History of Scotland

Allan I. Macinnes is Emeritus Professor History at Strathclyde, having formerly taught there and at Glasgow and Aberdeen. He has published extensively on British state formation in the seventeenth century, on Jacobitism, Enlightenment and Empire in the eighteenth century and on Highland clans and clearances from the thirteenth to nineteenth centuries. He has written monographs on Charles I and the Emergence of the Covenanting Movement, 1625-41; on Clanship, Commerce and the House of Stewart, 1603-1788; on The British Revolution, 1629-61; on Union and Empire: the making of the United Kingdom in 1707; an on The British Confederate: Archibald Campbell, 1609-61.

• Shaping a Mongrel Nation, 832-1214Wars of Independence, 1214-1424Renaissance and Reformation, 1424-1625Covenanters and Jacobites, 1625-1753Enlightenment and Enterprise, 1753-1884Unionist, Civic Patriots and Nationalists, 1884-19991999-2018: The Road to Independence?Select BibliographyIndex

To take on the long history of the Scottish nation in a single volume is a prodigious challenge, and Allan Macinnes has risen to the task magnificently. This is a lucid, well-balanced account, full of insight, analysis and no little wit.