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Author: James Mackinnon
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Category : Scotland
Languages : en
Pages : 556
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Author: James Mackinnon
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Category : Scotland
Languages : en
Pages : 556
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Author: Leith Davis
Publisher: Stanford University Press
ISBN: 9780804732697
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 240
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This book explores the political relationship between Scotland and England as it was negotiated in literature after the 1707 Act of Union. It is built around five discursive encounters between Scottish and English writers: Daniel Defoe-?Lord Belhaven, Tobias Smollett-?Henry Fielding, James Macpherson-?Samuel Johnson, William Wordsworth-?Robert Burns, and Walter Scott-?Thomas Percy.
Author: Bruce Galloway
Publisher: Edinburgh : J. Donald ; Atlantic Highlands, N.J. : Distributed in the U.S.A. and Canada by Humanities Press
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Category : England
Languages : en
Pages : 218
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Author: Daniel Defoe
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Category : England
Languages : en
Pages : 928
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Author: Albert Venn Dicey
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Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 432
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Author: Patrick William Joseph Riley
Publisher: Manchester University Press
ISBN: 9780719007279
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 376
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Author: Daniel Defoe
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Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 928
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Author: S J Brown
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
ISBN: 0748679898
Category : Scotland
Languages : en
Pages : 192
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This collection brings together a series of papers that in May 2007 were presented at a Royal Society of Edinburgh conference organised to mark the 300th anniversary of the Union of 1707. One of the guiding objectives of the RSE event was to showcase the work of younger historians, and to present new work that would provide fresh insights on this defining moment in Scotland's (and the United Kingdom's) history. The seven chapters range widely, in content and coverage, from a detailed study of how the Church of Scotland viewed union and how concerns about the Kirk influenced the voting behaviour in the Scottish Parliament, through to the often overlooked broader European context in which the British parliamentary union - only one form of new state formation in the early modern period - was forged. The global War of the Spanish Succession, it is cogently argued, influenced both the timing and shape of the British union. Also examined are elite thinking and public opinion on fundamental questions such as Scottish nationhood and the place and powers of monarchs, as well as burning issues of the time such as the Company of Scotland, and trade. Other topics include an investigation of the particular intellectual characteristics of the Scots, a product of the pre-Union educational system, which it is argued enabled professionals and entrepreneurs in Scotland to meet the challenges posed by the 1707 settlement. As one of the contributors argues, union offered the Scots only partial openings within the empire.
Author: Daniel Defoe
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Languages : en
Pages : 924
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Author: Prof. Christopher A Whatley
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
ISBN: 0748628762
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 440
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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 by the church of Rome, and the real one represented by the Stuart pretender, loomed large in the consciousnesses of Scots who sought union. The principles of the Glorious Revolution, and the persistence from that time on of key political figures in Scotland in their determination to secure a treaty with England were crucial. Unionists too concerned themselves with Scotland's ailing economy, and aspired to the kind of civic society that Holland had become and that they saw in London. They were as patriotic as many of their opponents and believed that union offered the Scots what they were unable to obtain as a small independent state, with the country's interests defended with what John Clerk called Scotland's 'phantom' Parliament. The complex and shifting opinions of the Scottish people outside Parliament are also examined, as well as the effect this had on proceedings within. Key featuresNew controversial interpretation - challenges currently dominant view that the Scots were 'bought and sold for English gold', and bullied into union with England. Wide-ranging; topic coverage comprehensive - looks more widely at Scottish society and its economy, culture etc. than the competitionTimely/topical: contemporary interest in this event in Scottish/British history, especially 2007
