Scotland in the age of two revolutions /

The seventeenth century was one of the most dramatic periods in Scotland's history, with two political revolutions, intense religious strife culminating in the beginnings of toleration, and the modernisation of the state and its infrastructure. This book focuses on the history that the Scots th...

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Other Authors: Adams, Sharon (Historian) (Editor), Goodare, Julian (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Woodbridge, Suffolk, UK : The Boydell Press, 2014.
Series:Studies in early modern cultural, political and social history ; v. 20.
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