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In the centuries which are the
focus of this book, Scotland was going though a period of profound and often
violent change.
With the Americas having been recently
discovered in 1492, awareness of other continents' cultures and natural wonders
was fast increasing- though both cultures and wonders were often mistreated by
colonialists and traders.
At the same time, the recently invented printing press
allowed ideas and information to spread more quickly over long distances,
thereby adding to the atmosphere of national upheaval and disorder.
In the sphere of politics, influential and
seditious texts challenged the most powerful institutions which had ruled
Europe during the preceding centuries - not least among them, the Catholic
Church - and the feudal form of social control, under which a small class of
hereditary aristocrats had ruled over the poor and powerless masses, was being
called into question.
Politics and religion,
especially forms of worship, were closely intertwined in a way that is hard to
fully grasp today and in each was to be found the cause for civil strife and
appalling violence.
As in other countries, Scotland became
gripped by the Protestant Reformation and saw new social groups with new
worldviews rise into the ranks of the powerful. This involved not just a clash
of ideas and of values, but also frequent episodes of prolonged war and often
irreconcilable division.
Contents
Maps
Preface - Scotland's
cultural unconscious
Part One Setting the
Scene 1500-1626
Chapter 1 - The
Anglo-Franco-Scottish triangle, c. 1500-1560
The time of the Rough Wooing
John Knox in the Reformation
Chapter 2 - A tale of two Scotlands,
Highlands and Lowlands, Gàidhealtachd agus Galltachd, c. 1100-1545
Chapter 3 - The Lowland
Reformation, 1560-1617
Queen Mary comes to Scotland
In France
In the Netherlands
Scotland's Episcopalian/Presbyterian divide
The execution of Mary Stuart
The Scottish witch-hunts
Capitalism's conception
The Union of the Crowns
Chapter 4 - Internal
colonialism, 1541-1626
In Ireland
In Scotland
Feuding Highland clans
King James VI and the Gaels
Clans and clan chiefs
Clan Gregor
The Statutes of Iona
The Celtic world a tinderbox
Part Two The War of
The Three Kingdoms (Scotland, England and Ireland) 1637-1660
Chapter 5 - The Scottish
Revolution or The Second Reformation, 1637-1642
The National Covenant
The Bishops' Wars
The English Revolution or The Second Reformation, 1640-1642
Chapter 6 - Scotland and
the Irish Revolution, 1641-1643
Chapter
7 - Scotland and the English
Civil War, 1642-1647
Chapter 8 - The Scottish
Civil War: clans and Crown revolt against the Covenanters, 1643-1647
The Montrose War, August 1644 - August 1645
The Clan-Crown coalition unravels
MacColla's solo career: the Gaelic rising, September 1645 -
June 1647
The Gaelic rising collapses
Chapter 9 -
Counter-revolution in Scotland and England, 1647-1650
England, 1647
Scotland, 1647-1648
England, 1648-1649
Scotland, 1649
Scottish Royalist activities, 1649-1650
Chapter 10 - English
invasion and occupation, 1650-1660
English invasion, July 1650
The Battle of Dunbar, September 1650
The English occupation of Edinburgh
Factionalism in Scotland
The Western Association, September - December 1650
National unity and the Royalist revival, December 1650 -
March 1651
Gaelic Royalism
The Battle of Inverkeithing, July 1651
Scotland's Royalist-led invasion of England
The Battle of Worcester
Back in Scotland
Highland hostilities
Part Three End
Times,1658-1707
Chapter 11 - The return of
Charles II; the return of the Covenanters, 1658-1685
The Pentland Rising, 1666
The Covenanter rebellion of 1679
The Killing Times, 1683-1685
Chapter 12 - Return of
Charles II: Restoration-era Highlands and Islands, 1660-1682
Chapter 13 - Revolution
from above, 1678-1689
The view from Westminster
Argyll's uprising
The Williamite Revolution
The view from the Scottish Parliament, 1688-1689
Chapter 14 - The War of the
Two Kings (Cogadh an Dà Rìgh), 1689-1692
The Battle of Killiecrankie, July 1689
The Battle of Dunkeld, August 1689
The Battle of Cromdale, May 1690
The rising in Ireland - and its Scottish participation
The Glencoe Massacre, February 1692
Chapter 15 - Scotland
subsumed, 1695-1707
The Darien scheme - Scotland's colonial project
The royal succession crisis
British Unionism and the Scottish nationalist response
Chapter 16 - Relentless
resistance, 1708-1715
Epilogue - Modern
Scotland's choice of conscience
Monarchs of Scotland, 1500-1715
Acknowledgements
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