The Scots and the UnionEdinburgh University Press, 2006 - 424 páginas An updated edition on the 1707 Union between Scotland and England in a modern context The Scots and the Union: Then and Now is a refreshed, revised and extended edition of The Scots and the Union, which appeared in 2006. It was acclaimed then as a path-breaking, game-changing account of the making of the United Kingdom, and the Scots' part in this. Winner of the Saltire Society's prestigious Scottish History Book of the Year prize, it successfully challenged accounts of the process that alleged that the union was brought about by English bullying and the venality of Scottish politicians 'bought and sold for English gold'. This new edition not only provides readers with an essential explanation of why and how Scotland became part of the United Kingdom, but brings the historical debate into a vigorous present with an additional section. An explanation is provided as to why the union is less strong in 2014 than it was in the 1950s and also why, in comparison with citizens in some other smaller European nations which have become independent states in recent times, large numbers of Scots seem reluctant to see the end of Britain. This new edition is the key background text for anyone wishing to explore how we got to the position where we are once again debating union issues and opinions, lending historical weight and context to the arguments for and against union. Key Features:
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... feared , as this , they were convinced , would lead the burghs to support the union . 159 Yet by the end of the seventeenth century few of the royal burghs in Scotland were enjoying the pros- perity they had known earlier . As we will ...
... feared the place would soon become ' a ruinous heap of stones'.103 St Andrews may have slipped back even further , the ' signall instance ' of this being ' that one of the principall streets where the old Colledge [ sic ] stands is from ...
... feared , anarchy would have resulted ; agreement over the succession would have been dead in the water . Wiser heads feared a return to the events of 1641 , when the Scots had imposed a new constitution on Charles I that had limited ...
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Issues debates and aims | 23 |
ambition and achievement and the aftermath of | 104 |
a nation in crisis | 139 |
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