{"product_id":"lynch-m-scotland-9780712698931","title":"Lynch M Scotland","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrom Bannockburn and Robert the Bruce to the union of the crowns and Mary, Queen of Scots; from the Reformation and John Knox, to the Enlightenment and the Highland Clearances, and right up to devolution, \u003ci\u003eScotland\u003c\/i\u003e is the definitive history of a country that has experienced centuries of dramatic change.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMichael Lynch, named as ''one of the most influential historians in Scotland of the last thirty years'', has penned an extraordinary one-volume history of the country that spans twenty centuries, from the Picts to the present day. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThrilling, comprehensive, provocative and timely, \u003ci\u003eScotland\u003c\/i\u003e is a monumental work of scholarship.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIt's a book that seems more like a multi-volume history, so sweeping is it; yet lucid and captivating even in detailed areas... Fundamental to Lynch's approach is a sense of connection between \u003ci\u003enow \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003ethen\u003c\/i\u003e, however far back; he continuously shows how Scottish identity refashions its heroes and myths, yet clings to survival -- Douglas Gifford\u003cbr\u003eA monumental achievement * Times Literary Supplement *\u003cbr\u003eBreathtaking and absorbing * Scottish Field *\u003cbr\u003eFascinating...it ought to be compulsory reading for all MPs, journalists and commentators before they were permitted to talk about European economic and political union -- Tom Wilkie * Independent *","brand":"Vintage","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48736038486359,"sku":"9780712698931","price":21.25,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780712698931.jpg?v=1723810471","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/lynch-m-scotland-9780712698931","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}