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■ #6218. イラスト入りスコットランド史の本 [scotland][history][scottish_history][review][toc][timeline]

　何度目かのスコットランド滞在中で，改めてスコットランドの歴史を振り返っておきたいと思っていた．アバディーンの書店にふらっと立ち寄り，スコットランド関連の棚に平積みされていたのが，こちらの本である．
　比較的新しいスコットランド史の本で，2019年に出版されたものの2024年版を売り出し中の￡7.99で購入した．ポケットサイズ（とはいえ，イギリス流の「ポケットサイズ」なので，全352ページと重厚でポケットには入らない）で読みやすく，何よりも200以上のイラストが含まれているというのに惹かれた．本を開いてい見ると，予想以上にイラスト，地図，写真などの図版が豊富だ．現代のスコットランドの風景写真も多く含まれているので．絵はがきや写真集を買うよりも良いのではないかと思われるほどだ．
　原則として1節が見開き2ページと短く，すいすい読み進めることができた．時代的には中石器時代から2023年の政治状況までをカバーしている．本文のほかには，用語集，推薦図書，索引が付いている．年表が付されていないのが残念だが，節立てが細かいので目次がそのまま略年表となっていると理解することもできるだろう．以下，目次を掲載する．

Introduction

Mesolithic Hunters and Fishermen
Neolithic Farmers
Stone Circles and Alignments
Beaker People
The Bronze Age
Iron Age
Celtic Migrations
Crannogs
Brochs
Duns, Souterrains and Wheelhouses
Roman Period, AD 80--401
Mons Graupius
Occupation of Southern Scotland to AD 105
The Antonine Wall
Campaigns of Septimius Severus
Final Roman Campaigns in Scotland
The Coming of Christianity, 397--664
Patrick and Columba
St Kentigern
Missionary Activity
The Synod of Whitby
The Peoples of Scotland
The Britons of Strathclyde
The Scots of Dalriada
The Angles of Bernicia
Nechtansmere, 685
Norse Invasions
Kenneth MacAlpin
The Emergence of Scotland, 844--1034
The Battle of Brunanburh, 934
Carham
The Conquest of Lothian, 1018--34
Development of English Influence
Macbeth, 1040--57
Malcolm III Canmore, 1057--93
Queen Margaret
English Clergy and Court
Anglicisation of the Scottish Church
Anglicisation of the Administrative System
Introduction of the Feudal System
David I, 1124--53
The Battle of the Standard, 1138
Malcolm the Maiden, 1153--65
The Treaty of Falaise, 1174
William the Lion, 1165--1214
Alexander II, 1214--49
Alexander III, 1249--86
The Battle of Largs, 1263
The Maid of Norway
Competition for the Throne
Claims of English Overlordship
John Balliol, 1292--96
William Wallace
Robert Bruce, 1306--29
Bannockburn, 1314
Declaration of Arbroath, 1320
Treaty of Northampton, 1328
David II, 1329--71
Halidon Hill, 1333
David II in France, 1334--41
The Auld Alliance
Neville's Cross, 1346
The Release of David II
Robert II, 1371--90
Robert III, 1390--1406
Albany, Rothesay and the Regency
Robert, Duke of Albany, 1406--20
St Andrews University
A Parliamentary System Established
James I, 1437--60
James II, 1460--88
Sauchieburn, 1488
James IV, 1488--1513
The Union of the Thistle and the Rose, 1503
Flodden, 1513
James V, 1513--42
Mary, Queen of Scots
Mary in France, 1548--61
The Regency of the Queen Mother
The Reformation
Mary's Personal Rule, 1561--67
The Murders of Riccio and Darnley
Bothwell
Lochleven and Langside
Mary in England, 1568--87
James VI and I
The Ruthven Raid, 1582
James and Elizabeth
James and Spain
Religious Unrest, 1584--96
Further Plots and Conspiracies, 1587--1600
Union of the Crowns, 1603
Victory over the Church
Laud's Liturgy
The National Covenant, 1638
The Bishops' Wars, 1639--41
The Solemn League and Covenant, 1642
The Scots in the English Civil War
Agreement between the Scots and Charles I
Preston, 1648
Charles II Lands in Scotland
Dunbar, 1650
Scotland Under Military Occupation, 1651--60
The Restoration
Drumclog and Bothwell Bridge, 1679
The Killing Time, 1680--88
James VII and II, 1685--88
Killiecrankie and Dunkeld, 1689
The Religious Settlement, 1690
The Massacre at Glencoe, 1692
The Darien Scheme, 1698--1700
Proposals for Union, 1702--03
Act of Union, 1707
Rise of Jacobitism, 1708
Hanoverian Accession: George I, 1714--27
The Jacobite Rebellions of 1715
Wade's Military Roads
The Highland Forts
The Black Watch
George II, 1727--60
The Porteous Riots, 1736
Bonnie Prince Charlie
Falkirk and Culloden, 1745--46
Aftermath of Rebellion
The Destruction of the Clan System
The Highland Regiments
Industrial Progress
Agricultural Improvements
Social Changes
Henry Dundas, 1775--1801
The Friends of the People
The Downfall of Dundas
The Age of Enlightenment
The Highland Clearances
The Industrial Revolution
The Radical War, 1819--20
Burgh and Parliamentary Reform
Chartism in Scotland
The Great Disruption, 1843
Religious Division
The Development of Heavy Engineering, 1840--1900
Shipbuilding
Tourism
The Crofters' Commission, 1886
Emigration and Immigration
Changes in Local and Central Government
The Birth of Socialism, 1890--1914
Edwardian Scotland
The First World War, 1914--18
Red Clydeside
Postwar Depression
The Rise of Scottish Nationalism
The Local Government Act, 1929
Special Areas
The Second World War
The New Towns
The Scottish Economy
Local Government Acts 1973 and 1994
Resurgence of Nationalism
The Thatcher and Major Years
Devolution and the Scottish Parliament
The Independence Referendum and the Future

Glossary
Recommended Reading
Picture Credits & Acknowledgments
Index

　・ Mackay, James, ed. Pocket Scottish History: Story of a Nation. Broxburn: Lomond, 2024.

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