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Why Scottish history matters / editor, Rosalind Mitchison ; with essays by Geoffrey Barrow ... [et al.].
- Title
- Why Scottish history matters / editor, Rosalind Mitchison ; with essays by Geoffrey Barrow ... [et al.].
- Publication
- Edinburgh : Saltire Society, 1997.
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| Text | Request in advance | DA759 .W48 1997 | Off-site |
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- Description
- 117 p. : ill.; 22 cm.
- Summary
- "Why Scottish History Matters is designed to demonstrate the importance of teaching and learning Scottish history in schools and universities, but it has relevance for every Scot, and for all who wish to understand the Scottish people and the shaping of the nation."--Jacket.
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- History
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 115-117).
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- The purpose of this book / Rosalind Mitchison -- Introduction / Geoffrey Barrow -- The making of the kingdom / A.A.M. Duncan -- The middle ages : the defence of independence / Alexander Grant -- The age of renaissance and reformation / Michael Lynch -- Twilight before night or darkness before dawn? : interpreting seventeenth-century Scotland / David Stevenson -- Union, Jacobitism and Enlightenment / Bruce P. Lenman -- The making of industrial and urban society : Scotland 1780-1840 / T.M. Devine -- The Victorian transformation / R.H. Campbell -- Modern Scotland : remembering the people / Christopher Harvie.
- ISBN
- 0854110704 (pbk.)
- LCCN
- ^^^97221579^
- OCLC
- 37464381
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library