Description: Offers an up-to-date assessment of Scottish state development.
Brief description: Martha McGill is Honorary Research Fellow at the University of Warwick. Her publications include Ghosts in Enlightenment Scotland (2018) and The Supernatural in Early Modern Scotland (2020), co-edited with Julian Goodare. She has also published various articles and chapters on early modern supernatural beliefs.
Review Quotes: What is the early modern state? What does it do, why, how, and to whom? The present essays, reflecting the scholarly work of Julian Goodare, illuminate many aspects of the state, from notables directing 'high politics' to those such as debtors, criminals and witches at the receiving end.--Alasdair A. MacDonald, University of Groningen in the Netherlands