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  Scottish History Reading List
    This reading list identifies some of the important works on Scottish history. I have arranged them by period rather than subject (except for the Wars of Independence). Where books are in print, I have included links to Amazon.co.uk, Amazon.com and Barnes & Noble should you wish to purchase them directly.
     
Politics
J Buckroyd
Church and state in Scotland 1660-1681		 G Donaldson
All the Queens men: power and politics in Mary Stewart’s Scotland
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W Ferguson
Scotlands relations with England: a survey to 1707		 Galloway B.
The Union of Scotland and England 1603-1608
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M Lee
Government by pen:Scotland under James VI & I 1603-1625		 M Lee
The road to revolution: Scotland under Charles I 1625-1637
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M Lee
Great Britains Solomon: James VI & I		 B Lenman
The Jacobite risings in Britain 1689-1746
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BP Levack
The formation of the British State: England, Scotland and the union 1603-1707		 M Lynch (ed)
Mary Stewart: Queen in three kingdoms
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A MacInnes
Charles I and the making of the covenanting movement 1625-1641		 L MacLean (ed)
The seventeenth century in the highlands
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NT Phillipson & R Mitchison (eds)
Scotland in the age of Improvement		 PWJ Riley
King William and the Scottish politicians
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PWJ Riley
The union of England and Scotland		 JS Shaw
The management of Scottish Society 1707-1764
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D Stevenson
The Scottish revolution 1637-1644		 D Stevenson
Revolution and counter-revoultion in Scotland 1644-1651
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J Wormald (ed)
Scotland revisited		  
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Religion
IB Cowan
The Scottish covenanters 1660-1688		 IB Cowan
The Scottish Reformation
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G Donaldson
The Scottish Reformation		 A.L. Drummond & J Bulloch
The Scottish Church 1688-1843
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WR Foster
The Church before the covenants 1596-1638		 J Kirk
Patterns of reform
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C Larner
Enemies of God: The witch-hunt in Scotland		 M Lynch
Edinburgh and the reformation
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M Lynch
"Calvanism in Scotland 1560-1638"		 N MacDougall (ed)
Church politics and society: Scotland 1408-1929
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D MacRoberts (ed)
Essays on the Scottish Reformation 1513-1625		 W Makey
The church of the covenant 1637-1651
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MHB Sanderson
Cardinal of Scotland: David Beaton c.1494-1546		  
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Economy and Society
KM Brown
Bloodfeud in Scotland 1573-1625		 KM Brown
Bloodfeud in Scotland 1573-1625
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D Daiches, P Jones & J Jones (eds)
A hotbed of genius: the Scottish Enlightenment		 TM Devine & R Mitcheson (eds)
People and Society in Scotland Vol I 1760-1830
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WH Fraser
Conflict and class: Scottish workers 1700-1838		 RA Houston & ID Whyte (eds)
Scottish Society 1500-1800
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M Lynch (ed)
The early modern town in Scotland		 SGE Lythe
The economy of Scotland in its European setting 1550-1625
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R Mitchison & L Lenman
Sexuality and social control: Scotland 1660-1780		 MHB Sanderson
Scottish rural society in the sixteenth century
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TC Smout
Scottish trade on the eve of union 1660-1707		 ID Whyte
Agriculture and society in seventeenth century Scotland
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