Looking for a book on Scottish history

[KFCarter]

Lots of people enjoy John Prebble's, Culloden. It is well-written, and well-researched. He recognizes the sad plight of the Highlanders at and after Culloden, the winds of change that had already started, and does not advocate the Jacobite cause in any way. As a socialist, his sympathy with the people's cause may have won him some enemies, I'm not sure, but some historians seem to have taken issue with his work.

Another very interesting book by Prebble is "Darien; The Scottish Dream of Empire".

[bdkilted]

I agree that Scotland, by Magnuson is very good.
I have also read "Tales of a Scottish Grandfather; From Bannockburn to Flodden" by Sir Walter Scott,
and just finished "Periods of Highland History" by I.F. Grant and Hugh Cheape. It was good, but a bit dry and dealt with mostly the western clans.