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Current

• Keating, Michael. The Government of Scotland (2005)
• Keay, John and Keay, Julia, eds. Collins Encyclopedia of Scotland. (2nd ed. 2001). 1102 pp.
• Lynch, Peter. Scottish Government and Politics (2nd ed 2006)
• Lynch, Peter. SNP: The History of the Scottish National Party. Welsh Academic Press, 2002. 267 pp.
• McCrone, David. Understanding Scotland: The Sociology of a Nation (2001) excerpt and text search; online edition
• Macleod, Iseabail, ed. The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Scotland. (2004). 400 pp.
• Phillips, Jim. The Industrial Politics of Devolution: Scotland in the 1960s and 1970s (2008)
• Schoene, Berthold. The Edinburgh Companion to Contemporary Scottish Literature (2007), 560pp
• Shelby, Barry. Scotland For Dummies (4th ed 2007), a travel guide excerpt and text search
• Wright, Ale. Who Governs Scotland (2005) excerpt and text search

History

Reference

• Donaldson, Gordon and Robert S. Morpeth. A Dictionary of Scottish History. (1977).
• Donnachie, Ian and George Hewitt. Dictionary of Scottish History. (2001). 384 pp. ISBN 0-00-714710-4
• Ewan, Elisabeth et al eds. The Biographical Dictionary of Scottish Women: From the Earliest Times to 2004. (2006)
• Lynch, Michael, ed. The Oxford Companion to Scottish History. (2007). 732 pp. excerpt and text search
• McNeill, Peter G.B. and Hector L. MacQueen, eds. Atlas of Scottish History to 1707. Edinburgh: The Scottish Medievalists and Department of Geography, 1996.
• Panton, Kenneth J. and Keith A. Cowlard. Historical Dictionary of the United Kingdom. Vol. 2: Scotland, Wales, and Northern Ireland. Scarecrow, 1998. 465 pp.

Surveys

• Devine, T.M. Scotland's Empire, 1600-1815, (2003). ISBN 0-713-99498-3
• Devine. T. M. The Scottish Nation: A History, 1700-2000 (2001) magistral excerpt and text search
• Devine, Tom, Clive Lee, and George Peden. The Transformation of Scotland: The Economy since 1700 (2005) excerpt and text search
• Ferguson, W. Scotland: 1689 to the Present Day (1968), Edinburgh History of Scotland
• Finlay, Richard J. Modern Scotland, 1914-2000. (2006). 424 pp.
• Herman, Arthur. How the Scots Invented the Modern World: The True Story of How Western Europe's Poorest Nation Created Our World & Everything in It. (2001). 384 pp. excerpt and text search
• Houston, R.A. and Knox, W.W.J. (eds), New Penguin History of Scotland, (2001). ISBN 0-14-026367-5
• MacLean, Fitzroy, and Magnus Linklater. Scotland: A Concise History (2nd ed. 2001) excerpt and text search
• Magnusson, Magnus. Scotland: The Story of a Nation. (2001). 752 pp.
• Mitchison, Rosalind. A History of Scotland Routledge: 3rd ed 2002, 468pp online edition
• Paterson, Judy, and Sally J. Collins. The History of Scotland for Children (2000)
• Smout, T.C., A History of the Scottish People, 1969
• Tabraham, Chris, and Colin Baxter. The Illustrated History of Scotland (2004) excerpt and text search
• Watson, Fiona. Scotland; From Prehistory to the Present. Tempus, 2003. 286 pp.
• Wormald, Jenny, The New History of Scotland (2005) excerpt and text search

Cultural studies

• Abrams, Eleanor et al. Gender in Scottish History Since 1700 (2006) excerpt and text search
• Anderson, R. D. Education and the Scottish People, 1750-1918. Oxford U. Press, 1995. 337 pp.
• Broadie, Alexander. The Cambridge Companion to the Scottish Enlightenment (2003) online edition
• Browen, Ian, ed. The Edinburgh History of Scottish Literature (3 vol 2006)
• Brown, Callum G. Religion and Society in Scotland since 1707. (1997). 219 pp.
• Burleigh, J.H.S. A Church History of Scotland (1962), short and impartial
• Daiches, David. A Companion to Scottish Culture (1982) online edition
• Dwyer, John. The Age of the Passions: An Interpretation of Adam Smith and Scottish Enlightenment Culture. (1998). 205 pp.
• Ferguson, William. The Identity of the Scottish Nation: An Historic Quest (1998) online edition
• Glendinning, Miles, Ranald MacInnes, Aonghus MacKechnie. A History of Scottish Architecture: From the Renaissance to the Present Day (1996) online edition
• Hardy, Forsyth. Scotland in Film 1990 online edition
• Harris, Nathaniel. Heritage of Scotland: A Cultural History of Scotland and Its People. Facts on File, 2000. 159 pp.
• Levack, Brian. Scottish Witch Hunting: Law, Politics and Religion (2007)
• McDonald, R. A., ed. History, Literature and Music in Scotland, 700-1560. (2002). 243 pp.
• Mackenzie, D.A. Scottish Folklore and Folklife. (1935).
• McEwan, Peter J. M. Dictionary of Scottish Art and Architecture. Wappingers Falls, N.Y.: Antique Collectors Club, 1995. 626 pp.
• Marshall, Rosalind K. John Knox. (2000). 244 pp.
• Petrie, Duncan. Screening Scotland. BFI, 2000. 250 pp. on films
• Porter, James. "The Folklore of Northern Scotland: Five Discourses on Cultural Representation." Folklore vol. 109. 1998. pp 1+ online edition
• Ritchie, Anna and Graham Ritchie. Scotland: An Oxford Archaeological Guide (1998) online edition
• Schoene, Berthold. The Edinburgh Companion to Contemporary Scottish Literature (2007), 560pp
• Smith, Bill and Skipwith, Selina. A History of Scottish Art. Merrell, 2003. 288 pp.
• Todd, Margo. The Culture of Protestantism in Early Modern Scotland. (2002). 450 pp.
• Walker, Marshall. Scottish Literature since 1707. (1997). 443 pp.
• Withers, Charles W. J. and Wood, Paul, eds. Science and Medicine in the Scottish Enlightenment. (2002). 364 pp.
• Whatley, Christopher A. Scottish Society, 1707-1830: Beyond Jacobitism, toward Industrialisation. (2000). 354 pp.
• Withers, Charles W. J. Geography, Science, and National Identity: Scotland since 1520. (2001). 312 pp.

Specialty periods

• Anderson, A.O. Early Sources of Scottish History (2 vol 1922)
• Armstrong, David. The Kingdom of Scotland in the Middle Ages 400-1450 (Heinemann Scottish History) (2002)
• Barrell, A. D. M. Medieval Scotland (2000) excerpt and tetx search; online edition
• Barrow, G.W.S. Kingship and Unity, Scotland 1000-1316 (1981), in The New History of Scotland
• Barrow, Geoffrey. Robert Bruce: And the Community of the Realm of Scotland (2005) excerpt and text search
• Breitenbach, Esther, and Eleanor Gordon. Women in Scottish Society 1800-1945 (1992) online edition
• Brown, Michael. The Wars of Scotland, 1214-1371 (2004), New Edinburgh History of Scotland, vol 4
• Burton, John Hill. The History of Scotland: Volume 1 (2000) excerpt and text search
• Campbell, Alan. The Scottish Miners, 1874-1939. Vol. 2: Trade Unions and Politics. (2000). 433 pp.
• Campbell, R.H., and J.B.A. Dow. A Source Book of Scottish Economic and Social History (1968)
• Checkland, O. and S. Checkland. Industry and Ethos: Scotland 1832 - 1914 (1989), New History of Scotland excerpt and text search
• Davidson, Neil, Discovering the Scottish Revolution, 1692-1746, Pluto Press, London, England (2003). ISBN 0-7453-2053-8
• Dawson, Jane. Reform and Re-creation Scotland, 1488-1587 (2006), New Edinburgh History of Scotland, vol 6
• Devine, T.M., Clanship to Crofters' War: the Social Transformation of the Scottish Highlands, (1994). ISBN 0-7190-3482-5
• Dickinson, W.C. Scotland from the Earliest Times to 1603 (3rd edition, 1977) online edition
• Donaldson, Gordon. Scotland: James V to James VII (1965), Edinburgh History of Scotland
• Duncan, A.A.M. Scotland: the Making of the Kingdom (1975), Edinburgh History of Scotland
• Ewan, Elizabeth and Meikle, Maureen M., eds. Women in Scotland, c. 1100-c. 1750. (1999). 272 pp.
• Goodare, Julian. The Government of Scotland, 1560-1625. 2004. 342 pp.
• Gordon, William M. Roman Law, Scots Law and Legal History (2007), 352pp
• Grant, Alexander. Independence and Nationhood: Scotland 1306-1469 (1991), New History of Scotland. excerpt and text search
• Hamilton, H. An Economic History of Scotland in the Eighteenth Century (1963)
• Harvie, Christopher. Scotland and Nationalism: Scottish Society and Politics 1707 to the Present (2004) excerpt and text search online edition* Herman, Arthur. How the Scots Invented the Modern World: The True Story of How Western Europe's Poorest Nation Created Our World & Everything in It (2002) excerpt and text search
• Harvie, Christopher. No Gods and Precious Few Heroes: Twentieth-Century Scotland (1993) online edition
• Mackie, J. D., Bruce Lenman, and Geoffrey Parker. A History of Scotland (1984) excerpt and text search
• Laslett, John H. M. Colliers across the Sea: A Comparative Study of Class Formation in Scotland and the American Midwest, 1830-1924. (2000). 314 pp. focus on coal miners
• Lenman, Bruce P. Integration and Enlightenment: Scotland, 1746-1832 (1993) New History of Scotland excerpt and text search
• MacDonald, Catriona M. M. and McFarland, E. W. Scotland and the Great War. 1999. 200 pp. World War I
• Nicholson, Ranald. Scotland: the Later Middle Ages (1974), Edinburgh History of Scotland
• Oram, Richard D. Domination and Lordship: Scotland 1070-1230 (2003), New Edinburgh History of Scotland, vol 3
• Phillipson, N.T. and Mitchison, Rosalind (editors), Scotland in the Age of Improvement, (1996). ISBN 0-7486-0876-1
• Sadler, John. Border Fury: England and Scotland at War, 1296-1568. (2005). 617 pp.
• Smout, T. C., Alan R. MacDonald, and Fiona Watson. A History of the Native Woodlands of Scotland, 1500-1920 (2007)
• Stevenson, David, The Scottish Revolution, 1637-44, (2003). ISBN 0-85976-585-7
• Warnicke, Retha M. Mary Queen of Scots. (2006). 304 pp.
• Weir, Ronald B. The History of the Distillers Company, 1877-1939: Diversification and Growth in Whisky and Chemicals. (1996). 417 pp.
• Whatley, Christopher A., and Derek J. Partick. The Scots and the Union (2006) excerpt and text search
• Wormald, Jenny. Court, Kirk and Community, Scotland 1470-1625 (1981), in The New History of Scotland excerpt and text search