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The Black Douglases: War and Lordship in Late Medieval Scotland, 1300-1455
by Michael Brown

ISBN 186232025X (1-86232-025-X)
Softcover, Tuckwell Press

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Celtic Realms
by Nora Chadwick, Myles Dillon

ISBN 1842120212 (1-84212-021-2)
Softcover, Sterling Pub Co Inc

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In their masterly survey of the history and culture of the Celtic peoples, Dillon and Chadwick cover the whole period from the Celts' pre-historic origins to the Norman invasion of Britain. Though few really understand Celtic art, the authors demonstrate the peculiar genius of the Celts in their religion, literature, and visual arts.

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A Concise History of Scotland
by Fitzroy MacLean

ISBN 0500272247 (0-500-27224-7)
Softcover, Thames and Hudson

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Softcover 7 x 9 inches, 239 pages. History of Scotland, many illustrations. Index. [via]
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Court, Kirk and Community: Scotland, 1470-1625
by Jenny Wormald

ISBN 0748602763 (0-7486-0276-3)
Softcover, Columbia Univ Pr

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Culloden 1746: The Highland Clans' Last Charge
by Peter Harrington, David G. Chandler

ISBN 1855321580 (1-85532-158-0)
Softcover, Osprey Pub Co

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A Dance Called America: The Scottish Highlands, the United States and Canada
by James Hunter

ISBN 1851588078 (1-85158-807-8)
Softcover, Mainstream Pub Co Ltd

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Darien: The Scottish Dream of Empire
by John Prebble

ISBN 1841580546 (1-84158-054-6)
Softcover, Interlink Pub Group Inc

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In defiance of the King in the face of the hostility by the English, the Scottish Parliament set out to establish a colony on the Isthmus of Darien in Central America. This, the persistent dream of one man, William Paterson, was to be a panacea for Scotland's economic ills. The first expedition set out in July of 1698. Three years later, the whole enterprise collapsed, two thousand men had died for nothing and with them had been lost half the wealth of Scotland. Its final consequence was the forced union of the broken Scottish nation with England, which had done so much to ensure its collapse. This story of stupidity, incompetence, and corruption is back in print. [via]
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Dragonfly in Amber
by Diana Gabaldon

ISBN 0385335970 (0-385-33597-0)
Softcover, Delta

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From the author of outlander... A magnificent epic that once again sweeps us back in time to the drama and passion of 18th-century scotland...for twenty years claire randall has kept her secrets. But now she is returning with her grown daughter to scotland's majestic mist-shrouded hills. Here claire plans to reveal a truth as stunning as the events that gave it birth: about the mystery of an ancient circle of standing stones ...about a love that transcends the boundaries of time ...and about james fraser, a scottish warrior whose gallantry once drew a young claire from the security of her century to the dangers of his ....now a legacy of blood and desire will test her beautiful copper-haired daughter, brianna, as claire's spellbinding journey of self-discovery continues in the intrigue-ridden paris court of charles stuart ...in a race to thwart a doomed highlands uprising ...and in a desperate fight to save both the child and the man she loves [via]
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Drums of Autumn
by Diana Gabaldon

ISBN 0385335989 (0-385-33598-9)
Softcover, Delta

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Paperback Book Drums of Autumn is the fourth book in the Outlander series [via]
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The Fiery Cross
by Diana Gabaldon

ISBN 0385336764 (0-385-33676-4)
Softcover, Delta

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The fiery cross, once used to summon Highland clans to war, now beckons readers to take up Diana Gabaldon's fifth installment in the Outlander series featuring the time-traveling Frasers. Historical fiction fans who have waited four long years since the publication of Drums of Autumn will thrill to Gabaldon's trademark detail and sensuality, both displayed liberally throughout the nearly 1,000 pages of The Fiery Cross. In this pre-Revolutionary War period, Claire Fraser and her husband, Jamie, have crossed oceans and centuries to build a life together in the bucolic beauty of North Carolina. But tensions both ancient and recent threaten not only Claire and James, but their daughter, Brianna, her new husband, Roger, and their infant son, Jemmy, as well as members of their clan. Gabaldon delivers on what she does best: poignant storylines, empathetic characters, meticulous detail, and searing passion. Savor every carefully chosen word, readers; it may be a long time until the next installment! --Alison Trinkle [via]
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Game of Kings
by Dorothy Dunnett

ISBN 0679777431 (0-679-77743-1)
Softcover, Random House Inc

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Praised for her historical fiction by critics and devoted fans alike, author Dorothy Dunnett's Lymond Chronicles took the romance world by storm some 30 years ago, firmly fixing Dunnett's reputation as a master of the historical romance. The Game of Kings, the first story in The Lymond Chronicles, sets the stage for what will be a sweeping saga filled with passion, courage, and the endless fight for freedom. The setting is 1547, in Edinborough, Scotland. Francis Crawford of Lymond returns to the country despite the charge of treason hanging over his head. Set on redeeming his reputation, He leads a company of outlaws against England as he fights for the country he loves so dearly. Dangerous, quick-witted, and utterly irresistible, Lymond is pure pleasure to watch as he traverses 16th-century Scotland in search of freedom. The Game of Kings is a must-have for the historical romance connoisseur. [via]
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The Highland Clearances
by John Prebble

ISBN 0140028374 (0-14-002837-4)
Hardcover, Penguin

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Highlanders: A History of the Scottish Clans
by Fitzroy Maclean

ISBN 067086644X (0-670-86644-X)
Hardcover, Penguin Group (Canada)

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A History of Scotland
by J.D. MacKie, Geoffrey Parker, Bruce Lenman

ISBN 0140136495 (0-14-013649-5)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA

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"Comprehensive, thoroughly indexed, and full of learning."The Times Educational Supplement.
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How the Scots Invented the Modern World: The True Story of How Western Europe's Poorest Nation Created Our World & Everything in It
by Arthur Herman

ISBN 0609809997 (0-609-80999-7)
Softcover, Random House Inc

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"I am a Scotsman," Sir Walter Scott famously wrote, "therefore I had to fight my way into the world." So did any number of his compatriots over a period of just a few centuries, leaving their native country and traveling to every continent, carving out livelihoods and bringing ideas of freedom, self-reliance, moral discipline, and technological mastery with them, among other key assumptions of what historian Arthur Herman calls the "Scottish mentality."
It is only natural, Herman suggests, that a country that once ranked among Europe's poorest, if most literate, would prize the ideal of progress, measured "by how far we have come from where we once were." Forged in the Scottish Enlightenment, that ideal would inform the political theories of Francis Hutcheson, Adam Smith, and David Hume, and other Scottish thinkers who viewed "man as a product of history," and whose collective enterprise involved "nothing less than a massive reordering of human knowledge" (yielding, among other things, the Encyclopaedia Britannica, first published in Edinburgh in 1768, and the Declaration of Independence, published in Philadelphia just a few years later). On a more immediately practical front, but no less bound to that notion of progress, Scotland also fielded inventors, warriors, administrators, and diplomats such as Alexander Graham Bell, Andrew Carnegie, Simon MacTavish, and Charles James Napier, who created empires and great fortunes, extending Scotland's reach into every corner of the world.
Herman examines the lives and work of these and many more eminent Scots, capably defending his thesis and arguing, with both skill and good cheer, that the Scots "have by and large made the world a better place rather than a worse place." --Gregory McNamee [via]
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The Jacobite Rebellions
by Michael Barthorp

ISBN 1841761672 (1-84176-167-2)
Softcover, Osprey Pub Co

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Jacobite Rebellions, 1689-1745
by Martin Windrow, Michael Barthorp

ISBN 0850454328 (0-85045-432-8)
Softcover, Osprey Pub Co

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James IV
by Norman MacDougall

ISBN 1898410410 (1-898410-41-0)
Softcover, Tuckwell Press

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The Kingdom of the Isles: Scotland's Western Seaboard, C.1100-c.1336
by R. Andrew McDonald

ISBN 1898410852 (1-898410-85-2)
Softcover, Tuckwell Pr Ltd

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The Lion in the North: A Personal View of Scotland's History
by John Prebble

ISBN 0436386089 (0-436-38608-9)
Hardcover, Taylor & Francis

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The Lion in the North: One Thousand Years of Scotland's History
by John Prebble

ISBN 0517422468 (0-517-42246-8)
Hardcover, Crescent Books

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Mary Queen of Scots
by Antonia Fraser

ISBN 038531129X (0-385-31129-X)
Softcover, Delta

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Mary Queen of Scots passed her childhood in France and married the Dauphin to become Queen of France at the age of sixteen. Widowed less than two years later, she returned to Scotland as Queen after an absence of thirteen years. Her life then entered its best known phase: the early struggles with John Knox and the unruly Scottish nobility; the fatal marriage to Darnley and his mysterious death; her marriage to Bothwell, the chief suspect, that led directly to her long English captivity at the hands of Queen Elizabeth; the poignant and extraordinary story of her long imprisonment that ended with the labyrinthine Babington plot to free her, and her execution at the age of forty-four. [via]
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Mary Queen of Scots
by Outlet Book Company Staff, Random House Value Publishing Staff

ISBN 0517414244 (0-517-41424-4)
Hardcover, Random House Value Publishing

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Mary Queen of Scots passed her childhood in France and married the Dauphin to become Queen of France at the age of sixteen. Widowed less than two years later, she returned to Scotland as Queen after an absence of thirteen years. Her life then entered its best known phase: the early struggles with John Knox and the unruly Scottish nobility; the fatal marriage to Darnley and his mysterious death; her marriage to Bothwell, the chief suspect, that led directly to her long English captivity at the hands of Queen Elizabeth; the poignant and extraordinary story of her long imprisonment that ended with the labyrinthine Babington plot to free her, and her execution at the age of forty-four. [via]
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Mary Queen of Scots and the Historians
by Antonia Fraser

ISBN 0950244376 (0-9502443-7-6)
Hardcover, Royal Stuart Society

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Mary, Queen of Scots and the Murder of Lord Darnley
by Alison Weir

ISBN 0812971515 (0-8129-7151-5)
Softcover, Random House Inc

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Handsome, accomplished and charming, Henry Stuart, Lord Darnley, staked his claim to the English throne my marrying Mary Staurt, who herself claimed to be the Queen of England. It wa snot long beofre Mary discovered that her new husband was interested only in securing soverign power for himself. Then, on February 10, 1567, an explosion at his lodgings left Darnley dead; the intrigue thickened after it was discovered that he had apparently been suffocated before the blast. Afetr an exhaustive re-evaluation of the source material, Alison Weir has come up with a soultion to this enduring mystery. Employing her gift for vidid characterization and gripping storytelling, Weir has written one of her most engaging excursions yet into Braitain's bloodstained, power-obsessed past....... [via]
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My Heart Is My Own: The Life of Mary Queen of Scots
by J.A. Guy

ISBN 184115752X (1-84115-752-X)
Hardcover, Fourth Estate

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Outlander
by Diana Gabaldon

ISBN 0385319959 (0-385-31995-9)
Softcover, Delta

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Claire Randall is leading a double life. She has a husband in one century, and a lover in another... In 1945, Claire Randall, a former combat nurse, is back from the war and reunited with her husband on a second honeymoon--when she innocently touches a boulder in one of the ancient stone circles that dot the British Isles. Suddenly she is a Sassenach-an "outlander"-in a Scotland torn by war and raiding border clans in the year of our Lord...1743. Hurled back in time by forces she cannot understand, Claire's destiny in soon inextricably intertwined with Clan MacKenzie and the forbidden Castle Leoch. She is catapulted without warning into the intrigues of lairds and spies that may threaten her life ...and shatter her heart. For here, James Fraser, a gallant young Scots warrior, shows her a passion so fierce and a love so absolute that Claire becomes a woman torn between fidelity and desire...and between two vastly different men in two irreconcilable lives. [via]
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The Outlandish Companion
by Diana Gabaldon

ISBN 0385257392 (0-385-25739-2)
Hardcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group

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For nine years, four books, and nearly 4,000 pages, Diana Gabaldon has entranced readers with her talent for historical authenticity, dramatic plot lines, and strong characters in the Outlander series. Her superb writing has earned a loyal audience, but after a million and a half words, even the most fervent of fans may have a difficult time trying to recall the exact details of the secondary characters, let alone the obscure ones. Thankfully, Gabaldon's The Outlandish Companion is here to help.
Part crib notes and part trivia guide, this essential handbook includes synopses of the first four novels, a character guide, notes on plot development and research, answers to frequently asked questions, and teasers for the upcoming novels--there're even horoscope charts of the central characters, a list of fan Web sites, and choice recipes for the truly devoted.
Readers looking for a fix of Gabaldon's humorous voice or insight into her writing processes and characters will certainly be more than satisfied, but those looking for the next installment of Jamie and Claire's adventures will have to wait for The Fiery Cross, the fifth book in this bestselling series, expected sometime in late 1999 to early 2000. --Nancy R.E. O'Brien [via]
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Queen of Scots: The True Life of Mary Stuart
by John Guy

ISBN 0618619178 (0-618-61917-8)
Softcover, Houghton Mifflin

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The eminent British historian John Guy has unearthed a wealth of evidence that upends the popular notion of Mary Queen of Scots as a femme fatale and establishes her as the intellectual and political equal of Elizabeth I.
Guy draws on sources as varied as the secret communiqués of English spies and Marys own letters (many hitherto unstudied) to depict her world and her actions with stunning immediacy. Here is a myth-shattering reappraisal of her multifaceted character and prodigious political skill. Guy dispels the persistent popular image of Mary as a romantic leading lady, achieving her ends through feminine wiles, driven by love to murder, undone by passion and poor judgment. Through his pioneering research, we come to see her as an emotionally intricate woman and an adroit diplomat, maneuvering ingeniously among a dizzying array of powerful factions the French, the English, duplicitous Scottish nobles, and religious zealots who sought to control or dethrone her. Guys investigation of Marys storied downfall throws sharp new light on questions that have baffled historians for centuries, and offers convincing new evidence that she was framed for the murder for which she was beheaded.
Queen of Scots, the first full-scale biography of Mary in more than thirty years, offers a singularly novel, nuanced, and dramatic portrait of one of historys greatest women.
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Revolution and Counter-Revolution in Scotland, 1644-1651
by David Stevenson

ISBN 0901050350 (0-901050-35-0)
Hardcover, Royal Historical Society

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Rob Roy Macgregor: His Life & Times
by W.H. Murray

ISBN 0862415381 (0-86241-538-1)
Softcover, Canongate Books Ltd

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Robert Bruce and the Community of the Realm of Scotland
by Geoffrey Barrow

ISBN 0852245394 (0-85224-539-4)
Hardcover, Edinburgh Univ Pr

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Robert the Bruce, King of Scots
by Ronald McNair Scott, Robert McNair Scott

ISBN 0786703296 (0-7867-0329-6)
Softcover, Pgw

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Robert the Bruce is one of the great heroic figures of history. When after years of struggle Scotland was reduced to a vassal state by Edward I of England it was Bruce who, supported by the Scottish Church and a group of devoted followers, had himself crowned at Scone as King of Scots and renewed the fight for freedom. Ronald McNair Scott has used the accounts of contemporary chronicles, particularly those of John Barbour, to reconstruct the story of one of the most remarkable of medieval kings. It is a story with episodes quite as romantic as those of King Arthur, but one which belongs to the authentic history of the Scottish nation.
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Scotland: The Story of a Nation
by Magnus Magnusson

ISBN 0802139329 (0-8021-3932-9)
Softcover, Grove Pr

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Near Stirling, Scotland, stands a memorial to the warrior William Wallace, put to death at the orders of the English king Edward I in 1305. Within that memorial stands a glass case, and inside of it stands a broadsword 1.7 meters long. Legend has it that the hero himself wielded the weapon, and so "Wallace's Sword" it is.
Magnus Magnusson, a native of Iceland who has long lived in and written about Scotland, may spoil it for some readers when he writes that Wallace's Sword probably wasn't Wallace's. To use it, Wallace would have had to have stood at least 6-foot-6 in height and to have lived two centuries later. The business of the sword is just one of the "cherished conceptions" about Scottish history that Magnusson picks apart and then, corrected and improved, restores. At other turns he considers the true identity of the legendary king Macbeth (and entertains some surprising but plausible theories about the king's alter ego); reconstructs decisive battles such as Otterburn, Flodden, and Glencoe; and looks closely at the complicated negotiations (and, many would say, treacheries) that led to the union with England of 1707. Magnusson closes with an account of modern independence movements and the recent return of some measure of national autonomy, opening a "new chapter in a nation's story, which the people of Scotland are now beginning to write."
Lucid, witty, and unafraid of controversy, Magnusson's book does a fine job of condensing a complex history, stretching out for 10 millennia, into a single volume. --Gregory McNamee [via]
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Scotland: A New History
by Michael Lynch

ISBN 0712698930 (0-7126-9893-0)
Hardcover, Pimlico

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This full-length history of Scotland spans 18 centuries, from the Picts to the 1980s. The book focuses on social and cultural history, including life in the towns, the changing role of the nobility and the shifting images of Scottish identity. [via]
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Scotland: A Concise History
by Fitzroy MacLean, Magnus Linklater

ISBN 0500282331 (0-500-28233-1)
Softcover, Thames & Hudson

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"The Scots," said a censorious English member of Parliament in 1607, "have not suffered above two kings to die in their beds these two hundred years." He may have exaggerated, but undeniably Scotland has a rough and bloodstained history.
It is a complex one too, but Sir Fitzroy Maclean disentangles the threads and enlivens his brisk account with both wit and scholarship. Pictures from authentic contemporary sources illuminate his story--its romantic figures and bloody battles, its politics and religion--and provide a rich visual record of Scotland's art, craftsmanship, and intellectual life. For this revised edition, the distinguished journalist Magnus Linklater (former editor of The Scotsman), explores the renewed strengths of Scottish identity as the country enters the new millennium with a new parliament. 250 b/w illustrations. 250 black-and-white illustrations [via]
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Scotland: A Short History
by Christopher Harvie

ISBN 0192100548 (0-19-210054-8)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr

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Scottish Battles
by John Sadler

ISBN 086241508X (0-86241-508-X)
Softcover, Canongate Books Ltd

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Scottish Clans and Tartans
by Neil Grant

ISBN 1585746673 (1-58574-667-3)
Softcover, Globe Pequot Pr

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The Scottish Enlightenment: The Scots' Invention of the Modern World
by Arthur Herman

ISBN 1841152765 (1-84115-276-5)
Softcover, Fourth Estate

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'Every Scot should read it. Scotland now has the lively, provocative and positive history it deserves.' Irvine Welsh, Guardian A dramatic and intriguing history of how Scotland produced the institutions, beliefs and human character that have made the West into the most powerful culture in the world. Arthur Herman argues that Scotland's turbulent history, from William Wallace to the Presbyterian Lords of the Covenant, laid the foundations for 'the Scottish miracle'. Within one hundred years, the nation that began the eighteenth century dominated by the harsh and repressive Scottish Kirk had evolved into Europe's most literate society, producing an idea of modernity that has shaped much of civilisation as we know it. He follows the lives and work of thinkers such as Adam Smith and David Hume, writers such as Burns and Boswell, as well as architects, technicians and inventors, and traces their legacy into the twentieth century. Written with wit, erudition and clarity, The Scottish Enlightenment claims the Scots' rightful place in the history of the western world. [via]
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The Scottish Highlanders and Their Regiments
by Michael Brander

ISBN 0854220127 (0-85422-012-7)
Hardcover, Seeley

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The Scottish Insurrection of 1820
by P. Berresford Ellis, Seumas Mac A Ghobhainn

ISBN 0859765199 (0-85976-519-9)
Softcover, Interlink Pub Group Inc

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This title is an account of the Radical Rising, the last armed uprising on British soil, intent on severing the Union and establishing a radical Scottish republic. It reveals the desperation of the people and the savagery of their government. [via]
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Scottish Kings
by Gordon Donaldson

ISBN 0880299959 (0-88029-995-9)
Hardcover, Barnes & Noble, Incorporated

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Scottish Nation, 1700-2000
by T. M. Devine

ISBN 0141002344 (0-14-100234-4)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA

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The Steel Bonnets
by George Macdonald-Fraser

ISBN 1585790257 (1-58579-025-7)
Softcover, Trafalgar Square

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From the 13th century to the middle of the 16th, outlaws and border lords reigned supreme on the contentious frontier between England and Scotland. Feud and terror, raid and reprisal, were the ordinary stuff of life, and power was held by the notorious border reivers: raiders and freebooters, plunderers and rustlers who robbed, murdered, and wreaked havoc. George MacDonald Fraser, author of the bestselling Flashman novels, takes us back through three centuries of conflict, showing how the frontier society was born and grew; how the region fitted into the diplomacy of the bordering nations; and how, with surprising suddenness, the world of the reivers disappeared. Fraser has crafted a fascinating work of serious history and scholarship thats as irresistibly compelling as any novel.
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Surnames of Scotland: Their Origin, Meaning, and History
by George F. Black

ISBN 0871041723 (0-87104-172-3)
Hardcover, New York Public Library

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Voyager
by Diana Gabaldon

ISBN 0385335997 (0-385-33599-7)
Softcover, Delta

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An exceptionally well written time travel, adventure/romance book by a fascinating author [via]
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William Wallace: Brave Heart
by James Mackay

ISBN 185158823X (1-85158-823-X)
Softcover, Mainstream Pub Co Ltd

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Tambores De Otono
by Not Available

ISBN 8478886893 (84-7888-689-3)
Softcover, Salamandra Publicacions Y Edicions

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The book is retained as new. In perfect condition [via]
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