Scots and the UnionEdinburgh University Press, 14 de abr. de 2014 - 480 páginas 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 inaugur |
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... England as they were three hundred years ago. This was in the weeks immediately preceding May , the day when the Act of Union between Scotland and England came into force. 'Sawney Scot' was more often an object of contempt and ...
... England as they were three hundred years ago. This was in the weeks immediately preceding May , the day when the Act of Union between Scotland and England came into force. 'Sawney Scot' was more often an object of contempt and ...
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... England and then Scotland were offered to the Dutchman, William, Prince of Orange and his wife Mary – one of the departed king's daughters. Her sister, Anne, would eventually succeed William, in . The Glorious Revolution of ...
... England and then Scotland were offered to the Dutchman, William, Prince of Orange and his wife Mary – one of the departed king's daughters. Her sister, Anne, would eventually succeed William, in . The Glorious Revolution of ...
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... England – Jacobites (from the Latin word for James, Jacobus) – whose ambition was to overturn the Revolution that had brought William and Mary to the thrones of the three kingdoms. The Revolution settlement, as well as the Protestant ...
... England – Jacobites (from the Latin word for James, Jacobus) – whose ambition was to overturn the Revolution that had brought William and Mary to the thrones of the three kingdoms. The Revolution settlement, as well as the Protestant ...
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... England,and about nine times more than the Low Countries.Seventeenth-century Europe comprised a series of expanding, competing composite monarchies, although the manner in which the component parts were moulded together varied. At one ...
... England,and about nine times more than the Low Countries.Seventeenth-century Europe comprised a series of expanding, competing composite monarchies, although the manner in which the component parts were moulded together varied. At one ...
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... England from onwards. This was when the Scots had proposed a commercial union, although prior to that the covenanters had made several attempts to obtain free trade with England. Even the Act of Security was in part a ...
... England from onwards. This was when the Scots had proposed a commercial union, although prior to that the covenanters had made several attempts to obtain free trade with England. Even the Act of Security was in part a ...
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ambition and achievement and the aftermath of the Revolution | 104 |
a nation in crisis | 139 |
5 The most neglected if not opprest State in Europe? Confrontations and the search for compromise 17005 | 184 |
Parliament and the reconstruction of the pathway towards union 17056 | 224 |
the union commissioners and the hearts and minds of the people | 243 |
the union Parliament and the Scottish nation | 274 |
9 Union in the balance union accomplished | 322 |
Appendix A Membership of the Council of Trade elected 1705 voting record foragainst the court in the thirty recorded divisions in the union Parlia... | 381 |
Bibliography | 392 |
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