By Jenny Wormald
ISBN-10: 0198206151
ISBN-13: 9780198206156
ISBN-10: 019960164X
ISBN-13: 9780199601646
fuelled by means of the explosion of great educational reports within the final half-century, there has grown up a willing wish for a better-informed and extra pleasant realizing of the Scottish prior - and never purely in Scotland. The imprecise use of 'Britain' in books and tv sequence that are in reality about
England has began to impress opposed remark; there's sincerely a starting to be hope for wisdom concerning the heritage of the non-English elements of the British Isles and ireland, already good proven in eire and changing into more and more seen in Scotland and Wales.
This e-book brings jointly a sequence of reports via well-established students of Scottish background, from Roman occasions till the current day, and makes the end result in their examine available to scholars and the final reader alike. It bargains the chance to head past the outdated myths, legends, and romance to the even more lucrative wisdom of why Scotland was once a remarkably profitable, thriving, and significant nation, of overseas renown.
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