TY - BOOK ID - 77868984 TI - Scotland PY - 2005 SN - 0191622435 1280758732 0191518689 1429421282 9781429421287 0198206151 9780198206156 PB - Oxford New York Oxford University Press DB - UniCat KW - Scotland KW - History. KW - History KW - Scotland - History UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:77868984 AB - Taking in events as diverse as the Scottish assertion of independence at the end of the thirteenth century, the Union of the Crowns, and devolution, the contributors trace Scottish history from pre-1100 to the twentieth century, and show that Scotland was a remarkably successful, thriving, and important kingdom of international renown. - ;Scotland has long had a romantic appeal which has tended to be focused on a few over-dramatized personalities or events, notably Mary Queen of Scots, Bonnie Prince Charlie, the Highland Clearances-the failures and the sad - though more positively, William Wal ER -