A History of the Scottish People, 1560-1830

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A beautiful new cover for one of Fontana Presss hardiest perennials.
By far the most stimulating, the most instructive and the most readable account of Scotch history that I have readthis splendid work carries us from Knox to Neilson, from the hot gospel of Calvin to the hot-blast of the smelting process and incidentally seeks to explain the change. For always, in following this lucid narrative, we see an original mind at work, questioning and explaining, as well as illustrating. Hugh Trevor-Roper, Sunday Times

This is a fine history of Scotland. It combines rich and deep scholarship with an elegant and lucid styleNo one who professes an interest in Scotland can afford to miss reading it. Times Literary Supplement

This remarkable book leaves the reviewer with little to say except that all Scots, and even Englishmen, who are interested in Britains development, should read it. It is admirably proportioned, based on vast reading, and brings all the main topics together. Economist

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Professor T. C. Smout was educated at Leys School and at Clare College, Cambridge. He was appointed to a Personal Chair in Economic History, University of Edinburgh, in 1971, and took up his present position as Professor of Scottish History at the University of St Andrews in 1980.