Scotland : a concise history / Fitzroy Maclean.

"First [ed.] published in 1970 as A concise history of Scotland"--T.p. verso.

Includes index.

Previous ed.: 2000.

'Polished from the rust of Scottish barbarity.' The mists of antiquity ; The Romans ; Four races ; The coming of Christianity ; Columba ; The Norsemen ; Malcolm Ceann Mor ; The Normans ; The French Alliance ; The Maid of Norway ; The Succession ; Edward I of England -- 'Not for glory, nor riches, nor honour, but only for that liberty.' William Wallace ; Robert Bruce ; Bannockburn ; The House of Stewart ; The great nobles ; The Kingdom of the Isles ; The Red Harlaw -- 'They spend all their time in wars and when there is not war, they fight one another.' James IV ; The Renaissance ; The Highland Clans ; The Auld Alliance ; Flodden Field ; Brawling nobles ; The Rough Wooing ; The coming of the Reformation ; John Knox ; Mary Queen of Scots ; Her abdication -- 'The great marriage day of this nation with God.' A succession of Regents ; James VI and the Kirk ; 'No Bishops, no King' ; The Union of the Crowns ; The rise of Clan Campbell ; Charles I ; The National Covenant ; Montrose ; Cromwell -- 'Ane end of ane auld sang.' The Commonwealth ; The Restoration ; Charles II ; The Covenanters ; The Killing Time ; James VII ; William and Mary ; Killiecrankie ; Mi-run mor nan Gall ; Glencoe ; Darien ; The Union -- 'The King over the water.' The Fifteen ; Old Mr. Melancholy ; The Nineteen ; The Fourty-five ; Charlie's Year -- 'For a' that.' 'Lochaber no more' ; 'The more mischief the better sport' ; The Crown as link ; Industrial Revolution ; Political stagnation ; A flowering of the arts ; Return of confidence ; The Empire ; The established Church ; The Reform Bill ; The shifting balance of the parties ; More devolution ; The Scottish economy ; Union or separation? -- ' The settled will of the Scottish people.' Proposals for a Parliament ; The successful referendum ; The new coalition ; Scots in charge / Magnus Linklater -- 'We shall carry it carefully and make the nation proud.' The new seat of Scottish democracy ; The old order weakened ; Global economic crisis ; An overall majority / Magnus Linklater.