The Scots and the Union : : Then and Now /

The Scots and the Union : : Then and Now / / Christopher Whatley.

The cornerstone text on the Union between Scotland and England, brought up-to-date in the face of debates on present-day independenceGBS_insertPreviewButtonPopup(['ISBN:9780748680269','ISBN:9780748680276','ISBN:9780748680283']);This book traces the background to the Tre...

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Whatley, Christopher,
Place / Publishing House:Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022]
©2014
Year of Publication:2022
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (480 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • List of plates
  • Note on style and abbreviations
  • 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 1690s: a nation in crisis
  • 5. ‘The most neglected if not opprest State in Europe’? Confrontations and the search for compromise, 1700–5
  • 6. Digging Scotland out: Parliament and the reconstruction of the pathway towards union, 1705–6
  • 7. 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
  • 10. Union now
  • Appendices
  • Select bibliography
  • Index

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