This is the first book to take a comprehensive view of the historical
geography of Scotland since the Union. The period is divided into
sections separated by the Napoleonic Wars and the First World War, and
each section offers a general view followed by detailed studies giving a
balanced coverage of regional and urban-rural criteria, and the economic
infrastructure. The book contains a number of original researches and Dr
Turnock attempts to set the Scottish experience in a framework of
general ideas on modernisation.