William Knox

Scottish History for Dummies

Sprecher: Waterson, Matthew

• Audio CD

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Tantor
• Gesamtlaufzeit: 764 Min.
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. August 2019
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9798200308644
• Artikelnr.: 61578599

Autorenporträt

William Knox, PhD, is a Senior Lecturer of History at the University of St Andrews, Scotland's first university.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction 1 Part I: Getting Started with Scottish History 5 Chapter 1: Welcome to Scotland 7 Chapter 2: From Nomads to Farmers: The Earliest Peoples 13 Chapter 3: Disunited Kingdoms (80
750) 21 Part II: Making the Kingdom (840
1286) 31 Chapter 4: The Kingdom of Alba (840
1040) 33 Chapter 5: Good Kings, Bad Kings and a Saintly Queen (1034
1153) 43 Chapter 6: Peace and Plenty? (1153
1286) 57 Part III: Making the Nation (1286
1542) 69 Chapter 7: The Wars of Independence (1286
1371) 71 Chapter 8: The Foundations of the Stewar t Dynast y (1371
1460) 91 Chapter 9: Renaissance Scotland (1460
1542) 109 Part IV: The Unmaking of a Nation (1540
1750) 131 Chapter 10: From Reformation to the Union of the Crowns (1540
1625) 133 Chapter 11: King, Commonwealth and Revolution (1625
1690) 157 Chapter 12: The Unmaking of a Nation (1690
1750) 179 Part V: The Remaking of a Nation (1750
1918) 199 Chapter 13: A Nation in Transition (1750
1832) 201 Chapter 14: The Making of Modern Scotland (1832
1918) 227 Part VI: New Beginnings (1918
2000) 257 Chapter 15: The Devil's Decades: Politics and Poverty (1918
1945) 259 Chapter 16: The Rebirth of a Nation (1945
2000) 271 Part VII: The Part of Tens 287 Chapter 17: Ten Great Places to Visit in Scotland 289 Chapter 18: Ten Little
Known Scottish People Who Are Worth Knowing About 295 Chapter 19: Ten Things Scotland Has Given to the World 305 Index 311