UID:
edocfu_9959238412302883
Format:
1 online resource (441 p.)
ISBN:
0-7486-7227-3
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1-280-64320-X
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9786610643202
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0-7486-2876-2
Content:
This book traces the background to the Treaty of Union of 1707, explains why it happened and assesses its impact on Scottish society, including the bitter struggle with the Jacobites for acceptance of the union in the two decades that followed its inauguration. The book offers a radical new interpretation of the causes of union. The idea that the Scots were 'bought and sold for English gold' is largely rejected. Instead, emphasis is placed upon the international, dynastic and religious contexts in which the union was negotiated. The aggressive France of Louis XIV, the imagined threat posed
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Description based upon print version of record.
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COVER; Contents; Note on style and abbreviations; Plates; Acknowledgements; Preface; Introduction: contrasting and changing receptions of the union of 1707; 1 Issues, debates and aims; 2 Scotland under the union of the crowns to the Revolution of 1688-9: searching for the roots of union; 3 Roots of union: ambition and achievement and the aftermath of the Revolution; 4 The 1690's: a nation in crisis; 5 'The most neglected if not opprest State in Europe'? Confrontations and the search for compromise, 1700-5
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6 Digging Scotland out: Parliament and the reconstruction of the pathway towards union, 1705-67 Paving the way: the union commissioners and the hearts and minds of the people; 8 'An affair of the greatest concern and import': the union Parliament and the Scottish nation; 9 Union in the balance, union accomplished; Appendix A Membership of the Council of Trade, elected 1705 (voting record for/against the court in the thirty recorded divisions in the union Parliament, 1706-7); Bibliography;
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English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-7486-3470-3
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-7486-1685-3
Language:
English
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