A History of the Scottish People 1560-1830
by T. C. Smout
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A beautiful new cover for one of Fontana Press's hardiest perennials. 'By far the most stimulating, the most instructive and the most readable account of Scotch history that I have read...this splendid work carries us from Knox to Neilson, from the hot gospel of Calvin to the hot-blast of the smelting process - and incidentally seeks to explain the change. For always, in following this lucid narrative, we see an original mind at work, questioning and explaining, as well as illustrating.' show more Hugh Trevor-Roper, Sunday Times 'This is a fine history of Scotland. It combines rich and deep scholarship with an elegant and lucid style...No one who professes an interest in Scotland can afford to miss reading it.' Times Literary Supplement 'This remarkable book leaves the reviewer with little to say except that all Scots, and even Englishmen, who are interested in Britain's development, should read it. It is admirably proportioned, based on vast reading, and brings all the main topics together.' Economist show lessTags
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Even after half a century remains highly informative, with finely balanced proportions of social, political, economic and cultural history. (Also a good reminder that whatever the drawbacks of the modern era, one shouldn't idealise the past.)
Still a very good single-book overview of important aspects of Scottish history.
Detailed, worthy academic textbook, but not written in an engaging style.
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T.C. Smout is Emeritus Professor of Scottish History at the University of St Andrews and Historiographer Royal for Scotland. He became an environmental historian in the 1980s and in 1999 was invited to deliver the Ford Lectures in Oxford, published later by Edinburgh University Press as Nature Contested: Environmental History in Scotland and show more Northern England since 1600. He has also written extensively on woodlands history, most recently a History or the Native Woodlands of Scotland, 1500-1920 with Alan R. MacDonald and Fiona Watson (Edinburgh University Press, 2005). His earlier works on Scottish social history, The History of the Scottish People, 1560-1830 (1969) and A Century of the Scottish People, 1830-1950 (1986), are regarded as classics. show less
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- Canonical title
- A History of the Scottish People 1560-1830
- Important places
- Scotland, UK
- Original language
- English
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- English
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