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Introduction; Prologue: National identity in late medieval and earlymodern Scotland; Part I. The End of the Tradition: 1. History, nationalidentity and the union of 1707; 2. Presbyterian historiography and the age ofWodow; 3. Scottish whig historiography, 1707-c.1750; Part II. Disenchantment:4. The decline of the ancient Scottish constitution; 5. Faultlines inScotland's unusable past; 6. Presbyterianism and whig historiography in theage of Robertson; 7. The Scottish construction of Anglo-British identity;Part III. Critical Renewal: 8. Enlightened reconstructions: The routes ofJames Macpherson and Gilbert Stuart; 9. History and national identity in theage of Scott; Conclusion.