The Case for the Enlightenment is a comparative study of the emergence of Enlightenment
in Scotland and in Naples. Challenging the tendency to fragment the Enlightenment in …

This book analyses the origins, development and impact of British Army recruiting in the
Scottish Highlands in the period from 1739 to 1815. It examines the interaction of …

What was life like for Irish Protestants between the mid-seventeenth and the late-eighteenth
centuries? In an account filled with entertaining episodes and memorable characters, Toby …

Field Marshal Alexander Leslie was the highest ranking commander from the British Isles to
serve in the Thirty Years' War. Though Leslie's life provides the thread that runs through this …

This volume examines the role and significance of Scottish soldiers in France in the age of
the Sun King, Louis XIV. The study examines the complex relationship of expatriate Scottish …

Despite the wealth of British Civil Wars studies, little work addresses the nature of military
leadership effectiveness in terms of the eventual result-parliamentary victory. It is no longer …

Het Amsterdams Centrum voor de Studie van de Gouden Eeuw, gevestigd aan de Faculteit
der Geesteswetenschappen van de UvA, bevordert sinds 2000 de kennis van de …

The introduction of the military revolution into armies of the British Isles by officers and
soldiers who had served in mainland European armies during the religious and dynastic …

This article responds to and is designed as a counterweight to recent work on political
history in early-modern Scotland in which Jacobitism has been persuasively portrayed as a …

Instead of regarding the Britannic union as the moment when Scottish political autonomy
was fatally compromised, Julian Goodare describes how Crown and Parliament worked …