![]() The revisionist school catalogues the disproportionate contributions of Scots in a global diaspora, identifying decisive contributions in key sectors of the modern world. At best, it was a shared national history, wrapped within the emergence of modern, imperial Britain. The new historiography looks to provide an alternative history of Scotland, moving away from one-dimensional cultural sentimentality and a deficit model depicting Scotland as simply politically barren after 1707 and the Act of Union with England. This re-interpretation has taken place at the same time as the nationalist movement for independence has reached its contemporary zenith. From the 1960s, Scotland has presented an academic pulse revealing a revisionist history and a re-calibration of its global significance. The fact that Scotland only looked to recapture its political form in the late twentieth century emphasises that this is an existential study of Scots, not of Scotland. Imperial Scotland wasn’t built in a day! According to Murray Pittock it took four centuries, beginning in the seventeenth century and ending only in the 1970s, superseded by nationalist demands for an independent nation-state. Wardle, former Principal of York St John University and James Watt College of Further and Higher Education. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2022, xiv + 485 pp. ![]() Scotland: The Global History, 1603 to the Present. Scotland: The Global History, 1603 to the Present Author(s):
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