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512 pages, Hardcover
First published September 27, 2022
[There are now] five times as many Scots by birth or descent in the world as live in the country
The ‘first known British-flagged army in history’ was deployed on James’s authority in 1610, and ‘a Regiment of Britons’ (the majority of whom were Scots…
There were only fifty Scots in London in 1567… the total number of Scots in the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth ranged as high as 40,000.
The Scotland of this study articulated itself distinctly in terms of its foundation myth and national story and its literary relationship to the classical and European generic and canonical traditions. It inflected and interpreted external influences – Dutch, French, English – towards its own specific conditions, and its people articulated themselves in national terms wherever they were in the world, performing identity in diaspora.