The Oxford Handbook of Modern Scottish History

by Devine, T. M.; Wormald, Jenny

• ISBN13: 9780199563692
• ISBN10: 0199563691
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2012-03-24
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Summary

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.

Author Biography

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.

Table of Contents

Introduction: The Study of Modern Scottish History, T.M. Devine and Jenny Wormald
Part One: Some Fundamentals of Modern Scottish History
1. Land and Sea: The Environment, T.C. Smout
2. The Demographic Factor, Michael Anderson
3. Mythical Scotland, Colin Kidd and James Coleman
4. Religion and Society, Stewart J. Brown
5. The Literary Tradition, Cairns Craig
6. Clearances and the Transformation of the Scottish Countryside, Robert Dodgshon
7. A Global Diaspora, T.M. Devine
Part Two: Reformation, Regal Union and Civil Wars 1500 - c.1680
8. The Renaissance, Andrea Thomas
9. Reformed and Godly Scotland?, Jenny Wormald
10. The 'Rise' of the State?, Laura Stewart
11. Reappraising the Early Modern Economy 1500 - 1660, T.M. Devine
12. Scotland Restored and Reshaped: Politics and Religion, Alasdair Raffe
13. The Early Modern Family, Elizabeth Ewan
14. The Seventeenth Century Irish Connection, Patrick Fitzgerald
Part Three: Union and Enlightenment c.1680 - 1760
15. New Perspectives on Pre-Union Scotland, Karin Bowie
16. Migrant Destinations, Steve Murdoch and Esther Mijers
17. Union Historiographies, Clare Jackson
18. Scottish Jacobitism in its International Context, Daniel Szechi
19. The rise (and fall?) of the Scottish Enlightenment, Alexander Broadie
20. The Barbarous North? Criminality in Early Modern Scotland, Anne-Marie Kilday
Part Four: The Nation Transformed 1760 - 1914
21. Industrialisation and the Scottish People, Stana Nenadic
22. Scotland and the eighteenth-century Empire, Douglas Hamilton
23. The Challenge of Radicalism, Gordon Pentland
24. The Scottish Cities, Richard Rodger
25. Identity within the Union State, Graeme Morton
26. Immigrants, Ben Braber
27. The Scottish Diaspora since 1815, Angela McCarthy
28. Impact of the Victorian Empire, Esther Breitenbach
Part Five: The Great War to the New Millennium 1914 - 2010
29. The Great War, E.W. McFarland
30. The Inter-War Crisis: The Failure of Extremism, Richard J. Finlay
31. The Religious Factor, Graham Walker
32. Gender and Nationhood in Modern Scottish Historiography, Catriona M. M. Macdonald
33. The Stateless Nation and the British State since 1918, Ewen Cameron
34. Challenging the Union, Iain McLean
35. A New Scotland?: The Economy, George Peden
36. A New Scotland?: Society and Culture, David McCrone