Miles Glendinning is Professor of Architectural Conservation at the Edinburgh School of Architecture and Landscape Architecture, University of Edinburgh, UK.Aonghus MacKechnie is an architectural historian and Head of Heritage Management at Historic Scotland. Together, they have co-authored numerous books including A History of Scottish Architecture (1996, co-authored with Ranald MacInnes), and Scottish Architecture (2004).

• Introduction: Pre-1603 Scotland: Castellated Architecture and ‘Martial Independence’Part I: Absent Monarchs and Civil Strife Chapter 1: 1603-1660: Empty royal palaces and castellated court architectureChapter 2: 1660-1689: From restitution to rejection of the old orderChapter 3: 1689-1750: The architecture of dynastic strugglePart II: From ‘Romantic Scotland’ to ‘Imperial Scotland’ Chapter 4: 1750-1790: Enlightenment and RomanticismChapter 5: 1790-1820: Scotland and England in the Age of Revolutionary WarChapter 6: 1820-40: Scott, Abbotsford and ‘Scotch’ Romanticism Chapter 7: 1840-70: Billings and Bryce: mid-century Baronial Chapter 8: 1870-1900: TraditionalismChapter 9: External reflections: ‘national’ Scottish architecture and the empirePart III: The Twentieth CenturyChapter 10: 1914 onwards: Scottish architectural identity in the age of ModernismConclusion: The architecture of Unionist Nationalism – and its international significanceBibliographyIndex

An ambitious and wide-ranging but closely argued and well referenced account of the complex interplay, over more than eight centuries, between castellated architecture in its original and revival forms and changing concepts of national identity in Scotland ... The authors are to be congratulated on maintaining an appropriate balance and pace across such a broad chronological span and such an intricately interwoven set of themes.