Scotland: The Story of a Nation 0802139329, 9780802139320

The definitive history of Scotland, told as a tale from its beginnings up to now (The Observer). Hailed as a "va

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Scotland: The Story of a Nation
0802139329, 9780802139320

A critical appraisal of Scotland’s cultural wealth and global distinction The Wealth of the Nation explores how Scotlan

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A new approach to the early genesis of a nation called Scotland This new edition in The New History of Scotland series,

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Launched in Nairobi in 1960, three years before the birth of independent Kenya, the Nation group of newspapers grew up s

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Scotland: The Making and Unmaking of the Nation, c.1100-1707 aims to show the importance of Scotland’s relationships to

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William Cavendish, the father of the first Earl, dissolved monasteries for Henry VIII. Bess, his second wife, was gaoler

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‘a fine picture of our strange and varied country’ Scotsman ‘edifying and revelatory’ Herald ‘an epic love story to Sc

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Scotland: The Making and Unmaking of the Nation, c.1100-1707 aims to show the importance of Scotland’s relationships to

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A critical approach to blackness in devolutionary Scottish writing New readings of contemporary Scottish writing with a

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The story of Dr Baey Lian Peck should be well known, but it is not. Not even among Singaporeans, and especially not amon

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This text chronicles the evolution of premodern (early A.D. to 1850), modern (1850-1945), and postwar (1945-1989) Japane

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