Caledonian chronicle
Aug 04, 2022
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Scotland: The Global History, 1603 to the Present
by Murray Pittock Yale, 512 pages, £25
While Scotland has existed, geographically, in roughly its present form for half a millennium, the small nation has adapted to huge political, economic and social transformations, from union and devolution to mass migration, industrialisation and deindustrialisation. It is rarely out of the British headlines these days, thanks to the prospect of another referendum on independence from the UK.
Interest in Scottish history, too, has never been stronger, fuelled by a dramatic rise in the number and quality of academic publications along with
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