Description: The seventeenth century was one of the most dramatic periods in Scotland's history, with two political revolutions, intense religious strife culminating in the beginnings of toleration, and the modernisation of the state and its infrastructure. This book focuses on the history that the Scots themselves made.
Brief description: Anna Groundwater lectures in British and Scottish History at the University of Edinburgh..
Review Quotes: Has something fresh to tell us about the tensions between politics, religion, society, economy and the law in one of early modern Europe's most complex composite monarchies.-- "NORTHERN SCOTLAND"