The Oxford Handbook of Modern Scottish History

T. M. Devine previously held the Glucksman Research Chair in Irish-Scottish Studies, was Director of the AHRC Centre in Irish and Scottish Studies at the University of Aberdeen, and was Deputy Principal of the University of Strathclyde. He holds Honorary Professorships at the Universities of North Carolina and Guelph, and has won all three major prizes for Scottish historical research. He is Fellow of the British Academy and Royal Society of Edinburgh, and an Honorary Member of the Royal Irish Academy. He was appointed OBE for services to Scottish History (2005) and awarded Scotland's supreme academic accolade, the Royal Gold Medal, by HM the Queen on the recommendation of the Royal Society of Edinburgh in 2001.Jenny Wormald was previously C.E. Hodge Fellow in History at St Hilda's College, Oxford. She was a British Academy Reader in the Humanities and has held Visiting Professorships at Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, and the University of the South, Sewanee, and Research Fellowships at the Shakespeare Folger Library, Washington, DC, and the Huntington Library, San Marino, CA. She is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society, the Society of Antiquaries (Scotland), and the Royal Society for the Arts.

• PART ONE: SOME FUNDAMENTALS OF MODERN SCOTTISH HISTORY; PART TWO: REFORMATION, REGAL UNION AND CIVIL WARS 1500 - C.1680; PART THREE: UNION AND ENLIGHTENMENT C.1680 - 1760; PART FOUR: THE NATION TRANSFORMED 1760 - 1914; PART FIVE: THE GREAT WAR TO THE NEW MILLENNIUM 1914 - 2010

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