In this distinguished and comprehensive work Professor J. D. Mackie - who occupied the Chair of Scottish History and Literature at the University of Glasgow - traces the growth of a people who successively kept at bay both the Romans and the English and who have pursued an economic, religious and constitutional development independent of their neighbours. For the Second Edition, Bruce Lenman and Geoffrey Parker have brought Professor Mackie's text fully up to date, including extensive revisions to two chapters, 'Victorian Scotland' and