifying the national histories produced a ...more
Craig Beveridge, Recovering Scottish History: John Hill Burton and Scottish National Identity in the Nineteenth Century

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