Book description
Columba, Bannockburn, Robert Bruce, the nobles, Home Rule, Kenneth
mac Alpin, the Wars of Independence, the union of the crowns, Mary,
Queen of Scots, the Convenanters, the Reformation, Flodden, the
industrial revolution, James VI, Thomas Chalmers, the union of
parliaments, John Knox, the Canmore dynasty, Glencoe, the
Enlightenment, the Highland Clearances, devolution, the Jacobites...
Scotland is the first full-length, one-volume history of the
country for more than twenty years. It spans twenty centuries, from
the Picts to the present day. It is thrilling, comprehensive,
provocative and timely.
Michael Lynch, who was born in Aberdeen and is a graduate of the
Universities of Aberdeen and London, has taught in the University of
Wales and is now Senior Lecturer in the Department of Scottish History
at the University of Edinburgh. He has published books on Edinburgh and
the Reformation, Mary, Queen of Scots, and Scottish burghs in both
medieval and early modern periods, as well as articles on a range of
topics from intellectual to economic history. He is past editor of the
ecclesiastical history journal,
The Innes Review
, and literary editor of the Scottish History Society.
