Table of Contents

1 Scotland Emerges 1

2 The Wars of Independence 17

3 Reformation and the War of the Three Kingdoms 32

4 Union, Jacobites and Popular Unrest 51

5 Enlightenment and Capitalism 68

Rebel Lives: Robert Burns 79

6 Radicals and Chartists 83

7 The Highland Clearances and Resistance 107

8 Scotland in the Nineteenth Century 117

Rebel Lives: James Connolly 138

9 The Clyde Runs Red 142

Rebel Lives: John Maclean 159

10 The 1920s: Economic Decline and General Strike 164

Rebel Lives: Helen Crawfurd 188

11 The Great Depression: Suffering and Resistance 192

Rebel Lives: Hugh MacDiarmid 214

12 World War II arid After 220

Rebel Lives: Mary Brooksbank 240

13 The 1970s: When Workers Won 244

14 The Thatcher Years 256

15 Twenty-First-Century Scotland 293

Conclusion: Our Destiny Is In Our Hands 316

Acknowledgements 327

Notes 329

Index 363