The study of modern Scottish history / T.M. Devine and Jenny Wormald

pt. I. Some fundamentals of modern Scottish history. Land and sea: the environment / T.C. Smout

The demographic factor / Michael Anderson

Mythical Scotland / Colin Kidd and James Coleman

Religion and society to c.1900 / Stewart J. Brown

The literary tradition / Cairns Craig

The clearances and the transformation of the Scottish countryside / Robert Dodgshon

A global diaspora / T.M. Devine

pt. II. Reformation, regal union, and civil wars, 1500-c.1680. The Renaissance / Andrea Thomas

Reformed and Godly Scotland? / Jenny Wormald

The 'rise' of the state? / Laura A.M. Stewart

Reappraising the early modern economy, 1500-1650 / T.M. Devine

Scotland restored and reshaped: politics and religion, c.1660-1712 / Alasdair Raffe

The early modern family / Elizabeth Ewan

The seventeenth-century Irish connection / Patrick Fitzgerald

pt. III. Union and enlightenment, c.1680-1760. New perspectives on pre-union Scotland / Karin Bowie

Migrant destinations, 1500-1750 / Steve Murdoch and Esther Mijers

Union historiographies / Clare Jackson

Scottish Jacobitism in its international context / Daniel Szechi

The rise (and fall?) of the Scottish enlightenment / Alexander Broadie

The barbarous North? Criminality in early modern Scotland / Anne-Marie Kilday

pt. IV. The nation transformed, 1760-1914. Industrialization and the Scottish people / Stana Nenadic

Scotland and the eighteenth-century empire / Douglas Hamilton

The challenge of radicalism to 1832 / Gordon Pentland

The Scottish cities / Richard Rodger

Identity within the union state, 1800-1900 / Graeme Morton

Immigrants / Ben Braber

The Scottish diaspora since 1815 / Angela McCarthy

The impact of the Victorian Empire / Esther Breitenbach

pt. V. The great war to the new millennium, 1914-2010. The great war / E.W. McFarland

The interwar crisis: the failure of extremism / Richard J. Finlay

The religious factor / Graham Walker

Gender and nationhood in modern Scottish historiography / Catriona M.M. Macdonald

The stateless nation and the British state since 1918 / Ewen A. Cameron

Challenging the union / Iain McLean

A new Scotland?: the economy / G.C. Peden

A new Scotland?: society and culture / David McCrone.