Table of Contents
1 Scotland Emerges 1
2 The Wars of Independence 17
3 Reformation and the War of the Three Kingdoms 32
4 Union, Jacobites and Popular Unrest 51
5 Enlightenment and Capitalism 68
Rebel Lives: Robert Burns 79
6 Radicals and Chartists 83
7 The Highland Clearances and Resistance 107
8 Scotland in the Nineteenth Century 117
Rebel Lives: James Connolly 138
9 The Clyde Runs Red 142
Rebel Lives: John Maclean 159
10 The 1920s: Economic Decline and General Strike 164
Rebel Lives: Helen Crawfurd 188
11 The Great Depression: Suffering and Resistance 192
Rebel Lives: Hugh MacDiarmid 214
12 World War II arid After 220
Rebel Lives: Mary Brooksbank 240
13 The 1970s: When Workers Won 244
14 The Thatcher Years 256
15 Twenty-First-Century Scotland 293
Conclusion: Our Destiny Is In Our Hands 316
Acknowledgements 327
Notes 329
Index 363