Table of Contents

Introduction 1: Katherine Forsyth: Origins: Scotland to 1100 2: Keith Stringer: The Emergence of a Nation-State, 1100-1300 3: Michael Brown and Steve Boardman: Survival and Revival: Late Medieval Scotland 4: Roger Mason: Renaissance and Reformation: The Sixteenth Century 5: Jenny Wormald: Confidence and Perplexity: The Seventeenth Century 6: Richard B. Sher: Scotland Transformed: The Eighteenth Century 7: I. G. C. Hutchison: Workshop of Empire: The Nineteenth Century 8: Richard Finlay: The Turbulent Century: Scotland since 1900 9: David Armitage: The Scottish Diaspora 10: Sally Mapstone: Scotland's Stories Further Reading Chronology Index

About the Author

Jenny Wormald is an Honorary Fellow in the School of History, Classics and Archaeology at the University of Edinburgh and was previously Fellow and Tutor in Modern History at St Hilda's College, Oxford. She is the author of numerous publications on early modern Scottish and British history and is the editor of the seventeenth century volume in the Short Oxford History of the British Isles series.