The money’s still out there
Neal Ascherson: The Scottish Empire, 6 October 2011
To the Ends of the Earth: Scotland’s Global Diaspora, 1750-2010
by T.M. Devine.
Allen Lane, 397 pp., £25, August 2011,978 0 7139 9744 6 Show More
by T.M. Devine.
Allen Lane, 397 pp., £25, August 2011,
The Inner Life of Empires: An 18th-Century History
by Emma Rothschild.
Princeton, 483 pp., £24.95, June 2011,978 0 691 14895 3 Show More
by Emma Rothschild.
Princeton, 483 pp., £24.95, June 2011,
“... already underway. Synoptic histories, serious but highly readable, were reappearing as Ash wrote: Rosalind Mitchison, T.C. Smout and Christopher Harvie were among the most successful authors. They wrote mostly narrative or social history, revealing unknown territory to generations who had learned almost nothing of Scotland’s past at ... ”