Discovering the Scottish Revolution, 1692-1746.(Book Review)

Neil Davidson. Discovering the Scottish Revolution 1692-1746. Sterling, Va.: Pluto Press; dist. by Stylus Publishing, Dulles, Va. 2003. Pp. xix, 378. $24.95 paper. ISBN 0-7453-2053-8.

Neil Davidson opens this book from an address in Leith, a community that the late Gordon Donaldson, Historiographer Royal for Scotland (a Leith man), always insisted was an exploited and abused colonial dependency of its former feudal superior, Edinburgh. Davidson is a Marxist; indeed was an active member of the now happily defunct Northern Marxists Historians Group, and this ambitious and interesting ...

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