Devine T. M. - Oxford Handbook of Modern Scottish History

THE OXFORD HANDBOOK OF

MODERN SCOTTISH HISTORY

THE OXFORD HANDBOOK OF

Edited by
T. M. DEVINE
and
JENNY WORMALD

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Introduction: The Study of Modern Scottish History
T. M. DEVINE AND JENNY WORMALD

1. Land and Sea: The Environment
T. C. SMOUT

2. The Demographic Factor
MICHAEL ANDERSON

3. Mythical Scotland
COLIN KIDD AND JAMES COLEMAN

4. Religion and Society to c. 1900
STEWART J. BROWN

5. The Literary Tradition
CAIRNS CRAIG

6. The Clearances and the Transformation of the Scottish Countryside
ROBERT DODGSHON

7. A Global Diaspora
T. M. DEVINE

8. The Renaissance
ANDREA THOMAS

9. Reformed and Godly Scotland?
JENNY WORMALD

10. The Rise of the State?
LAURA A. M. STEWART

11. Reappraising the Early Modern Economy, 15001650
T. M. DEVINE

12. Scotland Restored and Reshaped: Politics and Religion, c.16601712
ALASDAIR RAFFE

13. The Early Modern Family
ELIZABETH EWAN

14. The Seventeenth-Century Irish Connection
PATRICK FITZGERALD

15. New Perspectives on Pre-Union Scotland
KARIN BOWIE

16. Migrant Destinations, 15001750
STEVE MURDOCH AND ESTHER MIJERS

17. Union Historiographies
CLARE JACKSON

18. Scottish Jacobitism in its International Context
DANIEL SZECHI

19. The Rise (and Fall?) of the Scottish Enlightenment
ALEXANDER BROADIE

20. The Barbarous North? Criminality in Early Modern Scotland
ANNE-MARIE KILDAY

21. Industrialization and the Scottish People
STANA NENADIC

22. Scotland and the Eighteenth-Century Empire
DOUGLAS HAMILTON

23. The Challenge of Radicalism to 1832
GORDON PENTLAND

24. The Scottish Cities
RICHARD RODGER

25. Identity within the Union State, 18001900
GRAEME MORTON

26. Immigrants
BEN BRABER

27. The Scottish Diaspora since 1815
ANGELA MCCARTHY

28. The Impact of the Victorian Empire
ESTHER BREITENBACH

29. The Great War
E. W. MCFARLAND

30. The Interwar Crisis: The Failure of Extremism
RICHARD J. FINLAY

31. The Religious Factor
GRAHAM WALKER

32. Gender and Nationhood in Modern Scottish Historiography
CATRIONA M. M. MACDONALD

33. The Stateless Nation and the British State since 1918
EWEN A. CAMERON

34. Challenging the Union
IAIN MCLEAN

35. A New Scotland? The Economy
G. C. PEDEN

36. A New Scotland? Society and Culture
DAVID MCCRONE

Michael Anderson, FRSE, FBA, Honorary Professorial Fellow, School of History, Classics and Archaeology, University of Edinburgh

Dr Karin Bowie, Lecturer, School of Humanities, University of Glasgow

Dr Ben Braber, Honorary Research Fellow, School of Humanities, University of Glasgow

Dr Esther Breitenbach, Research Fellow, School of History, Classics and Archaeology, University of Edinburgh

Alexander Broadie, FRSE, Honorary Professorial Research Fellow, School of Humanities, University of Glasgow

Stewart J. Brown, FRSE, Professor of Ecclesiastical History and Head of the School of Divinity, University of Edinburgh

Ewen A. Cameron, Professor of History, University of Edinburgh

Dr James Coleman, University of Glasgow

Cairns Craig, FRSE, FBA, Glucksman Professor of Irish and Scottish Studies, University of Aberdeen

T. M. Devine, HonMRIA, FRSE, FBA, Personal Senior Research Professor in History and Director of the Scottish Centre for Diaspora Studies, University of Edinburgh

Robert Dodgshon, FBA, Emeritus Professor, Institute of Geography and Earth Science, Aberystwyth University

Elizabeth Ewan, University Research Chair, History and Scottish Studies, University of Guelph, Canada

Richard J. Finlay, Professor of Scottish History, University of Strathclyde

Dr Patrick Fitzgerald, Lecturer and Development Officer, Centre for Migration Studies, Ulster American Folk Park, Northern Ireland

Dr Douglas Hamilton, Lecturer, Department of History, University of Hull

Dr Clare Jackson, Lecturer and Director of Studies in History, Trinity Hall, University of Cambridge

Colin Kidd, FRSE, FBA, Professor of Intellectual History and Political Thought, Queens University Belfast

Anne-Marie Kilday, Professor of Criminal History and Associate Dean (Research and Knowledge Transfer), Oxford Brookes University

Angela McCarthy, Professor of Scottish and Irish History, University of Otago, New Zealand

David McCrone, FRSE, FBA, Professor of Sociology, School of Social and Political Science, University of Edinburgh

E. W. McFarland, Professor of History, School of Law and Social Sciences, Glasgow Caledonian University

Iain McLean, FBA, Professor of Politics and Official Fellow of Nuffield College, Oxford University

Dr Catriona M. M. Macdonald, Reader in Late Modern Scottish History, University of Glasgow

Dr Esther Mijers, Lecturer, Department of History, University of Reading

Graeme Morton