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PREFACE
This record of the social and industrial evolution of Scotland in the
eighteenth and the nineteenth centuries, placed against a background of
world history, is intended for use in Advanced Divisions and in
Secondary Schools. It is intended particularly for use in those areas
where the history curriculum of the primary school finishes with the
seventeenth century, and by those pupils who, either in the Advanced
Division or in the Secondary School, are receiving what is presumably
their last formal instruction in History. For such pupils it is
essential that any text-book of permanent value should perform two
functions : it should, in the first place, give them some idea of the
leading features of the growth of the Scotland they see around them, and
of the modern world-system of which Scotland forms a part; it should, in
the second place, open before young readers vistas that will encourage
them to undertake independent exploration. These aspects of the
requirements of a history book for Advanced Divisions and Secondary
Schools I have kept constantly before me in the planning and the writing
of this volume.
A small part of the sections dealing with Scotland has
already made an appeal to readers outside schools, and to the editors of the
periodicals in which the studies originally appeared—the Scots Magazine, the
Scottish Educational Journal, and the Quarterly Bulletin of the Educational
Institute of Scotland. I am indebted for courteous and cordial permission to
include them in this volume.
GEORGE PRATT INSH.
" Ardenvohr,"
Bothwell, Lanarkshire,
April 1932.
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