Nominated for the Agnes Mure MacKenzie Award (March 1997)
`a very clear view of the pre-nineteenth-century inheritance, in
chapters which are among the best introductory suveys currently
available on this subject'
Scottish Historical Review, vol.LXXX,no.209
`Robert Anderson's monograph offers much for students and
professional historians alike to ponder.'
Scottish Historical Review, vol.LXXX,no.209
`His book entirely supplants the old general histories of the
subject: securely based in far more extensive research ... The
author's arguments are closely documented - with the data, where
appropriate, helpfully set out in tables and maps, in both text and
appendices ... Not the least of the book's qualities is that it is
well written - a good and refreshing read; it deserves to reach far
beyond the scholarly community to which it is primarily
addressed
... Professor Anderson has certainly provided us with a new and
firm groundwork on which to build ... His book is doubly welcome:
as a much-needed, insightful and nicely coherent account of a
period of high
complexity and significance for Scottish schooling, and also as an
invaluable launching-pad for his own and others' further
explorations of this vitally important factor in the making of
modern Scottish society.'
Scottish Affairs
`a most valuable contribution both to Scottish history and to
educational history generally'
W.B. Stephens, University of Leeds, Journal of Educational
Administration and History, Volume 28, Number 2, July 1996
`detailed and instructive volume'
Joy Hendry, Chapman 86
`positions his views in an impressive amount of new research and
with thoughtful analysis of an expanding and in some areas
controversial literature on the subject ... It is likely to prove a
powerful weapon in the armoury of revisionism in the new Scottish
history, embedded as it increasingly is in a comparative framework
drawn from the European experience as much as that of other
countries in the British Isles. This is an important book and
likely to
become the standard work on the subject.'
Ian Donnachie, The Open University, The Historical Association 1997
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