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For younger readers

Lace, William W. Scotland. Lucent, 2000. For readers in grades 5 to 8.

Meyer, Carolyn. Mary, Bloody Mary. Harcourt Brace, 1999. A sympathetic account. For middle school and high school readers.

Stein, R. Conrad. Scotland. Scholastic, 2001. For readers in grades 6 to 9.

Scotland: History

Black, Jeremy. A History of the British Isles. 2nd ed. St. Martin's, 2003. Examines the history of England, Scotland, Wales, and Ireland.

Houston, R. A. Social Change in the Age of Enlightenment: Edinburgh, 1660-1760. Oxford University Press, 1995. A study of social conditions in Edinburgh in the late 17th and early 18th centuries.

Houston, R. A., and W. W. Knox, eds. New Penguin History of Scotland: From the Earliest Times to the Present Day. Penguin, 2002. Covers 8,000 years of Scottish history.

Maclean, Fitzroy, and Magnos Linklater. Scotland: A Concise History. Rev. ed. Thames & Hudson, 2001. An illustrated work that illuminates the richness of Scotland's past.

Paterson, Lindsay. The Autonomy of Modern Scotland. Edinburgh University Press, 1995. Study of Scottish politics since 1707.

Tabraham, Chris, and Colin Baxter. The Illustrated History of Scotland. Oyster Press, 2004. Informed text with excellent illustrations.

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Scotland: Politics, Society, and Culture

Ascherson, Neil. Stone Voices: The Search for Scotland. Hill & Wang, 2003, 2004. A journalist's search for the character of his native land.

Brown, Alice; David McCrone; and Lindsay Paterson. Politics and Society in Scotland. St. Martin's, 1996. Examination of Scotland's political culture.

Buchan, James. Crowded with Genius: The Scottish Enlightenment: Edinburgh's Moment of the Mind. HarperCollins, 2003. Lively intellectual history of 18th-century Edinburgh.

Gifford, Douglas, and others. Scottish Literature. Edinburgh University Press, 2002. Introduction to Scottish literature from the medieval to the modern periods.

Herman, Arthur. How the Scots Invented the Modern World. Crown, Three Rivers, 2001. 2002. Accessible volume on the contributions of Scotland to medicine, philosophy, education, commerce, and many other fields.

Paterson, Lindsay. The Autonomy of Modern Scotland. Edinburgh University Press, 1995. Study of Scottish politics since 1707.

Stewart, M. A., ed. Studies in the Philosophy of the Scottish Enlightenment. Oxford University Press, 1990. Essays on the Enlightenment philosophy in Scotland during the 18th century.

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