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The Scottish Nation
  • Published: 26 September 2012
  • ISBN: 9780718196738
  • Imprint: Penguin eBooks
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 784
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The Scottish Nation

1700-2007



The bestselling opening of T M Devine's Scotland Trilogy - a masterly history of modern Scotland

The Scottish Nation examines the social, political, religious and economic factors that have shaped modern Scotland. Drawing on extensive research and exploring everything from the high politics of the devolved parliament to the everyday effects of huge and growing levels of social inequality, Devine places Scotland firmly within an international context and provides a key focus for the ongoing debate regarding Scotland's future.

  • Published: 26 September 2012
  • ISBN: 9780718196738
  • Imprint: Penguin eBooks
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 784
Categories:

About the author

T M Devine

T. M. Devine is University Research Professor and Director of the Research Institute of Irish and Scottish Studies at the University of Aberdeen. He is a Fellow of the British Academy and of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. Among Professor Devine's previous publications are The Tobacco Lords, Conflict and Stability in Scottish Society, Improvement and Enlightenment, The Great Highland Famine, Clanship to Crofter's War, Irish Immigrants and Scottish Society and The Scottish Nation 1700-2000.

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Praise for The Scottish Nation

Magnificent ... a high achievement, a history of modern Scotland which, rarely for the subject, endows with sweep and power the changes that have created the country we live in

Michael Fry, Herald

Devine's scholarship is state of the art ... if you are after answers to the big questions of Scottish history, Devine is your man

Niall Ferguson