A Military History of Scotland / / Matthew Strickland, Edward M. Spiers, Jeremy Crang.

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Edinburgh University Press Backlist eBook-Package 2013-2000
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Place / Publishing House:Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022]
©2012
Year of Publication:2022
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (922 p.) :; 116 B/W illustrations 26 colour illustrations
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • List of Illustrations
  • Acknowledgements
  • Foreword
  • Introduction
  • I Early Warfare and the Emergence of a Scottish Kingdom
  • 1 War in Prehistory and the Impact of Rome
  • 2 Warfare in Northern Britain, c. 500–1093
  • 3 The Kings of Scots at War, c. 1093–1286
  • 4 The Wars of Independence, 1296–1328
  • 5 The Kingdom of Scotland at War, 1332–1488
  • 6 Scotland in the Age of the Military Revolution, 1488–1560
  • 7 Warfare in Gaelic Scotland in the Later Middle Ages
  • II Forging a Scottish–British Military Identity
  • 8 The Wars of Mary and James VI and I, 1560–1625
  • 9 ‘Mercenaries’: the Scottish Soldier in Foreign Service, 1568–1860
  • 10 The Wars of the Three Kingdoms, 1625–60
  • 11 The Restoration and the Glorious Revolution, 1660–1702
  • 12 Marlborough’s Wars and the Act of Union, 1702–14
  • 13 The Jacobite Wars, 1708–46
  • III Scotland in Britain and the Empire
  • 14 The Scottish Military Experience in North America, 1756–83
  • 15 The French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars, 1793–1815
  • 16 Internal Policing and Public Order, c. 1797–1900
  • 17 Scots and the Wars of Empire, 1815–1914
  • 18 Commonwealth Scottish Regiments
  • 19 The First World War
  • 20 Internal Policing and Public Order, c. 1900–94
  • 21 The Second World War
  • 22 The Cold War and Beyond
  • IV The Cultural and Physical Dimensions
  • 23 Scottish Military Dress
  • 24 Scottish Military Music
  • 25 The Scottish Soldier in Literature
  • 26 The Scottish Soldier in Art
  • 27 Castles and Fortifications in Scotland
  • 28 The Archaeology of Scottish Battlefields
  • 29 Scottish Military Monuments
  • 30 Scottish Military Collections
  • Epilogue: Reflections on the Scottish Military Experience
  • Select Bibliography
  • Notes on the Contributors
  • Illustration Credits
  • Index