num_pages: 696
description: Interested in Scotland and its history? Then this book is essential reading. Spanning the 300 years between the Act of Union and the re-establishment of the Scottish parliament, this history covers all the factors that go to make the nation what it is today. The build-up to Union is the starting point for Tom Devine's The Scottish Nation 1700-2000 and from there he takes us up to the end of the 20th century. From the urban, rural and the international perspectives he describes the social, cultural, economic and political transformations of Scotland. Until the 1950s the success of the Union was undisputed but later it came to be questioned. The end of the second millennium saw the re-establishment of the Scottish parliament and the possibility of a future independent Scottish state.Professor Devine is an eminent historian who has written extensively on the history of Scotland. This remarkable book underlines the revolution that has taken place among Scottish historians, in the last 30 years of the 20th century. Breathtaking in its scope and detail, The Scottish Nation is both accessible and constantly fascinating. --Douglas Pretsell
language: English
title: The Scottish Nation: 1700 - 2000
titlecomplete: The Scottish Nation: 1700 - 2000
characters: Louis XIV of France, Andrew Carnegie, Archibald Campbell, 3rd Duke of Argyll, Charles Edward Stuart, John Anderson, David Lloyd George, Winston Churchill, William Ewart Gladstone, Robert Walpole, David Hume, Alex Salmond, John Graham of Claverhouse, John Knox, J.B. Russell, Thomas Reid, Sidney Godolphin, 1st Earl of Godolphin, H.H. Asquith, Keir Hardie, Archibald Montgomerie, 13th Earl of Eglinton, Richard J. Finlay, Francis Hutcheson, Thomas Aikenhead, Richard Rodger, Edwin Muir, James Begg, Edward Heath, Richard Arkwright, Tom Johnston, Michael Forsyth, Walter Scott, Thomas Chalmers, Winnie Ewing, Archibald Primrose, 5th Earl of Rosebery
genres: History, British Literature, European History, Historical, Academic, Scotland, Nonfiction
ratings_count: 340
places: Scotland
publisher: Penguin UK