Scotland's Turmoil

• MapsPreface – Scotland’scultural unconsciousPart One Setting theScene 1500–1626Chapter 1 – TheAnglo-Franco-Scottish triangle, c. 1500–1560The time of the Rough WooingJohn Knox in the ReformationChapter 2 – A tale of two Scotlands,Highlands and Lowlands, Gàidhealtachd agus Galltachd, c. 1100–1545Chapter 3 – The LowlandReformation, 1560–1617Queen Mary comes to ScotlandIn FranceIn the NetherlandsScotland’s Episcopalian/Presbyterian divideThe execution of Mary StuartThe Scottish witch-huntsCapitalism’s conceptionThe Union of the CrownsChapter 4 – Internalcolonialism, 1541–1626In IrelandIn ScotlandFeuding Highland clansKing James VI and the GaelsClans and clan chiefsClan GregorThe Statutes of IonaThe Celtic world a tinderboxPart Two The War ofThe Three Kingdoms (Scotland, England and Ireland) 1637–1660Chapter 5 – The ScottishRevolution or The Second Reformation, 1637–1642The National CovenantThe Bishops’ WarsThe English Revolution or The Second Reformation, 1640–1642Chapter 6 – Scotland andthe Irish Revolution, 1641–1643Chapter7 – Scotland and the EnglishCivil War, 1642–1647Chapter 8 – The ScottishCivil War: clans and Crown revolt against the Covenanters, 1643–1647The Montrose War, August 1644 – August 1645The Clan-Crown coalition unravelsMacColla’s solo career: the Gaelic rising, September 1645 –June 1647The Gaelic rising collapsesChapter 9 –Counter-revolution in Scotland and England, 1647–1650England, 1647Scotland, 1647–1648England, 1648–1649Scotland, 1649Scottish Royalist activities, 1649–1650Chapter 10 – Englishinvasion and occupation, 1650–1660English invasion, July 1650The Battle of Dunbar, September 1650The English occupation of EdinburghFactionalism in ScotlandThe Western Association, September – December 1650National unity and the Royalist revival, December 1650 –March 1651Gaelic RoyalismThe Battle of Inverkeithing, July 1651Scotland’s Royalist-led invasion of EnglandThe Battle of WorcesterBack in ScotlandHighland hostilitiesPart Three EndTimes,1658–1707Chapter 11 – The return ofCharles II; the return of the Covenanters, 1658–1685The Pentland Rising, 1666The Covenanter rebellion of 1679The Killing Times, 1683–1685Chapter 12 – Return ofCharles II: Restoration-era Highlands and Islands, 1660–1682Chapter 13 – Revolutionfrom above, 1678–1689The view from WestminsterArgyll’s uprisingThe Williamite RevolutionThe view from the Scottish Parliament, 1688–1689Chapter 14 – The War of theTwo Kings (Cogadh an Dà Rìgh), 1689–1692The Battle of Killiecrankie, July 1689The Battle of Dunkeld, August 1689The Battle of Cromdale, May 1690The rising in Ireland – and its Scottish participationThe Glencoe Massacre, February 1692Chapter 15 – Scotlandsubsumed, 1695–1707The Darien scheme – Scotland’s colonial projectThe royal succession crisisBritish Unionism and the Scottish nationalist responseChapter 16 – Relentlessresistance, 1708–1715Epilogue – ModernScotland’s choice of conscienceMonarchs of Scotland, 1500–1715AcknowledgementsBibliography

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